11 Companion Gardening Ideas to Banish Pests

11 Companion Gardening Ideas to Banish Pests

Insects are often such a pain – especially when they are in your garden and all you want to do is protect the food you are growing. How do you get rid of these pesky invaders without a ton of insecticides? And can you do something, even here in Southwest...

Harvesting a giant zucchini

I harvested our first zucchini today from our Fordhook (Burpee) plants. It’s a whopping 3 pounds (1.5 kilos), 10 inches long and 4 inches across at the biggest part!! I grated about 1/3 of it and made zucchini bread (which takes about 2 cups grated zucchini) and...

Harvesting green goodies

We got to harvest a few more things from our garden last week…it’s always an exciting time. But it can be tedious when it comes to things like berries, especially gooseberries. They grow all over the bush and you really have to climb up, down and around...