OKC: How to Start Growing Your Own Food @ Myriad Botanical Gardens on Saturday, Feb. 29, 10 am
Come join us at Myriad Botanical Gardens for a class about everything you need to how about how to start growing your own food on February 29, 2020!
Chamomile: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Chamomile is not only a beautiful addition to your garden with its ‘daisy-like’ white and yellow flowers, but is great for its usefulness as a companion plant. Chamomile helps to repel pests from neighboring plants because of its strong smell. This blog post talks about how you can plant and grow your own chamomile with our free mobile app!
Cilantro/Coriander: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Cilantro is one of our most commonly used herbs in the kitchen. If you let it go to seed, you can get a second herb from the same plant: coriander! Both versions of this plant will give your dish a tasty kick!
How to Manage Earwigs!
The most characteristic feature of this fast-moving reddish-brown to black insect is the pair of approximately an inch long pincers at the tip of a long abdomen. Earwigs thrive in tight, dark, moist places such as under stones, in mulch, soil, (compost & vermicompost bins), and anywhere there is an accumulation of plant debris.
Why We Grow Different Types of Beans & How We Use Them
We grow a variety of different types of beans throughout the year. We pretty much are growing a version of peas and beans year round where we live!
Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup
This Instant Pot Sweet Potato Soup recipe is a great addition to your cold-weather meal ideas. We usually have an abundance of sweet potatoes that we grow in our garden around this time so this recipe works great to add in a lot of our fresh ingredients from the garden!
Add Healthy Herbs & Veggies Into Your Pasta Sauce!
Pasta sauce is probably one of the easiest things to sneak in some extra nutrients without your kids noticing! 🙂 We put a plethora of herbs and vegetables into our sauce without our kids even knowing!
The Most Popular Plants, Pests, & Health Benefits of 2019
2019 was a great year for growing! We’ve collected some stats as to which plants and pests were most popular and are excited to share with you our findings!
Join Us at the OKC Home + Garden Show Jan 17th, 18th, & 19th!
Come join us at the OKC Home + Garden Show at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds from January 17-19, 2020!
St John’s Wort: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
St John’s Wort is commonly known for its medicinal purposes. What is not as commonly known is just how beautiful this plant’s flowers are! Beneficials such as bees and butterflies will be drawn to this beauty in your yard as well helping to pollinate your garden. St John’s Wort makes a terrific companion plant for many of your other plants!