Picking out seeds - Don't limit yourself!
We get seeds for our gardens from all over the place in addition to saving seeds at the end of each season. We love trying new varieties...
Feeding the garden
One of our favorite "foods" for the beds and gardens is coffee grounds. A lot of coffee shops are happy to offer them for free as they...
Planting Seeds for Spring
I'll admit that waiting for spring is tough for me. Generally I like cold weather and look forward to the southern heat of summer moving...
Getting Ready for Spring!
I needed yesterday. Bad. Though we get cold weather in the winter here in the Carolinas, we don't often get consistently cold weather....
Combination Pear Tree?
One of the things I look forward to this spring, and this year really, is watching the growth of a new tree we ordered from Raintree...
Community Gardens in the past - Mecklenburg Mill in NoDa - Charlotte
Community gardening and community gardens are hardly a new concept. Though the trend all but died out in the past century, it was a...
Layered gardening
With limited space urban gardeners are challenged with optimizing what goes where and which plants work best together. In our garden we...
How I got started (Scott)
When it comes to gardening, I grew up like a lot of kids in the South. A little bit of first-hand experience and a good bit of influence...
Remembering Summer!
Last night and today we are seeing record temps and single digit freezing weather in the Charlotte region. Of course it's winter and of...
