Collect seeds from your plants now for a free garden next year
Let It Grow As you notice the flowers in your garden begin to fade, you can look to the future and collect seeds from your plants now for a free garden next year. Growing plants from seed can be very gratifying, but using seeds that you have harvested from your own...
Chive blossom butter and other chive delicacies
By Tammy Thornton When most people think of chives, they picture the cut green stems sprinkled over a steaming hot baked potato. While this is a wonderful way to enjoy chives, did you know that the buds and flowers are also edible? If you have them growing in your own...
Lovely ways to enjoy your lilacs
By Tammy Thornton If you walk through a garden this time of year and become entranced by a wonderful scent wafting through the air, chances are you have happened upon lilacs. Their fragrance can fill an entire garden with heavenly perfume. Though the beautiful...
Achieving the ‘great divide’ in the garden
Let It GrowBy Tammy Thornton Over time, your garden will grow, eventually leading to too much of a good thing. As some perennial plants mature, they will grow so large that they become tired and unhealthy-looking. Others will spread out to the point that they outgrow...
