May 18, 2014 Kitchen Gardens – Useful beauty for busy folks! Today’s busy families and working professionals may not have time to till and tend a half-acre vegetable garden, but that…
May 10, 2014 Happy Mother’s Day! Happy Mother’s Day! Pansies are fantastic cool weather flowers. Ours have been planted in our front planters for several weeks…
April 18, 2014 Kids Grow Club Growing like Mad! Last week the Van Putte Gardens Kids Grow Club had their annual spring meeting, which actually turned out to be…
March 3, 2014 Get Ready, Get Set, Start Your Seeds! The snow has been flying all winter long, and most of us are longing for something, ANYTHING green! Our seed…
July 6, 2013 Let’s Talk Tomatoes Growing your own tomatoes and other veggies has great benefits for your physical, social, and mental health, and just a…
June 28, 2013 How to Win vs. Deer, Rabbits & Squirrels in the Garden Aren’t they cute? Until they start chomping away… “Life finds a way.” Though furry bunny rabbits, 1/2 pound squirrels and…
May 17, 2013 Be a Square! (-foot gardener) People often confuse square-foot gardening with simple raised bed gardening, and there are some pretty cool differences. Basically, square-foot gardening…