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Today’s sponsor: Chelsea Green Publishing I’m so honored to welcome Chelsea Green Publishing as today’s sponsor! If you pick up any of your garden-related books in your local library or in your home, you’ll likely find a CGP book somewhere in those piles. They have a fantastically curated group of authors they have published that …
Today’s sponsor: Grip6 I’m excited to welcome Grip6 as today’s sponsor! They are a Utah-based (woot woot!) company who specialize in the most versatile belts and wool socks, among other items – which are all American Made! Lets talk about their UNLIMITED LIFETIME WARRANTY for a minute…yes, you read that correctly. Both their belts and …
Today’s sponsor: NoCry Tools I’m excited to welcome NoCry as today’s sponsor! If you’re looking for the perfect balance of functional, well-made safety gear for all your jobs and hobbies that also happen to have the right price, you’ve found the perfect brand! You know those certain plants you dread pruning, or planting because they’re …
Today’s sponsor: Bootstrap Farmer I’m very excited to welcome Bootstrap Farmer as today’s sponsor! If you’re new to Bootstrap Farmer’s items, gear up to be blown away with their products. If you are doing any sort of seed-starting, micro-green growing, or using trays and containers for your garden in other ways, you NEED to know …
It’s here!!!! Birthday giveaway week! If you haven’t heard, our family farm is celebrating 132 years of being in our family this month. That absolutely boggles my mind! To celebrate, I’ve teamed up with some amazing sponsors and will be giving away some very fun prizes for your home and gardening life over the next …
It’s that time of year when gardeners are checking their mailboxes excitedly every single day. We’re all probably resembling Ralphy waiting for our Little Orphan Annie Decoder pins! As the catalogs come in, you’ll find us checking our seed inventories (if we’re trying to behave before ordering), and scouring over all the new things we’ve …
Here in Utah, Fall is officially here, and Winter is just around the corner. When we saw that we’d have the upcoming weeks dipping below freezing (32°F/0°C) at night, we decided it was time to start putting the garden to bed for the season. But how do we know what to expect from one garden …
If you’re looking for an amazing place to help you keep your vegetable and ornamental gardens organized, and also have a place for inspiration on what to plant where, you NEED to get this new app from Gardenize (free version available)! I have partnered up with Gardenize to bring you the play by play of …
Last week, I talked a bit about how we’re amending our clay soil using compost. I wish I made as much compost myself as I need every year – and I’m envious of Charles Dowding’s amazing compost output. But that just isn’t what we can do right now, and that’s ok! When you can’t make …
Are weeds driving you nuts? You’re not alone. That was the entire reasoning of us covering all our garden beds with heavy pit-liner and planting in cut-out holes for about 6 years. We were DONE fighting them. We had a very persistent weed that had appeared through our irrigation water and took over our beds. …
