In today’s post, I share a video featuring new bare root strawberry plants. I share how to store and plant these amazing fruit treats to grow in almost any home garden. You can grow bare root strawberries in the ground, containers and year-round dome. Planting and Storing Bare Root Strawberry Video I am super excited…
Did you know that soil is living? Once I learned about all the living things in soil gardening became more real for me and my plants grew better too. In this post, I am sharing one of my favorite homemade potting soil recipes. It’s All About The Potting Soil! Below is my win-win recipe for a big…
First spotted in the dome sporting a very dark skin mainly because he was hiding out in the mulch that covers the floor. I have not seen Mr. Toady in a few months so I wasn’t sure if he had left while we had the door open moving rocks in back in November. What a…
It is the middle of Winter season here in my home garden and I’m super anxious to start planting. Today I’m starting a container variety of tomato plants to go under my LED lights so I can easily move the mature plant to my geodesic bio dome to grow until it is warm enough to…
In this post I share how easy it is to grow lettuce in your home garden. I hope you will check out the photos below and share a comment on this post. Lettuce Harvest Late spring in the raised bed garden is an amazing time of transition. The harvest is bountiful with young kale, radishes,…
Starting a Garden From Seed with Children is the most rewarding thing you can do. Spring is the time to get outside as a family. Is there any other Spring activity that brings a family together then to garden? Starting A Garden From Seed with Children Over the years I’ve learned that starting a garden…
It’s that time of year when the Midwest is participating in the race against time to beat old man winters arrival. One of the many tasks during this time is to prepare the containers for winter storage. In today’s post, I am sharing How I Keep My Garden Containers Happy For Years To Come. Autumn…
Updated March 2023 Maybe the best part about having a home greenhouse is the fact that spring comes early each year. In this post we do some Spring Dreaming in the Home Greenhouse It Won’t Be Long I will admit the forecast of highs only reaching the low 20’s and lows in the single digits for…