Thursday, February 21, 2013

online planting calendars

just put in frost date here...which works because this persons last frost date is very similar to mine

putting in zip code put it here

heirloom veggies and seed saving

interesting idea...I might be looking into doing some seed saving in order to save $$ on starting my garden next year.

5 seed starting techniques

I know planting outdoors and starting indoors in the little pods, but this has some other ideas I'm interesting in learning more about such as winter sowing

square newspaper seed starting

a great way to start seeds!

spring herbs

looks like a nice helpful article about spring herbs.
herbs

Sunday, February 3, 2013

tips for peppers

I've had pretty good luck with hot peppers the past few years...can't complain...I've not been overly impressed with my bell peppers, but I'm still trying.
http://harvesttotable.com/2012/06/growing-peppers-for-flavor-timely-tips/

tips for eggplants

I tried so hard to grow eggplants this year, so hard! I had a beautiful one started from seed and was so disappointed! This year I plan to try to buy a transplant and see what happens...
http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/growing-eggplant?cm_mmc=facebook-_-OrganicGardening-_-Content-LearnGrow-_-growing+eggplants