by Jeanne
The Herbal Academy is offering a free ebook on herbal safety! I just sent an email out to our Home Garden Joy community and downloaded my copy and WOW – not only is it chock-full of information, it’s beautiful to look at, too. And free. Did I mention free? Learn More About Using Herbs –…
Growing watermelon in the home garden is not for the faint of heart. I have plenty of room, and it still threatened to take over the garden. You will either need to leave a lot of room for the sprawling vines or look for varieties specifically marked for containers. Growing it on a trellis is…
Growing zucchini in raised beds ensures that this prolific vegetable has the best conditions to thrive. You can grow zucchini in pots or containers, but I prefer growing it in raised beds. This is a great vegetable to grow if you have a “black thumb” and kill plastic plants, because it’s hard to grow a…
Wondering how to grow onions? I’ve grown onions here at Seven Oaks Farm in several ways: from “sets” or starter plants and from store-bought onions that sprouted in the bag! Onions don’t require much space, and you can grow a lot for the money you spend on starter plants. Let’s take a look at how…
Me again ;). You would love the farms here. We have tons of Mennonites in the area and their gardens are so picture perfect it makes one cry. I wish I could be so prolific in keeping my farm so beautiful but I have to remind myself they have large families that help a lot and their own greenhouses etc.! I don’t have that. I did get a small Mary garden going, not what I wanted but for now it will do. I have a large cement Mary statue in front of my house that came with it. She is too heavy for me to move on my own so I made a ring of bricks around her and planted it. I told hubby I want her to have a place of honor in the future. He is Catholic too but not practicing, one of those forced to go to church by an overbearing mother who had a need to appear perfect. But he lets me do as I please with my quickly growning Catholic pile of stuff that I keep rescuing from yard sales and thrift shops ;). Maybe I’ll start a blog and show some of the stuff I have. Would you come visit?
We just finished up a weeks worth of haying. 25 more acres to cut and bale and 1st crop will be done. Yay!