Winter Bloomers

The winter months might not be full of sunshine and warm weather in all the place in the United States, but that is no reason not to have some color in your yard. There are plenty of varieties of plants that will offer you the color that your lawn might be missing in the winter months.  In fact, I had an excursion the other day to find the perfect colorful hanging plants that will offer up glorious color all winter long.  If you have the winter blues and are looking for some bright hues to perk you right up, look no further than these colorful winter options:

Prepare Garden Beds for Winter

It’s only been fall for a month now, but we avid gardeners know it’s never too early to start preparing our gardens for winter.  Soon the first frost will settle in the South, and there’s already been snow in many parts of  the nation.  It’s time to start thinking about how to make sure we take the best care of our garden spaces so we’ll be ready to start them back up next spring, just like it’s time to replace batteries in your smoke detectors, or make sure you arm your adt home security system at night. Putting the garden beds to rest for the winter is primarily a matter of cleaning up and providing adequate coverage for the ground, but there are several things to consider.

Colors of Fall

Berries, Leaves, and Mums.  Oh my!

Most often when you ask someone what they enjoy most about the fall, you will find that the answer usually has something to do with the fall scenery.  You know, leaves changing colors and things like that.  We all love to look at the colors of fall, and for good reason, they are pretty.  Setting up your yard and landscape to get the best of fall colors is probably something that you have never really though about, but it is doable.  There are many fall flowers, shrubs, and trees, but for today we are going to discuss three ways to get some glorious fall colors in your garden.

Growing in the UK

Our sponsor, dish2u, is a provider of satellite television packages that will open a world of channels into your household, letting you learn even more about gardening from around the world.  Today, we’ll be looking at some grow at home statistics from the United Kingdom showing trends in home vegetable gardening over the past few years.  Home gardening has truly taken off worldwide.  Like a classic and well-loved item of clothing, it seems to go out of style every now and then, only to make a meteoric comeback later on.

Fall Gardens

When people think of gardening, they typically will think of late spring and summer planting for their crops in their at home gardens.  While many a crop and such can be planted and cultivated in the summer months, there are still quite a few different varieties of crops that you can grow in the months of fall and some that you will be surprised to learn that you can plant to grow in early winter.  If you are one who has been doing a summer garden for a year or so and would like to start this year to carry on your garden and keep the fresh produce coming, then you are definitely at the right place.

Gardening At Home

How wonderful would it be if you could simply walk outside pick a tomato or squash from off the plant and return back to your kitchen and use that fresh produce in a meal?  Gardening at home can give you just that.  When you grow an assortment of easy-to-grow produce at your house, you will not have to deal with having to drive out to the grocery store, buy fresh produce constantly, or even exchange any money.  Gardening at home for fruits and veggies is not only stress relieving and fun, but it can save you money and help you to eat even more fresh produce which is good for your health too.