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by Julia Dimakos | Nov 24, 2020 | Gardening Tips, Garden Updates, Video
Also known as “leaf mold”, leaf compost is the result of leaving your fallen leaves to decompose for a period of time. In the end, you are left with a beautiful black compost that is ready to be added to your vegetable garden. It’s free, 100% natural...
by Julia Dimakos | Nov 18, 2020 | Vegetable Gardening, Gardening Tips, Vegetables
If you’ve never grown nor tasted parsnips, you don’t know what you’re missing! Although parsnips look like white carrots, they are not the same. Parsnips are traditionally synonymous with Thanksgiving dinners, Christmas and many comforting fall...
by Julia Dimakos | Nov 15, 2020 | Vegetable Gardening, Gardening Tips, Vegetables
When people typically think of fall in a zone 5 garden, they usually think of the end of the gardening season. The time when we pull out plants and put the garden to bed. However, the fall season need not be the end of the garden. Sure, summer veggies like tomatoes...
by Julia Dimakos | Jul 14, 2020 | Gardening Tips, Vegetable Gardening, Vegetables
There’s nothing easier and more fun than growing your own salad mix! Grow salads outside your back door, in a planter, raised bed, pot or directly in the ground. Whichever way you grow them, harvest as you need thereby allowing for a continuous supply of fresh...
by Julia Dimakos | Jun 10, 2020 | DIY, Gardening Tips, Recipes
Sweet violets (Viola odorata) are a lovely, low-lying purple flower that blooms in the spring. Found in shady to partially shady locations, they are called sweet violets because of their delicate sweet aroma. One incredible feature of this flower is its vibrant...
by Julia Dimakos | May 11, 2020 | DIY, Gardening Tips, Vegetable Gardening
Over the years of vegetable gardening, I used thousands of plastic plant markers to label my seedlings. Occasionally I got lucky and the sun faded one, allowing me to reuse it. However for the rest, I always struggled to get the marker off the tags, rendering them...
