Tomatoes that don’t set fruit, squash flowers that drop off, zucchini that just gives up. Often the problem isn’t your plants, it’s the lack of pollinators. Here are the easiest, cheapest plants to grow that will actually bring bees and butterflies to your garden.
April in the PNW feels too wet to think about watering schedules. But every year, the dry heat sneaks up fast and I’m scrambling. Here’s how I get my spring watering and mulching sorted before it actually matters.
I let my cucumbers sprawl on the ground for two years and ended up with hidden yellow softballs and slug damage on a third of them. A simple DIY trellis made from stakes and twine fixed all of that for under four dollars and freed up six square feet of bed space.