The Value of a Home Garden
Learn about the true value of a home garden in enhancing well-being and providing a soothing escape from daily challenges.
Entries by Stephen Scott
Plant Your Spring Flowers in the Fall
Get ready for a vibrant spring garden! Learn why fall is the perfect time to plant wildflowers and flower seeds for a blooming display.
Planting a Pollinator Feast
Enhance your garden’s beauty and productivity with pollinator-attracting plants. Learn how attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds can create a thriving and colorful garden.
Indoor Herbs – A Guide to Growing Fresh Flavors Year-Round
Bring the flavors and scents of fresh herbs into your home with an indoor herb garden. Learn how to easily cultivate herbs indoors.
Korean Pickled Garlic (Maneul Jangajji)
Discover a tasty recipe for Korean pickled garlic using fresh hardneck garlic. Sweet undertones and a tangy flavor await!
Why Grow Cover Crops: Easy Soil Improvement
Discover the power of cover crops for easy soil improvement in your garden. Enhance soil health, suppress weeds, and attract beneficial insects with these natural helpers.
Garden Season Extension: Simple Techniques for Longer Harvests
Maximize your gardening season with season extension techniques. Learn how to stretch your harvest and grow a variety of crops earlier and later in the year.
How to Plan for Fall and Winter Gardening
Successful Fall and Winter Gardening depends on summer planning for cool season harvests. We show you an easy way for great fall produce!
Why Grow a Cool Season Garden
Unlock the potential of cool-season gardening. Learn how to grow flavorful crops like kale, carrots, and broccoli during fall and winter.
Edible Flowers: From Garden to Gourmet – Heirloom Varieties for Every Kitchen
Transform your meals with the beauty and flavor of edible flowers. Discover how these easy-to-grow plants can add elegance to your cooking.
Stale Seedbed Technique – Harness Nature’s Cycles for Less Weeding, More Gardening
The counterintuitive gardening technique that gives you cleaner beds with less work. Discover the secret of stale seedbeds.
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.
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
Discover the power of trap cropping for pest control in your home garden. Learn how to use decoy plants to protect your precious 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.
Growing Delicious Carrots from Seed to Harvest
Discover the secrets of growing perfect carrots in your backyard. Our guide covers everything from seed selection to harvest time.
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!
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!
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.