So here’s the thing about growing tomatoes into fall – most people wait way too long to start thinking about it, then panic when frost threatens and just yank everything out of the ground. Or they read some vague advice about “protecting plants from cold” and think tossing a bedsheet over them the night before…
Alright so here’s something most people get backwards. Everyone thinks spring is the time to move plants around. You see those perfect garden magazines with people transplanting stuff in April and assume that’s when it’s supposed to happen. But September? September is actually way better for moving perennials. Like significantly better. And there’s real science…
So here’s something that trips people up constantly – you walk outside after a rainy week and boom, your lawn or garden beds are covered in mushrooms. And everyone’s first reaction is “oh no, I have a problem.” Except here’s the thing. Most of the time? You don’t. Those mushrooms are basically your soil’s way…
Okay so here’s the thing about fig wasps that literally everyone gets wrong. You’ve probably heard that figs have dead wasps inside them, right? And maybe you’ve been slightly grossed out about it? Well, those crunchy bits you’re feeling in your fig? They’re seeds. Just regular seeds. Not wasp parts. But the actual story of…
Okay so I need to rant about ornamental grasses for a minute because there’s so much bad info out there. I spent like three years growing this huge bed of miscanthus after reading how amazing it would look in fall. You know what color it turned? Beige. Like boring tan-beige. Not the fiery orange-red the…
So here’s the thing about fall-planted spring bulbs. Every gardening blog makes it sound super simple – just stick bulbs in the ground, wait til spring, boom flowers. And yeah, that’s the basic idea. But there’s actually a lot more to it if you want them to come back year after year and not just…
So I got into container gardening because my yard has basically zero space for actual beds. And every summer I’d fill pots with petunias and geraniums and they’d look great until like August when everything got crispy and sad looking. Then September would roll around and I’d be staring at these containers full of dead…
So here’s something that confused me for years when I first started growing fruit trees – everyone says to prune in winter when the tree’s dormant, right? But then you start reading about stone fruits and suddenly it’s all about summer pruning after harvest. What gives? Turns out there’s actually solid science behind why timing…
Look, I get it. Landscape fabric seems like such a smart solution. You put it down, cover it with mulch, and supposedly never deal with weeds again. That’s what the garden center told me anyway. Except it doesn’t work like that. Not even close. I’ve used landscape fabric in three different garden beds over the…
Okay so here’s what nobody tells you about fall gardening. Everyone acts like once September hits, your garden is basically done until next spring. Like you’re supposed to just accept brown mums and call it a season. But that’s actually complete BS. There are plants that literally bloom better in cold weather than they do…