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Yellow daisies in the front, monarda in the back in my garden today. |
Growing Monarda

by Jeanne
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Yellow daisies in the front, monarda in the back in my garden today. |
Learning how to grow butternut squash organically ensures you know how to grow this tasty, nutritious vegetable in your home garden. I’ll share with you some basic information on growing butternut squash, followed by some organic gardening tips that have been helpful for me here at Seven Oaks Farm in dealing with the various pests…
Make the perfect cup of herbal tea, right from your own garden! In May, I gave two free talks on how to grow, harvest, dry, and create your very own herbal teas. This lecture proved so popular that I recorded the narration and uploaded it to YouTube. You can view it below: Supplies to Make…
I spent last Saturday morning getting rid of Eastern tent caterpillars from the apple and pear trees in the orchard here on the farm. Malacosoma americanum, the Eastern tent caterpillar, is a regular visitor each spring. We first spot the shimmery webs on a clear spring day. The small ‘tents’ built by the caterpillars quickly…
Raised bed vegetable garden soil soil needs to be replenished periodically. If you’ve done your job right and selected great soil, and amended it with nice compost, you’re going to have super garden soil for the first few years. Because you don’t walk on a raised bed garden the way that you do with typical…
Very timely post. I’ve been thinking about bee balm lately. We have a native one that I’m hoping to get into my garden.
Hi, my friend! It’s a funny plant. I found it difficult to get started, but once it got established it is doing well. I really had to “baby” it through its first year but now I’m thinking of transplanting some since it is doing so well. Let me know how yours turns out!