Free Organic Gardening Book – How To Grow Peppers
Pepper seedlings It’s way too cold to put any warm weather plants out including peppers. But it’s not way too cold out to figure out if you want to grow peppers and if you do, what kind you want to...
View ArticleFree Organic Gardening Book: How To Grow Eggplant
Organic gardening is so easy. Another week and another free chapter of my organic gardening book, Grow So Easy; Organic Gardening for the Rest of Us! This week I will share some tips and secrets for...
View ArticleGrow So Easy – Growing Garlic
Growing garlic is easy. I got lucky when I married Italian because garlic is, was and always will be one of my favorite foods in the kitchen. And it’s one of my favorites to plant. Garlic is another...
View ArticleHow To Plant Asparagus, Again!
My husband and I got good news last Thursday, really good news. His most recent PET scan was clear! We did a little jig then sat down and tried to let it sink in a bit. No new melanoma! No metastases....
View ArticleTransplanting Tomato Seedlings
It’s moving day for my tomato seedlings — their first moving day, actually. Tomatoes ready for transplant My seedlings move a total of 3 times after they emerge, first into 3 inch pots then, into 5...
View ArticleSpring @ Chez Mucci
Spring at Chez Mucci. Guess how I know it’s Spring? Nope, not trees starting to leaf out. Not daffodils or robins or even dandelions. And it’s not the darkling skies of an approaching thunderstorm or...
View ArticleDefending My Garden!
2019 garden in progress My garden feeds 4 families, every year. It feeds my soul every day. It is a place of refuge for me, the birds and yes, even the rabbits. Recently, the husband of a dear friend...
View Article2020 Organic Garden Update
2020 Garden Growing! It’s heading for the end of June and my garden has taken off! Like most gardeners, May and early June are spent in a holding pattern, wondering if the plants you nurtured from seed...
View ArticleFigs This Summer!
It’s official! My Chicago Hardy Fig is going to give me figs this summer, lots and lots and lots of figs! Very happy Chicago Hardy fig. This fig has only been in the ground for 2 years. This is her...
View ArticleGrow So Easy Organic – Find Free Tools to Start Your Garden
Want to start organic gardening but don’t want to spend a lot of money? You can and it’s pretty darned easy. Unlike traditional gardening, if you go organic, there are a lot of things you will NEVER...
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