Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother If you love cooking with garlic and would like to grow your own at home, today’s blog post is for you. I get a lot of questions about garlic. For some reason, growing garlic seems to really intimidate people, but garlic is truly such an easy…
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HOMEGROWN: 4 Key Things To Do This Fall To Wrap Up Your Gardening Season Right
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother At this point in the season, I know many gardeners (even myself) start feeling weary and tired from their efforts throughout the entire summer (whether your garden lived up to expectations or not). It is all too easy to just limp to the end of the…
HOMEGROWN: The End of Summer Reset- The Perfect Time to RENEW Your Garden
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother Welcome to late August, the magical time of year for Midwestern gardeners when our gardens explode and finally start to produce the long-awaited fruiting crops we’ve been craving since winter. Aside from a bounty of zucchinis, tomatoes, and cucumbers, this part of the summer offers gardeners…
HOMEGROWN: The Four Most Common Mistakes You Might Be Making When Watering Your Garden
Guest series by Danielle Smith of Garden Like a Mother This month we are talking about watering your garden: an easy choice of topic due to the drought conditions here in our part of Wisconsin. Despite the rain that finally fell this past week, we have still been experiencing uncharacteristically low rainfall totals this year,…
HOMEGROWN: Top 5 Tips for Transplanting Success
Hello my darlings and happy planting season!!! I think we have finally reached the end of evenings in the thirties (or at least I sure freaking hope so!) and it’s time to get serious with the planting. At our farm, we have just started to kick things up a notch, getting the first summer crops…
The Leek & The Carrot 