Gardening 101

Gardening 101 ~ Building a Greenhouse

April 26, 2011

Hello! We are Merissa’s mother and father in-law, Paul and Mary, and it is an honor to be asked to have a guest post on her blog. She asked if we would write about the greenhouse we are building out of discarded patio doors. My husband and I like the idea of “re-purposing” (Finding another [...]

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Gardening 101 ~ Planting the Starts

April 12, 2011

When you have a short growing season like we do up here in the north you will have to plant some things ahead of time indoors. Look at the back of your seed packets to see how long the maturity time is. Most peppers and tomatoes run about 75-80 to be ready to pick. Well, we couldn’t [...]

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Gardening 101 ~ Gardening in Small Spaces

April 5, 2011

  Hello! My name is Rachel from the Domestic Doin’s blog and I am Merissa’s sister -in-law. She asked me to do a guest post on gardening this week. I live farther south than she does, so we are a couple months ahead when it comes to gardening. We already have everything planted, and [...]

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Gardening 101 ~ Get Ready, Get Set…

March 22, 2011

Well if you just ordered your seeds last week you are probably still waiting on them. No worries, it’s not really time to be starting seeds yet anyways.(If you live in the northern states, southern states have already started, lucky for you!) I will not be starting my seeds until the first week in April. [...]

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Gardening 101 ~ Buying Seeds

March 15, 2011

Buying seeds is my very favorite part of the getting ready to garden process. I love looking through catalogs and comparing different plants to ones I’ve ordered before. I love looking at all the pictures of the plants and the veggies and the yummy things that I will have in a few months. There is [...]

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Gardening 101 ~ Picking the Spot

March 8, 2011

I’ve been asked many many times to start a Gardening for beginners series as we approach the gardening season. This series of posts will go from basic ideas and tips on getting ready to garden, to optional things like growing herbs, and we will go more into depth as the series goes on. If you [...]

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