Get Growing!

Writte by Amy Grisak, Living in Season
Spring doesn’t always cooperate. Sometimes winter clings on until June, or it heats up to mid-summer temperatures sending the cool season crops bolting to seed overnight. Or, if you just didn’t get to the garden, have no fear – you can still plant some veggies and enjoy them until [...]

Taking Aim on Pesky Pests

Written By:  Amy Grisak
This time of summer there’s a lot more eating your garden than just your family. Unwanted insects use your veggies as a 24/7 buffet making a mess of some plants and completely destroying others.
The best way to stay ahead of the little nasties is to [...]

Spring your home

The best and instant way to make your home feel like spring is flowers. Right now Easter spring flowers are everywhere. Pick up a simple six inch pot of lilacs or hyacinth at the grocery store. When you get home remove the plant and place it into a small Easter basket. How cute.
A few light [...]

Bring the outside of your home to life

Bring color and life to the outside of your home by adding some pots and containers filled with beautiful spring flowers!
For container flower gardens, follow the golden rules:

Select the best types of plants for your environment, water and feed them according to their needs, and prune them on a regular basis to make the blooms [...]

Know your zone before you plant

Do you know when your last frost is? How about what grows well in your climate? HGTV has taken the guess work out of it for you by providing a map of zones. Simply type in your zip code and find out when your first and last frost is and they even give you [...]

How to get ready for a Garage Sale

With spring cleaning creeping up on us and the sun starting to shine just a little bit brighter it may be just about the right time to start preparing for a garage sale.
Garage sales, also called rummage sales, and yard sales in certain parts of the country are a great way to clean up a [...]

Seed starting basics

Written By: Amy Grisak
It’s only about a month until spring, and is great time to start seeds indoors. With a little planning, you can start most of your veggies yourself allowing you to save a little money, as well as growing those special varieties that are hard to find in greenhouses. Here are a [...]

Spring Cleaning 101

It may still be snowing out, but now is the time to sit down and write out your spring cleaning check list. What kind of schedule will you have? Do you want to do it in one week? One month? Make your schedule now. Also a list of supplies you may need, and any organizational [...]

Make your own cleaners

Making your own cleaners is the best way to clean on a dime – if you have a few simple “ingredients” in your home, you can make everything you need to keep everything sparkling and fresh, and it won’t break the bank!  Here are a few recipes that you will want to make sure and [...]

Lasagna Gardening

Written by Amy Grisak
Lasagna gardening sounds delicious just from the name, but it’s a great term for what others call “sheet composting” or composting in layers. In the end, it’s a fantastic method to create highly productive soil without much effort.
The name is from the book Lasagna Gardening by Patricia Lanza. The beauty of this [...]

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