Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Every year I like to create a list of garden projects that I plan to tackle for the year. It’s a list of goals that I would love to accomplish but often due to time I find I planned for more than I can do. My goal list helps me to organize and prioritize what ... Read more The post Garden Project Goals for 2025 appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Everything has it’s own time, even seeds. They just don’t last forever! Fortunately though many seeds do last a long period of time and you can use seed from previous years to grow your garden. I’ve had tomato seeds germinate that were over 10 years old. Best of all they produced healthy tasty tomatoes! I’ve ... Read more The post How Long Do Seeds Last? (Seed Viability) appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation If you are a gardener you have probably heard people talking about how great woodchips are. That is probably because they are a very good resource for building up organic matter. Woodchips and leaves are also very easy to acquire and and best of all cheap! Woodchips do have a few drawbacks but if you ... Read more The post Things to Know About Using Woodchips and Leaves in the Garden appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Compost bins are essential in the garden. They take the waste materials from the yard, garden, kitchen, or farm and turn it into usable soil. Good compost is worth its weight in gold to gardeners which is exactly why it is nicknamed “gardener’s gold.” One of the easiest ways to make a lot of compost ... Read more The post Compost Bins from Pallets appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Moss Phlox (Phlox subulata) is an amazing plant with unique characteristics that make it an awesome choice for gardeners. This phlox is an evergreen or semi-evergreen plant that has a creeping habit with needle-like foliage, adding texture and interest to any garden landscape. One of the most noticeable features of Moss Phlox is its mass ... Read more The post Why You Should Plant Moss Phlox in Your Garden (Phlox subulata) appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation Rosemary is a wonderful plant for gardening. I love it as a ornamental shrub as well as an edible herb. The problem is it CAN be finicky. Sometimes the winter cold is too tough for rosemary and it sadly dies over the winter. Fortunately there are techniques you can use to make sure your rosemary ... Read more The post Overwintering Rosemary appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation The historic dryness finally gave way to some rain on Halloween. About 0.83 inches came down that day give us a good soaking. We still need more rain, and regular rain but it definitely helps. I’ve been concerned about the lack rain and the fall color potential but fortunately some trees have done really well ... Read more The post Maples, Oaks, and Invasives! Fall Color 2024 appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation I have a fondness for fall color. I think we all do this time of year. We like seeing the transition of green to gold or red and oranges. There’s a little bit of a feeling of closure that begins to come to us through the fall. That the end of one chapter is almost ... Read more The post Fall Color in Tennessee 2024 so far… appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation I find Garden Tours fun to put together. It’s an opportunity incessantly talk about plants, plans, and ideas and that is one of my favorite things to do! I put together a garden tour of our current garden on YouTube which you can watch down below. To summarize the year so far we moved in ... Read more The post Fall 2024 Garden Tour appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more

Post by Growing The Home Garden - Home Gardening with Vegetables, Herbs, and Plant Propagation It’s October and the temperatures are getting cooler which makes it ideal for planting garlic! I just planted two raised beds full of garlic a few days ago. Garlic loves to start in cooler weather and this coming week we are predicted to have some night temperatures in the 30 degree range. It should be ... Read more The post Fall is for Planting Garlic in the Garden appeared first on Growing The Home Garden ..read more