New to Gardening or you just want to learn a new gardening technique? Find all of Little House Living‘s gardening articles here!
Setting Up a Garden
Before You Start a Garden
Buying Seeds
Picking a Spot
Vegetable Garden Planner
Planting Starts
Buying Seeds Online
2015 Spring Garden Planning
Starting Garden Plants from Seed
How to Avoid Newbie Fruit Gardener Mistakes
How to Grow An Herb Garden
Growing and Using the Nasturtium Plant
10 Practical Tips for First Time Gardeners
14 Simple Gardening Tips
Gardening on a Budget
Newspaper Seedling Planters
Building a Greenhouse on a Budget
Simple Garden Projects
5 Ways to Save Money Gardening
Other Gardening Tips
Inexpensive Gifts for Gardeners
How to Save Seeds
How to Grow Fresh Produce in the Winter
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Other Gardening Articles
Gardening in Small Spaces
Growing Vegetables in Pots
Homemade Bug Spray for Gardens
Homemade Weed Killer
Banana Peel Plant Fertilizer Spray
Introducing Little Ones to Gardening
Planting a Winter Garden
How to Avoid Newbie Fruit Gardener Mistakes
2016 Garden Video Tour #1
2016 Garden Tour #2
2016 Garden Tour #3
2016 Garden Tour #4
2016 Garden Tour #5
A Peek Inside a Commercial Greenhouse
25 Gardening Books You Should Own
The End of the Gardening Season
How to Make Mulch
How to Save Seeds
Creating a Winter Garden (Container Gardening)
Jamie Wilson says
January 15, 2014 at 11:30 amHi! I absolutely love your blog and am a loyal follower :-). A have a very amateur question for you…how many seeds to use!? I’ve read the packets and read blog articles and gardening websites, but I’ll see that onions should be planted 1/4 in. deep. But how many seeds per hole? Crazy question I know, but I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere!
Merissa says
January 15, 2014 at 12:01 pmMost packets will tell you the depth. For seeds per hole it depends on what you are planting…bigger plants like cucumbers and squash I usually do 2-3 seeds per hill, beans I plant one at a time, lettuce just kind of gets tossed into a straight row. What plants are you wondering about in particular?
Jamie Wilson says
January 16, 2014 at 4:43 amThis is our first garden, but we’re thinking of planting lots of tomatoes, various peppers, cucumbers for pickling, onions, and carrots. I’d like to try to grow zucchini as well.
Merissa says
January 16, 2014 at 7:09 amCarrots and onions will get sown in a long row by sprinkling the seeds once at a time. Tomatoes and peppers are usually started indoors (depending on your zone), and cucumbers are usually planted 2-3 seeds per “hill”.
Andie says
February 18, 2014 at 8:10 pmI love your blog. I share a lifelong fondness for Laura and her life.
Here in Arizona, local library branches allow seeds to be checked out. The seed varieties are heirloom and desirable for our specific desert region.
They are free and last year my daughter, who is autistic, snacked her way around the garden eating radishes, peas and lettuce!
Angela says
February 21, 2014 at 2:52 pmI’m starting my first vegetable garden this year. What do you recommend for fertilizer? I’ve started a worm composting bin but I don’t think there will be any compost in time. Also, my worms have been trying to escape so I could be doing something wrong there. Either way, I cannot count on the compost, I’ll have to fertilize another way.
Merissa says
February 21, 2014 at 4:20 pmWe always use either chicken or cow manure. This year I don’t have that option so we are going to use fermented fish fertilizer. I found mine at Azure Standard: https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/7316/
Janis says
February 21, 2014 at 4:13 pmI love your website, so interesting and affordable!
Dawn says
February 28, 2014 at 2:00 pmI love roses but I am not too sure how to care for them ,any advice
Michelle Houtz says
March 24, 2014 at 8:53 amI would like to try my hand at gardening some veggies this year and have set aside some green and red pepper seeds. (I saved them and air dried them from the peppers I bought at the grocery store) Would they do well in a container on my porch in full sun? Would they (or another veggie) be easy to grow in a container? I’m short on space but long on ideas to try my hand at something new!
Merissa says
March 24, 2014 at 9:19 amPeppers are a GREAT plant to grow in a container because they grow so nicely. Tomatoes do very well as well.
judy says
April 4, 2014 at 10:28 amI am going to try straw bale gardening for the first time. I have a limited space and don’t want alot of work . I have a large yard, and lots of flowers. So this year is trying to maintain what I have . Looking forward to spring and all it brings. Looking forward to all I will learn and be able to share on here.
Aleesha Bake says
April 24, 2014 at 2:44 pmLOVE your site, we’ve been working to get our garden in this week and I have really enjoyed some of your tips- I can’t wait to try the newspaper seedling planters next year!
Brenda Webb says
May 19, 2014 at 10:12 amI enjoy learning new ways to use old things. Thanks.
kathleen Anderson says
October 18, 2014 at 3:48 pmI am putting leaves around my apple trees on old newsprint and plan to put banana peels and potato peelings son it , too. for Potassium, but I would like to know what I can put on it for Calcium Maybe Meisssa knows….any ideas would be welcomed. Something natural would be nice…. The two trees haven’t fruited as yet…three and four years old. Cortland and Wolf river Thank you kindly.
Merissa says
October 18, 2014 at 6:20 pmI add a bit of crushed eggshells and/or epsoms salts around my plants for added calcium 🙂
Kathleen Anderson says
October 18, 2014 at 7:06 pmThank you so much for your reply Trying to get yard work, raking and fertilizing done…. We live in Upper Michigan and could tell it was snowing in the distance…a little sleet for a few minutes!! It is coming!! Stay warm.
Merissa says
October 18, 2014 at 8:23 pmSend it this way! I’m ready for the flies and Box Elder bugs to go away!
tara says
September 5, 2015 at 5:10 pmI love your blog!! What is the name of your wallpaper at the top of the blog page?
Alisah Simmons says
May 23, 2016 at 11:02 amHello , I have really enjoyed your blog. You really give good info that I love. Thanks for sending updates and keeping me informed. I see that
you r order your seeds. Do you ever by them from the garden centers at anytime?
Merissa says
May 23, 2016 at 12:29 pmOccasionally if I have a few things that don’t sprout I will buy them from a garden center, but rarely.