Homemade Weed Killers – Are Social Media Recipes Safe and Effective?
Discover the truth about homemade weed killers. Are social media recipes safe and effective? Find out before you try them in your garden.
Entries by Stephen Scott
A Systems Approach to Gardening Success
Uncover the power of a systems approach for gardens. Understand the interconnectedness of plants, insects, soil, and more for a thriving ecosystem.
Where Can I Find Quality Compost?
Discover the benefits of using quality compost in your garden. Improve soil health and promote thriving plants with nutrient-rich compost.
Chipotle-Cilantro Coleslaw
Elevate your coleslaw game with Chipotle-Cilantro Coleslaw. This recipe features roasted golden beets for a unique and delicious twist.
Growing Tomatoes 101
Growing tomatoes is an enjoyable and rewarding experience that anyone can master. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just starting out, with the right knowledge and techniques, you can easily grow healthy and delicious tomatoes.
Moroccan Preserved Lemons
Preserved whole lemons is a centuries-old tradition where salt and lemon juice mellow the bitterness and create highly addictive sweet, salty, and sour flavors heavy with savory citrus aromas.
Cover Crops Beat Garden Weeds
Planting cover crops benefits your garden in many ways, beyond just soil improvement. Weed suppression, attracting pollinators, and nutrients for next season are some examples.
Trap Crops – Organic Pest Management for Gardeners
Trap crops – also called intercrops – is an older technique using sacrificial plants as a decoy to lure invading pest insects away from your vegetables.
How to Grow Citrus Flavors in Your Garden
These eight easily grown herbs bring fresh, bright and invigorating citrus scents and flavors to your kitchen and garden, even if you can’t grow citrus trees.
Grow Delicious Carrots from Seed to Harvest
Carrots are a cornerstone of the garden; they etch themselves into our memory from the very first bite. Learn what they need to grow the tastiest ones.
Spring Garden Soil Elixir
A Spring garden soil elixir that is easy to mix, completely non-toxic and hugely beneficial to jump-starting your garden’s soil for planting.
Growing Great Eggplant – What You Need to Know
Fresh-picked, home-grown heirloom eggplant is sweet and delicious and we’ll show you how to grow it and enjoy it at its best!
Lime-Mint Freezer Pickles
Lime and mint are not usually thought of together (if at all) in combination with pickles, but they should be! The lime-mint flavors work together with the cucumbers to make something much more than the sum of their parts – bright, refreshing, and absolutely addictively delicious.
Grow Great Hardneck Garlic at Home
Hardneck garlic has a more complex, richer, spicier flavor that is more ‘garlicky’ than the supermarket types. We show you how to grow your own great garlic!
Make the Best Sun-Dried Tomatoes at Home
Home-made sun-dried tomatoes are amazing. Just cracking open a jar perfumes the room with their unmistakably rich fragrance, and they are easy to make.
Heirloom Corn – Grow It to Save It
Heirloom corn is one of our oldest domesticated foods, feeding us for an estimated 7,000 years. Originating in Mexico, this cultivated grass is highly versatile and adaptable, providing so much more than simply food for our lives today. See some delicious varieties and how to grow in a small space.
Build Your Own Seed Starting Station
A seed starting station helps you germinate seeds better and grow stronger transplants for your garden. Better gardens start with robust, healthy seedlings; they grow from the ideal conditions a seed rack provides. We share our 20 years experience in how to build your own.
Shade Your Garden for Better Vegetables
Shade for a garden is a polarizing subject – it seems like we’ve either got too much or too little. Today we’re focusing on gardens that need shade and showing you easy and simple ways to add some shade to your garden.
3 Ways to Grow Great Onions from Seed
Onions grown from bulbs or transplants are a good way to get started, but growing your onions from seed opens up a world of diversity in tastes, shapes, sizes, and colors. Seed-grown onions are just better all around!
Growing Peppers 101
We look at the basics of growing both sweet and hot peppers in your home garden and some mistakes to avoid and myths to be aware of. Armed with a little knowledge, you’ll be much more successful this season!
Planting a Pollinator Feast
Planting a pollinator feast of herbs and flowers is a simple way to a better garden this season. They are food and shelter for insects and birds while providing aromatherapy, culinary, and medicinal benefits to us gardeners.
Bierocks – Savory Hand-held Working Lunches
Bierocks are the original working lunch, hand-held savory pies served in the fields during the mid-day break. Today they are enjoyed anytime!
