5 Ways to Lengthen Your Growing Season

5 Ways to Lengthen Your Growing Season

Here in South Florida, we’re just getting our primary growing season going because the summer fight against the weeds is too much for many gardeners. But as fall approaches in many other parts of the world, gardeners are now asking themselves how they can get at...
{Garden Life} Get your garden started

{Garden Life} Get your garden started

Happy Friday everyone! The sun is shining here and it’s a beautiful Friday…but I don’t know whether or not I’ll be spending much time in the garden today because (a) it’s been quite chilly the last couple days and (b) I slipped while...
{Garden Life} Garden Planning Pinspiration

{Garden Life} Garden Planning Pinspiration

There have been some really useful things coming across my screen lately when it comes to planning your garden for spring — which I know will be just around the corner despite this wildly cold spell we are having here in Germany right now. Thinking of spring and...
E. coli and growing your own

E. coli and growing your own

The last few weeks of shopping here in Germany have been interesting. You’ve likely heard by now that in Germany there has been an Escherichia coli (my favorite bacteria, BTW, because of the amusing name) outbreak and for about two weeks now, no one has had a...