Plant and Soil Care When you've worked hard all spring and summer to cultivate a beautiful flower or vegetable garden, it can be tough to see the growing season winding down—especially if you're a beginner outdoor gardener who's been enjoying their first year of...
So you've probably noticed the massive shortage of gardening posts these days when we should be ankle deep in produce. Our aquaponics system is doing ok but our tomatoes still have a ways to go before they turn red. I really hope they start turning soon because the...
I mentioned a while back that we were thinking about digging up a bunch of the pavers in our courtyard and putting in some new growing beds. Although I haven't mentioned much more about, we have been thinking about how to realize this plan and finally found the...
I talked a little bit yesterday about the different types of aquaponics growing media that are available for consideration. As I mentioned, we went with expanded clay pebbles (4-16mm big) which were actually made exactly for this purpose. The exact pebbles we got are...
It's been a while since I talked about our aquaponics system, but we have indeed been working on it and it's actually running very well. We've had our beds filled and even have plants in it but I putting the events down in words has taken a while longer. When building...
My dearest fellow gardeners, Welcome to a new year of gardening! Whether you've been gardening for a while or are just getting started or have never even planted one seed in your life, I have a feeling that 2012 is going to be an outstanding year. Today I wanted to...
You get to hear a lot about me, our farm and our garden here every day, but I know so many of you are doing fantastic things at home, in your own gardens, and I would really love to hear about it. There are so many great ideas floating around and I'll never be able to...
I know you've been reading the word "aquaponics" a lot lately on this blog and I don't think I've really explained what it is. So in case you're curious but just lack the time or sincere interest to go learn more about what it is and why people love it, I'm going to...
Wild garlic (Allium ursinum AKA bear’s garlic, ramsons or Bärlauch in German) is a wonderful chive cousin that we’re lucky to have growing in our courtyard and a bit in our garden too. At Mackenzie’s christening dinner, we were served a wild garlic soup that was just...
You may have seen me mention Growing Edge a little while back when we were getting our aquaponics system up. But they were also kind enough to ask me to guest blog as well and I simply couldn't refuse. Please don't hesitate to pop over to their site and check out my...
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