How to Plant Tomatoes for Success

Knowing when and how to plant tomatoes can make a huge difference with how successful they are this season. There’s a lot of information out there, but I’m here to guide you through the proven methods that have helped both me and my family succeed at growing tomatoes over the years. Once you de-mystify it,

Seed or Weed?

It may sound silly, but it can be really hard to tell if something coming up in your garden is something you planted. When I first started gardening, I’m pretty sure I accidentally “weeded” some of my vegetable seedlings! Many people don’t realize that when veggie plants are small, they ALL look kindof like weeds.

Weed, weed, go away

There’s a lot of articles out there about what you should use to keep weeds away from your vegetables. But one thing everyone can agree upon is that the best way to keep weeds out is to keep them from coming up in the first place. I’ve tried lots of different ground cover and weed

Building your garden bed

If you already have an idea of what you want to use to build your new garden bed, feel free to skip this post. However, you may find some interesting tips & tricks here about what I’ve found to be the most useful, and what tends to get in the way. You may have seen

Drawing up your Garden Plan

Just because you know what you want to plant, and know where your garden bed is going to be doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re ready to plant. One of the key elements to a garden plan is considering how much space each plant needs. After that, there are also considerations for which plants like to

How Many Plants Do I Need?

The trickiest part of gardening is figuring out how many plants you need. This is something that really isn’t a simple answer, but I’ll try to provide some guidelines as a starting point that you can run with. Part of the reason there isn’t a simple answer is that the amount of vegetables any one