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A Word About Never Giving Up on your Dreams…
I wish I had been one of those kids who knew what they wanted to be when they grew up. I always had lots of interests and an uncanny ability to fall into…
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Native Plant Tracker
I’ve created a 15 page printable kit that you can use to observe and track the native plants in your environment as they change from week to week. The best teacher is experience…
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Racism in My Town & Lawn Obsession
A few months ago I wrote about how white supremacy affects everything, including gardening. On the surface it seems insane that these two topics can intersect, but they don’t exist in a vacuum-…
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Ideas for Bringing Native Plant Gardening into the Mainstream
I recently attended an online event featuring none other than Doug Tallamy, a professor and entomologist who has inspired a whole movement of gardening with native plants! Some of his books include: The…
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Do You Have a Lawn? Save Money & Save the Earth with this Product!
Though I live in the suburbs- albeit in a weird commercial/industrial quasi-urban pocket of the suburbs- I am a total nonconformist when it comes to keeping a lawn. I have a front yard…
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Garden Products I’m Loving Right Now- June 2020
I’ve been juggling a lot these days but I wanted to stop and share a few garden products that have really blown my mind recently. First up is Jobe’s Organic Fertilizer Sticks. I…
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Creating a Native Garden-Some Things to Consider
So you’re thinking about creating a native garden. That’s great! By adding even a few native plants you will be creating habitat, food and nesting places for a whole spectrum of wildlife. It’s…
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How to Identify a Plant
There are several free plant identification apps available for mobile. I use the PlantNet and iNaturalist apps. The first thing I do when I find a plant that I don’t recognize is take…
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Garden Updates (June 10, 2020)
Well, it’s June and things are still a little dicey. Many of the vegetable seedlings I planted died during the freakish cold snaps that occurred last month. Mother’s Day used to be *the*…
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When Veggie Plants Go Wrong
Plant problems got you down? Me too. We’re a few months into the spring planting season here in the Northeast, and I’m just coming to terms with the fact that some of my…
