Ahhhhh, garlic!  With a variety of uses--both culinary and medicinal--it's no wonder that it is such a popular plant to grow!

The garlic plant (Allium sativum), which produces a bulb, is a member of the lily family, just like shallots, onions, and chives.  To learn more about garlic, check out this article on Wikipedia.

Here in New England, the best time to plant is around October/November, before the hard frost sets in.  In this article, I'm going to demonstrate how easy it is to plant and grow your own garlic.  Check it out...

As the days grow colder for most of us, preparations must be made to bring all your favorite plants that have been thriving in containers on your deck, patio, or what-have-you.  The most important task that must be done is to re-pot those plants that have outgrown their little plastic/terracotta/ceramic britches and get them comfy cozy for their winter residence inside the home.

I have several plants that were desperately in need of re-potting; namely, my "infamous" $2 rosemary plant, which is doing tremendously well these days and has now been re-potted three times since I rescued it from the clearance table at Russell's.

Happy Holidays, everyone!  For those of us in the colder regions of the planet, our outdoor gardening days have come to a lull for now, but that doesn't mean we can have fun indoors!

A LOT has happened since the last time I posted.  The softneck and hardneck garlic that I ordered arrived in the mail, I'm biting at the bit to harvest the sweet potatoes that are growing in my garden and the "tomato fairy" left us a surprise among the mums growing along the walkway in our front yard!

So, today I was able to get the gardens *mostly* finished.  At least they look more like gardens and not jungles requiring of a machete to hack through it.  ;-)

After a late start--and taking time to mow the back yard (I *heart* my reel mower...yay!)--I was able to finish reorganizing the garden in the back yard and finish off the walkway in the front.

Over the years, I've considered myself more of a "serious dabbler" in gardening, than anything else.  During the past decade or so, I have managed to acquire several books on gardening and even have a lifetime subscription to the National Home Gardening Club.  It was only recently that I decided to turn my casual love for gardening into a potential business.