Beneficial Soil Organisms – the Team Players
Beneficial soil organisms are the team players working tirelessly to improve your garden soil and feed your plants. Learn who they are and how to help them!
A Garden’s Beauty
A garden’s beauty lies within each person who sees it, reflecting their experiences, dreams, and hopes. We see through the lens of our own reality, so no two people see the same garden.
Handmade Organic Soap
A bar of organic soap seems simple sitting in your hand, but it must do a lot – creamy lather that cleans while moisturizing, feels good and lasts well – all in one bar.
Shea Butter Heals Hands While Healing Lives
Real, pure Shea butter is handmade with incredible healing properties. Our partnership ensures it heals the lives who produce it while it heals our hands.
Ethel M Botanical Cactus Garden
The Ethel M chocolate factory in Henderson, NV has a delightfully unexpected surprise – a relaxing and refreshing botanical cactus garden! Impressive peace and beauty in the city.
Arugula – the Wild, Ancient, Hip and Versatile Green
Arugula might just be the perfect cool season aromatic salad green for the home gardener. Used as an herb, salad green, and leafy green vegetable it’s a very versatile ingredient.
Cool Season Vegetables to Love
Gardeners are sometimes baffled when thinking about cool season vegetables. This quick checklist will help you choose what you like to eat and cook with.
Which cover crop mix is best for me?
Our cover crop mixes benefit the soil in multiple ways. You can’t go wrong with either one, so we’ll show you which one is best for your garden.
Grow Lettuce in Summer
Grow lettuce through the summer without bolting with a little knowledge and preparation we’ll share with you. Imagine your own fresh lettuce this summer!
Homegrown Sprouts Safety
Homegrown sprouts are an excellent alternative to meat, especially for vegetarians and vegans. They are healthy and nutritious if grown, tested and sprouted right.
Spring Onions – When and How to Plant
Spring onions are easy to grow and give great harvest in about two months. See how to choose, plant, grow and harvest them!
Salsify – the Vegetable Oyster
Salsify or oyster plant is an ancient herb that was eaten as a vegetable by the Greeks and Romans. Hardy and tasty, it is being rediscovered today.
Seed Testing and Preservation: A Behind the Scenes Look at Seed Testing Labs and the USDA
Everyone wants higher quality seed – from the home gardener to the production grower. Seed testing and seed preservation improve seed quality.
How to Grow Sprouts at Home
Sprouts need only 5 minutes a day, matures in about a week and has more nutrients per calorie than any other type of food. Easy to grow and delicious!
Indoor Herbs – Better Than Houseplants
Herbs work harder than your ordinary houseplant. They bring fragrance to the room, flavor to the food and can grow year-round. Here’s 8 easy growing herbs!
Increasing Your Garden Knowledge
One sure way to improve your garden next year is to increase your garden knowledge during the slower season. This is easier than you might think.
Grow Great Pumpkins from Seed to Harvest
Pumpkins are an important fall mascot, from jack-o’-lanterns to delicious foods. After all, what says Fall more than pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin pies?
18 Shea Butter Benefits
Shea butter is the “superfood” for skin – rich in vitamins A, E and F, along with essential fatty acids and nutrients for healing while it moisturizes.
GrowHaus – Making Good Food Happen
GrowHaus is an indoor farm, marketplace and educational center in north Denver, CO. They live their motto of “Healthy food is a right, not a privilege.”
Forest Highlands Kitchen Garden
Discover how a kitchen garden works in a cold, challenging climate. This 29 year old garden was put back into growing vegetables for the kitchen in 2015.
Cover Crops – Better Soil in a Month
Cover crops – also called green manures – have improved soil for thousands of years. We look at what one month of growth provides in an average raised bed.
Fall Onions Made Easy
Growing fall onions usually comes down to one question – “What onions can be grown this fall?” Sweet onions are the safest bet, we’ll show you why!
Six Hour Caramelized Onions
Rich, slow-cooked caramelized onions are a simple treat. Charcoal grill roasting adds a smoky element to the sweet, complex flavors with only 3 ingredients.
Cover Crops FAQ
Our cover crops have created lots of questions about how to use them, so we’ve made this article a Q&A format for the most frequent questions.
Planting Cover Crops for a Better Garden
Cover crops are an easy, effective and inexpensive way to improve soil fertility and help manage weeds, pests and diseases. Don’t let your soil go naked!