It is always such and exciting time when it comes to shopping for seeds. You can easily get overwhelmed by all the choices, companies and trends. These seed buying tips can bring you more ease and possibly save you some money when it comes time to purchase your seeds for the coming season. You may…
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Four of My Favorite Cut Flowers for the Kitchen Garden
Growing flowers in and amongst your kitchen garden is highly beneficial for so many reasons. Flowers bring pollinators and beauty to your kitchen garden. You’ll notice that beneficial insects help with pest pressure. This is incredibly important when you want to grow holistically and utilize organic gardening principles. I love growing flowers, especially cut flowers…
What I’m Doing in the Garden in July
July in the garden is a time filled with lots of activities and tasks. Below is a list of just some of the things I am doing in my garden throughout July to keep the garden happy and producing lots of food, flowers and herbs. Somethings are helping keep pest pressure down as well as…
Garden Inspiration: Look Back to Move Ahead
Feeling overwhelmed by the ever growing and bountiful garden? Think back to those cold, dreary winter days when you were dreaming of the gardening season. Remember how you couldn’t wait for the ground to thaw enough to sow those first early cool season seeds? Think back to the excitement you had looking through all the…
3 Tips For Gardening in the Heat
July in Colorado can be the kick off to hot weather for days on end. In fact, in my specific growing area July is considered a “Hot Season” within the Arc of Seasons as taught by Gardenary. Our average high is 90°F with average overnight lows sitting at 58°F. With this heat comes the need…
Tips For Before & After A Damaging Storm
The above pictures are all from the last few weeks in my garden. You can see I have used shade cloth and even chairs to help protect the garden beds. This season has been so different to any other growing season we have had in at least the last ten years, if not longer. We…
5 Annual Flowers For the Kitchen Garden
Incorporating flowers into raised beds can help bring pollinators to the garden. There are many ways to do this. Some people add a border of flowers around the edge of the kitchen garden or pots surrounding the garden, others add flowers to the raised beds. Flowering herbs are also great picks with the added bonus…
June Garden & Kitchen Tasks
We are now on summer break, instead of things slowing down there is much to do in the garden and kitchen. Now is the time to start dehydrating, freezing, preserving late spring garden harvests and farmers market finds! I am sharing garden and kitchen tasks for early June to help you stay organized and productive…
Growing in the Garden: Radishes
Radishes are quick growing cool season veggies that can be used in a variety of meals with a good nutritional profile. Here is some useful information about radishes to inspire you: With their quick days to maturity and nutritional profile radishes are a great vegetable to add to any garden in the cool season. Since…
3 Way to Protect Your Plants From Hail
Colorado weather can change in a matter of minutes, being prepared can save your plants from being destroyed by heavy rain or hail. Having systems in place can mean having a thriving garden or losing all your plants. In a pinch anything you can use to cover your plants will work as long it it…
Growing In Containers, A Quick Overview of the Basics
Growing in containers is an easy way to get started gardening in almost any size space. There are some things to think about of you want to grow in containers. Below I share some basic tips to get you growing in containers right away. Container Size There are as many sizes to choose from as…
Garden Tools to Help You Through the Season
There are as many ways to garden as there are gardeners. There are also many garden tools being sold pretty much anywhere you go in spring. Often these items claim some sort of promise of making gardening easier or better, etc. In reality we don’t really need a whole lot to hone our gardening skills…
Candice Cullen Holistic Nutritionist, Herbalist, Culinary Nutrition Expert & Garden Coach 