Growing tomatoes in containers

I’ve subscribed to the feeds of another gardening website called You Grow Girl which has some great information. It’s written by a woman living in Canada who has a true urban garden on her rooftop. She posted a new article about selecting the right...

Houston we have a slug problem!

Well, the slugs have had a great time on our lettuce once again. Quite a few of them took advantage of the open bar but it seems that there are just far too many to prevent some of them from going for the lettuce instead. We’ve pretty much lost all the plants...

Spiders, slugs and catnip

While I was waiting for the container to arrive today, I was doing various little tasks like cleaning up the house and any other small stuff that didn’t require that I be outside of hearing range of the front door. I went in the garden to check on the lettuce...

The wonders of Stevia

We’ve been scouring the web for a few days now trying to find out just how much stevia we would need to sweet a pitcher of iced tea or a cup of coffee…or how much we’d need for baking or whatever. We finally found the information on this website...

The garden that came with the house :-)

Behind the barn on our property is a garden. Many people don’t even realize it’s there because you don’t see it at all and even when you are in the barn, it’s so dark you may not even notice the door in the back. Until last weekend, we...