It's fun to find one of HHH's window box photos in this summer's Monadnock Table Magazine. The article is titled Growing a Kitchen Garden. Issue 78 • July / August 2024 The entire article can be found online at:...
🌱ESPECIALLY hanging or perched containers. Think window boxes hung on a fence, one pot perched on top of another, and double buckets on a porch. This strategy keeps the vegetable plants out of reach of our wildlife neighbors and friends. No more time spent spraying...
PARTICULARLY hanging or perched containers. Think window boxes hung on a fence, one pot perched on top of another, and double buckets on a porch. This strategy keeps your vegetable plants out of reach of our wildlife neighbors and friends. This approach also...
Mint plants can be a great sustainability plant when sited strategically in your home landscape.
Exciting! It’s finally time to put raised, food garden beds in the backyard of the Healthy Home Habitats Demonstration Gardens. These have been a long time coming. It took several years to accurately decide the best sun location, what type and style of raised bed, and...
Do you ever tire of pulling the baby Oak trees that sprout up in your landscapes every season? They are, as I’m sure you know, courtesy of our forgetful squirrels that bury them to eat later, and then forget them. They are also nature’s way of reminding us that we...
The morning air is cooler now. You know it’s getting to be late summer, and we’re beginning to think about, don’t say it, Fall. You’ve mowed the lawn, picked vegetables, cut flowers to bring inside all season, or not. Now is a great time to think about what went...
STEP ONE: Emma and her Mom Theresa embark on this pea pod growing adventure together. They set pea seeds to soak overnight so that the seeds are ready to sprout when planted (This overnight soaking helps all pea and/or other hard-coated seeds). MATERIALS NEEDED: *Pea...
Many of us are creating pollinator gardens, buying native plants and shifting to more ecologically beneficial landscape management to support the important insects that pollinate our vegetables and flowers. These bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and even some...
For beginners & older gardeners, it’s Too Much to Have a Whole Garden On The Ground, right!? We’re new or our available time is short or our knees are just too old. Watch now to feel confidant about a small, beginner project. Feel great about also saving resources,...