My Hugel Bioswale Build Guide. With Additional Resources.
My suburban hugel bioswale was dug and filled in about three hours. Dig, fill and plant. Six week later, my squash and beans were blooming.
My suburban hugel bioswale was dug and filled in about three hours. Dig, fill and plant. Six week later, my squash and beans were blooming.
Why build an herb spiral? It takes less time than it looks, you can create microclimates and host a variety of plants and it’s an eye catching conversation starter. Guide…
My personal guide and review of my orders using Renaissance Farms – Seeds of Love. Overview, details and a link to my experience buying tomatoes and other garden goodies from multiple seed companies if you so desire.
If you have gardens set by color, as I do, check the background color of the leaves in the photo of the dahlia tuber you are looking to buy. I find many sellers will color adjust to make a dahlia seem a rarer color than it actually is. Or, perhaps a new seller may not pay attention ensuring a color is true when they throw up a photo of the dahlia for sale.
The goal of the home gardener’s cold stratification process is to mimic the winter conditions the seed in the wild would experience in the habitat that plant is best suited for. In my own example, Gentian is a mountain flower. The seed, in the wild, would cold stratify under snowpack (moist) in a cold environment with freezing temperatures.
Guide to and personal anecdote regarding why I am future self journaling.