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Organic Gardening: Want Better Veggies? Try Companion Plants!

Avoiding all chemicals on your veggie crops can be a challenge, but it can be done. We haven’t used chemicals in our garden in years! One of the best tricks for the organic vegetable gardener is companion planting.

Home Canned Salsa with Lime Juice

Have I mentioned I’m married to a native Texan? Back in Texas, salsa is practically it’s own food group. And boy howdy, do we go through a lot of the stuff.

Roasted Tomato Sauce for Canning or Freezing

It’s tomato season, y’all! I’m dropping in from a long summer break to share a few of my favorite tomato canning recipes. Stay tuned over the next week or so for a few more recipes, including salsa and tomato soup. Here’s to that last great tomato harvest of the year–may yours be a bumper crop! …

Easy Garden Spray with Essential Oils

Are you looking for a simple, effective, and toxin-free spray to use in your organic garden? You’ll love this Easy Garden Spray with Essential Oils! It’s especially effective against squash bugs.

3 Affordable Materials for Vegetable Garden Walkways

Our square foot garden consists of 4 large wooden boxes separated and surrounded by a grid of substantial walkways, which means we’ve experimented with several options over the years for keeping those areas mulched and free of weeds. Based on our own experience, here are my top three tips for creating affordable walkways in the…

The World’s Largest Carrots…discovered in our very own garden

This is what happens when you try to have a garden and a baby in the same month….we totally forgot about these carrots, planted a week or two before the arrival of Baby Brother. Until last week.

Favorite Summertime Books for Kids

Are you running out of summer activities at your house? How about a trip to the library to check out some fantastic children’s books about summertime? Use the links below to check out our favorite summertime books for kids:

How to Plant a Sunflower House

Remember our Plans for a Sunflower House? Well, we finally got it planted. And just in the nick of time!

8 More Favorite Children’s Books about Gardens

In addition to these 11 Favorite Children’s Books about Seeds and Gardens and these 4 More Delightful Children’s Books about Gardening, we’ve got yet another list of Favorite Children’s Books about Gardens to share with you. And just in time for this year’s growing season!

Planning Our Sunflower House

Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots A sweet friend recently gave me this book about gardening with kids. I love it! It’s packed with fun ideas and adorable drawings, along with specific instructions for tackling a variety of projects: Roots, Shoots, Buckets & Boots: Gardening Together with Children by Sharon Lovejoy.