Welcome to Home Garden Joy, the place to learn all about gardening. I’ll teach you how to grow fresh, delicious organic fruit, vegetables, herbs, and flowers. I also share recipes to help you live a healthy, plant-based lifestyle, and tips to help you preserve the harvest to enjoy your garden’s bounty all year long.
Whether you’re brand new to the world of gardening or a green thumb, welcome to Home Garden Joy – the kitchen garden reimagined
The following basic herbal jelly recipe can be adapted for use with any herb and fruit juice combination. The combination I’m making here is sage and pineapple juice. I’ve also made cranberry-basil jelly and lemon-parsley jelly, both of which are delicious! The secret to making tasty herbal jelly is to use fresh herbs. In my…
Do cicadas hurt gardens? More specifically, does the 17-year cicada (Magicicada septendecim) eat garden plants? Will you have you protect your vegetable garden if you live in one of the affected states when Brood X emerges? The 17-Year Cicada (Magicicada septendecim) or Brood X Sleeping one to two feet below the surface of the soil…
If you’ve ever felt like you didn’t have enough space to grow everything you’d like, it’s time to look into vertical gardening. Vertical gardening helps you take full advantage of the space you have, even if it’s small, by growing up instead of out. This might seem like a new idea, but if you think…
These 5 space-saving vegetable garden ideas offer urban gardeners, apartment gardeners, and anyone with limited space the ability to grow lots of plants in small spaces. I’ve put together the following 5 ideas to help you grow your dream kitchen garden – vegetables, herbs, fruits, and edible flowers – even on a tiny city balcony.
Happy Holidays! Here at Home Garden Joy, I’m celebrating the “winter garden” – what’s left of the fall vegetables, any herbs that haven’t been nipped by the frost, and the bounty of canned goods I’ve set aside for just such a season. Here’s what Hubby and I have been up to at Seven Oaks Farm….