Gardening 101: Get Started!

So you want to start a garden… but where do you start?  This is something I get questions about every spring, but it’s especially relevant this year with us all stuck at home in quarantine.  Here are five basics to get you going: Know your USDA plant...

July Garden Update

My garden — I have a small container garden on a 12th floor balcony that has around 20 square feet of space planted. The balcony faces west, but is covered, so I get a maximum of 6 hours of direct sun in the summer (and sadly none in December and January)....