Cover Crops - a short guide

Hairy Vetch by homeredwardprice

Don’t leave bare soil in your garden when you could plant a cover crop instead. Here’s why and how.

1. A cover crop is a short-term planting which is used to protect and/or improve your soil rather than for food.

2. Plant your cover crop in the fall rather than leaving bare soil [...]

How to Plant a Back to School Garden

Have you ever tried summer vegetable planting for a fall harvest? Back to school time is just the time to try this.

It really seems counter intuitive to go out into the summer heat and plant spring, cool season vegetables. But it works! Give it a try. Here’s how.

How to Know What to Grow?

The trick to [...]

What do you want?

Squirrel Dexterity Demonstration by Tomi Tapio

What do you want? I’m very curious to know.

This blog is about you and what you want from your garden: that little, or large, growing space around, outside, and inside your home.

So Many Gardening Possibilities

Do you ever wonder what to plant? There are so many wonderful possibilities for your [...]

Chasing the Beauty of Red Maples in Kansas

Red Maple Goodness by Clearly Ambiguous

Fall in Kansas wouldn’t be fall without the red, yellow, and orange of maple leaves dancing in the sunshine, swirling, gusting, and drifting to set the ground on fire. Maples in Eastern Kansas include red maple Acer rubrum, silver maple Acer saccharinum, and sugar maple Acer saccharum. Sugar maple [...]

Kansas Fall

Eastern Chipmunk by Gilles Gonthier

It’s time to prepare for winter. At least the chipmunks and squirrels in my back yard think so. This year the white oak tree has produced a massive crop of acorns – I’ve never seen it produce so many. But until last Friday the animals completely ignored the acorns, letting [...]