Many people are interested in planting wildlife friendly gardens. Often, one of the main things that people focus on is planting pollinator friendly plants. These pollinator plants are wonderful sources of food not only for honey bees, but also for a myriad of native bees that provide us with valuable pollination services. So, for those…
Category: Plant Highlights
The Best Heat Tolerant Greens For Summer Salads
The weather is getting hot, so we thought it might be a good time to highlight some of our favorite heat tolerant greens for those summer salads. As you might know, most typical salad greens are cool weather, short day crops. They do not perform well in intense heat, and the long days make them…
How Do I Know If My Passion Flower Produces Fruit?
We get asked a lot of questions about passion fruit. What variety to grow for fruit? Does this hybrid fruit? Can I grow fruit in my climate? Will these two plants pollinate each other to produce fruit? Can I make my own hybrids? And the list goes on. So today, we thought we would take…
Exploring The Diversity Of The Sweet Potato
The lowly sweet potato doesn’t get much attention. It is something many people only think about for holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas. White or ‘Irish’ potatoes are much more common. There are a dozen or more varieties of them taking up a whole shelf at most grocery stores while sweet potatoes are relegated to 1…