Over the years, I’ve grown all kinds of crops in my raised beds. The glass gem corn (pictured above) is my most recent experiment. To me, everything in the garden is an experiment because nothing in gardening is a sure thing (unless we’re talking about mint). Oftentimes, I’ve taken the soil for granted with the…
You’ve probably done this too. Put something off until next year, making due with it and hoping it’ll give you just one more year before you’re forced to spring for a replacement. This was the case with the raised bed my husband built 12 years ago. I’ve grown a lot of veg in that bed…
Hi everyone and Happy Thanksgiving! It’s been a full year, made even fuller by the bounty I’ve grown and harvested in my little raised bed veg patch. If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you might remember my veggie garden glow up last fall. All that backbreaking work (a truckload of pea gravel…
Thanks to Vermont Natural Coatings for partnering with me on this post. All thoughts and opinions belong to yours truly. When it comes to staining my raised beds, it’s gotta be clean. If you go to any home improvement center looking for exterior wood stain, you’ll find shelf after shelf of options that will do…
Absence has definitely made my heart grow fonder and deeply aware that a garden glow-up is in order. It’s not that I’ve lost the love for my garden, namely the raised bed vegetable garden, I’ve just been away from it and it’s painfully obvious. From the weed covered area around the beds to the quagmire…
I may earn a small commission from some of the links in this post. As always, all opinions are my own. When it comes to growing blueberries, you either have it or you don’t. The “it” being perfect soil conditions. I don’t have perfect anything. That would be incredibly boring. It’s all about soil pH….
