The Leaf’d Box Subscription Boxes and Education Kits are a fun, packaged way to introduce edible gardening to your kids. It’s a perfect family activity.
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Have you ever weeded with a flamethrower, I mean, a garden torch? It’s safer than herbicides and yet so much more exciting!
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Welcome to the first installment of what GeekMom Mel hopes will be a fun series of posts involving…you guessed it! Geeky gardening.
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If you have your worms happily buzzing in your homemade worm bin, and you’re seeing some happy worms through signs of their reproduction, after about 3 months, you might be ready to harvest some of the worm castings for your garden. After all, this is the point of the exercise.
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For many of us taught in traditional schooling, science “lab” was about following directions and if you didn’t get the correct result, you were wrong. That is a great way to kill anyone’s curiosity or love of true science. Don’t let that happen with your kids!
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This week, we take a peek at projects that can improve your gardening skills and allow you to build a super-tiny skeleton.
Continue ReadingThe best way to keep basil tasty for a while, I’ve found, is pesto. If you can make a jar of pesto, you’ve got concentrated flavor and dozens of options.
Continue ReadingJust in time for you to order your plants and seeds for this growing season! This month the U.S. Department of Agriculture publicized their new plant hardiness zone map. This is the first update to the map since 1990, but thanks to incredible technological advances in weather measurements since then, users can expect a much […]
Continue ReadingSunflowers grow so easily where I live that the plants volunteer every year where the parents dropped their seeds the summer before. The variety in my garden springs up eight to ten feet with leaves bigger than my hands. They’re very dramatic, and I love them. But, early in the summer my sunny garden plot […]
Continue ReadingYou want the little darlings to eat what’s good for them — and like it. You know power plays, bribes, and other control efforts don’t lead to healthful eating habits in the long run. So what’s a parent to do? Here are some great sure-fire options. Shrink it. Kids tend to appreciate things on a […]
Continue ReadingSometime last week I saw a friend’s Facebook status: “crocus siting!” What a thrill to read. So, of course, I started looking for mine.
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