June is actually a great time to direct sow carrots if you keep that top inch of soil moist until germination. A board or piece of burlap over the row does the trick. Here’s how to make it work and why summer-sown carrots end up sweeter than you’d expect.
Getting kids into the garden is easy. Keeping them interested is the hard part. Here are the kids gardening activities and projects that actually worked in our house, without spending much money.
Free organic mulch is closer than you think. From arborist wood chip drops to coffee grounds from your local cafe, here’s where to find it, how thick to apply each type, and what that saves you versus buying bags.
I threw away vegetable scraps for two full years before I started composting. Two years of coffee grounds and carrot peels going in the trash while I bought bags of compost at the garden center. May is the right time to fix that.
July in Redmond means bolting lettuce and a garden full of regret. Here’s what’s actually thriving in the heat right now, plus what you can still direct sow this month to get something out of the rest of summer.
If your indeterminate tomatoes are huge, leafy, and not producing much fruit, the suckers are probably to blame. Here’s how to prune them in ten minutes a week with no special tools and actually get tomatoes out of the deal.