Q&A: How do I know how much water my plants need?
Watering can be one of the trickiest parts to growing food. Watering too often can lead to oxygen-starved roots, and too little water can lead to wilted and dead plants.
Apricots: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Apricot trees are a great, unique addition to your garden! They will do best when planted with another apricot tree to help pollinate each other. Apricot trees are hardier than its other relatives, but still thrive in a moderate climate that doesn’t get too hot or too cold (zones 4-10).
How To Make Homemade Guacamole
Our daughter wanted to create her own blog post for this recipe that she came up with herself! The following was written by her! 🙂 “I came up with this recipe myself trying to make a fun dip for my family while we watch football. And when they tried it they told me you should make a blog post over your guacamole. I said you’re right I should take the stuff I know and put […]
OKC: How to Start Growing Your Own Food @ Myriad Botanical Gardens on Saturday, Feb. 29, 10 am
Come join us at Myriad Botanical Gardens for a class about everything you need to how about how to start growing your own food on February 29, 2020!
Chamomile: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Chamomile is not only a beautiful addition to your garden with its ‘daisy-like’ white and yellow flowers, but is great for its usefulness as a companion plant. Chamomile helps to repel pests from neighboring plants because of its strong smell. This blog post talks about how you can plant and grow your own chamomile with our free mobile app!
Cilantro/Coriander: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Cilantro is one of our most commonly used herbs in the kitchen. If you let it go to seed, you can get a second herb from the same plant: coriander! Both versions of this plant will give your dish a tasty kick!
How to Manage Earwigs!
The most characteristic feature of this fast-moving reddish-brown to black insect is the pair of approximately an inch long pincers at the tip of a long abdomen. Earwigs thrive in tight, dark, moist places such as under stones, in mulch, soil, (compost & vermicompost bins), and anywhere there is an accumulation of plant debris.
Why We Grow Different Types of Beans & How We Use Them
We grow a variety of different types of beans throughout the year. We pretty much are growing a version of peas and beans year round where we live!
Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup
This Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup recipe is a great addition to your cold-weather meal ideas. We usually have an abundance of sweet potatoes that we grow in our garden around this time so this recipe works great to add in a lot of our fresh ingredients from the garden!
Add Healthy Herbs & Veggies Into Your Pasta Sauce!
Pasta sauce is probably one of the easiest things to sneak in some extra nutrients without your kids noticing! 🙂 We put a plethora of herbs and vegetables into our sauce without our kids even knowing!