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Envy Carrots grown from seed mat Seed Mat – Radish If you haven’t tried our seed mats before, they’re a really simple way of laying out your garden and growing vegetables quickly. Each mat contains soil and seeds; simply place the mat in the garden and provide adequate water – they practically grow Read More 
We all want to see butterflies and bumblebees in the garden – but did you know that some of those less-than-beautiful bugs might be helping your plants thrive? Can you identify a lacewing – and, more importantly, can you attract them to your garden? One of our favorite gardening associations put out this list of Read More 
The Cardboard Garden is a test picked up from gardeners in England that use cardboard laid down first and mounded with compost and soil. This is to help avoid weeds and eliminates the need to roto-till, which wreaks havoc with soil life. For the soil, I used recycled nursery media. The test is planted Read More 
An update from the Gardens Alive! test garden! Peppers are transplanted and grown here at our test garden. I have 2 test varieties, one hot and one sweet and the others are Tabasco. I will harvest the Tabasco peppers in the fall and make Tabasco sauce with them. It takes 2 years for the mash Read More 
Many gardeners know that keeping plants safe in their earliest stages can be tough. This year, Gardens Alive! is selling the plant protectors we use in our test gardens! Thermal Plant Protectors are a simple, cost-efficient way to protect your seedlings and small trees from the elements. Gardens Alive owner and founder Niles Kinerk uses Read More 
Recently, we received this question from one of our Tipp City Community Gardeners – Question: Craig – what is up with all the clover planted along the pathways and along the inside edge of “my” plot? Won’t the clover attract rabbits? And spread like crazy? I plan to take out the edge between my plot Read More |
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