Growing and Harvesting Tips
Featured Growing and Harvesting Tips
Creating a Cottage Garden - Learn how to create a whimsical charming cottage garden with our helpful tips and ideas!
A Chocolate Lovers Garden - If you love chocolate you'll love planting your very own chocolate lover's garden!
Paperwhites for Winter Charm - Paperwhites, Narcissus tazetta, are a charming variety of daffodil that you'll enjoy adding to your garden!
5 Ingredients for Organic Gardening - Read here to find 5 must-have ingredients for the Organic Gardener's toolkit!
Growing Blueberries! - Blueberries not only taste wonderful but the bushes they grow on will add a splash of color to your fall landscape with their lovely scarlet leaves!
May Garden Tips and Chores - The month of May means it's time to do some garden chores. Enjoy these tips too.
Growing and Harvesting Tips
Summer Harvest Tea
Before the cool weather sets in, enjoy the bounty of your herb, flower and vegetable gardens by giving a Summer Harvest Tea Party. Plan your theme around the garden, invite friends and family. Don't make it a formal affair, but rather a way to celebrate everyone's gardens and share produce, flowers, seeds and advice.
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Harvesting and Using Summer Squash
Summer squash is one of my favorite vegetables. I love the yellow summer squash in particular. They should be harvested while still tender, when they have a "glossy" appearance and are still small. You will most likely need to harvest daily once they start to appear.
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