Bring the outdoors in with Five Perennials To Grow In Your Cut Flower Garden Now that spring is finally here, we can all start thinking about planting and tending to our gardens. So many of us are just chomping at the bit to add some beautiful pops of colorful annuals and perennials throughout our yard. Monrovia has long been name trusted for growing healthy and beautiful plants. Available at ...
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Get Your Garden Growing: Printable Vegetable Gardening Guide
Get Your Garden Growing this summer with this Printable Vegetable Gardening Guide. By the time late-February rolls around, I am pretty much over winter. Luckily, this year's winter has been very mild in my neck of the woods. Spring signifies a refreshing beginning. It's a new growing season here on our farm. The guys have been busy plowing and planting our 500 acres. Our farm market has ...
Create Your Own Mosaic Garden Stone
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #LoveYourLawn #CollectiveBias Refresh your lawn with Scotts® EZ Seed® and Create Your Own Mosaic Garden Stone to beautify your garden. Living on a very large fruit and vegetable farm, playing in the dirt is second nature to us. Our family's rich farming history has been striving for 76 ...
25 Fun Things To Do This Fall!
Well, this is it! Today is the day! Hellloooooooo Fall!!! Pretty soon, the weather will be crispy, the leaves will be crunchy, our summer garden will be breathing its last breath and we will all be anxiously awaiting the Great Pumpkin. Yep, fall is officially set to take center stage. Fall is the perfect time of year for a lot of family fun! In fact, I gathered up a list of 25 Fun Things To Do ...
Mason Jar Herb Garden
I think it is safe to say that I do not know what I would do without my fresh herbs. Cooking with fresh herbs is my "thang" - especially basil, parsley, rosemary and cilantro. I am lucky to have a large herb garden that keeps providing me with its bounty well into the fall. I am also lucky to have enough space in my yard to have an herb garden. It is so convenient to walk outside with a pair of ...
Topsy Turvy Emotion Garden
This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #InsideOutEmotions #CollectiveBias As parents, one of our biggest responsibilities is to teach our kids about their emotions and how to deal with them. Helping your kids deal with joy, sadness, fear, disgust and anger may be challenging because sometimes it is hard to figure our what is ...
Gardener’s Orange Hand Cream
This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for details. Gardening and general house chores can take a toll on your hands. Even if you wear gloves, they still can become dry and in need of some love. Such is the case for me. My hands are always working or being washed and they get very dry. I recently started learning about the health benefits of Essential Oils. While I am ...
Summer Cocktail Container Garden
This post may contain affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for details. This colorful Summer Cocktail Container Garden was inspired by my recent visit to the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival in Walt Disney World. You too can create your own colorful container flower garden at home. It's no secret that I love my flower pots. I plant A LOT of pots for my yard and ...
Reflections From The Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival!
Living life on our family's 500 acre fruit and vegetable farm is rewarding and challenging at the same time. We work long hours, both in the wholesale and retail end of our farming business. Farming is hard work. We don't get summers off like most normal families, in fact, we only have usually a short 3 month window in the winter months to try to fit in a family vacation. But the rewards ...
Deer Resistant Plants
This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure policy for details. In our neck of the woods (or the Jersey pines, as we like to call it), I think our deer population outnumbers our human population. While we love to enjoy all that mother nature creates, it gets really frustrating when a group of deer not only peak into your windows to see what's going on, but also help ...