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Growing food doesn’t need to be hard or expensive. You don’t need a bunch of raised beds or expensive planter boxes. If you have an area in your yard about 30 feet long and 10 feet wide give or take, you can grow a pretty good amount of food for very little money and take […]

It takes everything in me to wait until nap time to pull a few weeds or pick the tomatoes… But, monkey see, monkey do… only my little monkey isn’t quite so discriminating about his choices. He zeroes in on a weed (aka lettuce plant) and yanks then shreds. All tomatoes are balls and all zucchini […]

We bought our forever home five years ago and decided immediately that we would grow a substantial amount of food on our large suburban lot to offset our grocery bill. So we went and we did what so many gung-ho gardeners do – we went to Lowes and bought a few of each – berry […]

I want to talk to you about my favorite weed. Not THAT weed! The Spanish Needle, bidens alba. It goes by many names – beggar tick, Spanish needle, shephard’s needle… I have defended these plants to many suspicious neighbors, converting some and getting some “crazy weed loving lady” blank stares from others. Many people consider this plant […]

  One of my favorite and easiest plants to grow is longevity spinach (Gynura procumbens). It is a perennial in the Tampa Bay area unless there is a freeze, then it may die back to the roots and return in the spring. In areas with colder temperatures, it can be grown as an annual or […]