Summer Savory: How to Grow and When to Plant in Your Backyard or Patio Garden!
Summer savory is a tasty herb that is a great addition to the garden and works great as a companion plant for your vegetables
Summer savory is a tasty herb that is a great addition to the garden and works great as a companion plant for your vegetables
Q: What do you do with pepper and tomato plants over the cool seasons? Do they survive the winter outside or do they come back in the spring?
Marjoram is a beautiful evergreen plant that is a great addition to your garden. It helps to attract bees, butterflies, and birds.
Apple trees can be grown in even the smallest of backyards by keeping pruned down. Growing your own apples can be such a tasty reward and you will not regret it! There are many varieties of apples and they have different temperaments for your climate. The best zones to grow apple trees in are USDA Zones 4-8.
Aloe Vera makes a beautiful addition to your indoor succulent or tropical garden! It can be planted outdoors if you live in zone 10 or above, otherwise Aloe Vera makes a great indoor plant for your windowsill.
Elderberries grow on large shrubs. They produce beautiful white flowers in the spring followed by the dark berries in the summer. This large shrub is a terrific attractant to beneficial insects and hummingbirds as well!
Raspberries come in various shades of red and gold. These berries are super juicy and are very flavorful! Raspberry bushes will continue to give fruit year after year, however, it takes 2 years for the plant to first produce berries. You can cut any canes that produce fruit at the base after the season is over since they won’t produce again.
Blueberry bushes are a great addition to your garden! These bushes are easy to grow and care for and thrive in acidic soil. You may need to add an acidifier to the soil to help these bushes thrive in your garden. They will not produce fruit until it is a couple years old, but patience is a virtue! Enjoy these tasty berries!
Grapes are one of the most popular fruits to eat but are not commonly grown in many backyards. As beautiful and tasty as they are, grapes should definitely be grown more!Â
I’m excited to share that I’ll be the closing keynote speaker at the 2018 Thunder Plains developer conference on November 1! Thunder Plains is is a web and mobile developer conference that focuses on Community, JavaScript and related tech that makes the web interesting. It’s run by Techlahoma, a volunteer-run non-profit dedicated to advancing Oklahomans through accessible tech training and community building. They have events daily at StarSpace46 and this is their yearly large developer conference. […]