Renee's Blog
Growing Alpine Strawberries From Seed
Step-by-step instructions on how to start and grow petite Alpine strawberries from seed. You'll have lots of very attractive mounding perennial plants that yield scrumptious, jewel-like red little berries with exquisite sweet flavor all season, year after year.
Growing Alpine Strawberries From Seed
Step-by-step instructions on how to start and grow petite Alpine strawberries from seed. You'll have lots of very attractive mounding perennial plants that yield scrumptious, jewel-like red little berries with exquisite sweet flavor all season, year after year.
Pinching Basil to Promote Long Harvests
Everyone loves basil (we carry 13 varieties) for its wonderful flavor and fragrance. Each season we look forward to growing an abundance of basil in our trial garden to use in everyday cooking, delicious fresh pesto sauce and aromatic herbal...
Pinching Basil to Promote Long Harvests
Everyone loves basil (we carry 13 varieties) for its wonderful flavor and fragrance. Each season we look forward to growing an abundance of basil in our trial garden to use in everyday cooking, delicious fresh pesto sauce and aromatic herbal...
How To Grow Cilantro For Longer Harvesting
A step-by-step demo from Lindsay on how to grow cilantro from seed for the best and longest harvests of this indispensable leafy kitchen garden favorite.
How To Grow Cilantro For Longer Harvesting
A step-by-step demo from Lindsay on how to grow cilantro from seed for the best and longest harvests of this indispensable leafy kitchen garden favorite.
Cutting Basil For Lasting Harvests
Lindsay shares her expert techniques for extending basil growing season.
Cutting Basil For Lasting Harvests
Lindsay shares her expert techniques for extending basil growing season.
Gardening With Small Children
What better place to stimulate babies’ and toddlers’ senses and cultivates their growing minds than in the garden? When my daughter, Emilia , was a baby, she'd grab the tendrils of vining snap peas, kick with excitement when I'd rub...
Gardening With Small Children
What better place to stimulate babies’ and toddlers’ senses and cultivates their growing minds than in the garden? When my daughter, Emilia , was a baby, she'd grab the tendrils of vining snap peas, kick with excitement when I'd rub...
My Favorite Herbs
Having lots of fresh herbs is a source of continuing delight for me every season. Most culinary herbs are both easy and reliable to grow. Using them in abundance for everyday cooking is a delicious luxury every gardening cook will...
My Favorite Herbs
Having lots of fresh herbs is a source of continuing delight for me every season. Most culinary herbs are both easy and reliable to grow. Using them in abundance for everyday cooking is a delicious luxury every gardening cook will...
Delicious Lavender
I've always felt a special affinity for lavender. Its heady sweet scent is my favorite floral perfume, and the soft color of the blossoms and the gray-green of the foliage are highlights in my garden. I indulged my lavender fantasies...
Delicious Lavender
I've always felt a special affinity for lavender. Its heady sweet scent is my favorite floral perfume, and the soft color of the blossoms and the gray-green of the foliage are highlights in my garden. I indulged my lavender fantasies...
Herbal Teas and Vinegars
The end of the summer gardening season is bittersweet, but has its own rewards. This is the month that almost all kitchen herbs are producing in abundance, ready to snip in big bunches whenever you feel like enjoying them in...
Herbal Teas and Vinegars
The end of the summer gardening season is bittersweet, but has its own rewards. This is the month that almost all kitchen herbs are producing in abundance, ready to snip in big bunches whenever you feel like enjoying them in...
Cooking With Fresh Basil
There are many different kinds of basil you can grow and enjoy from seed. Renee shares some of her fresh basil recipes: Pesto Basil Salad Dressing and Basil Leaf Vinegar.
Cooking With Fresh Basil
There are many different kinds of basil you can grow and enjoy from seed. Renee shares some of her fresh basil recipes: Pesto Basil Salad Dressing and Basil Leaf Vinegar.
Lavender and Roses from Seed
Lavender and roses have been beloved garden plants throughout their long history of cultivation and their timeless beauty is easily adaptable to changing gardening fashions. In the formal gardens of the Romans, who bathed in lavender and rose-scented waters, in...
Lavender and Roses from Seed
Lavender and roses have been beloved garden plants throughout their long history of cultivation and their timeless beauty is easily adaptable to changing gardening fashions. In the formal gardens of the Romans, who bathed in lavender and rose-scented waters, in...
When to Plant in Texas
Information courtesy of Aggie Horticulture, a service of the Texas A&M University System Horticulture program.
When to Plant in Texas
Information courtesy of Aggie Horticulture, a service of the Texas A&M University System Horticulture program.
Luxury from the Garden: Alpine Strawberries
The jewel-like fruits of Alpine strawberries (Fragaria Vesca Sempervirens) are a special delicacy you can enjoy every summer. To me their flavor combines the essence of strawberries, roses and pineapples. Also known by their romantic French name, Fraises des Bois,...
Luxury from the Garden: Alpine Strawberries
The jewel-like fruits of Alpine strawberries (Fragaria Vesca Sempervirens) are a special delicacy you can enjoy every summer. To me their flavor combines the essence of strawberries, roses and pineapples. Also known by their romantic French name, Fraises des Bois,...
Herbal Remedies from the Garden
Relaxing with aromatic teas or enjoying body care products from herbs you’ve grown and dried yourself is both therapeutic and satisfying. Preparing herbal remedies is also a wonderful way to become better acquainted with your plants — their fragrances and...
Herbal Remedies from the Garden
Relaxing with aromatic teas or enjoying body care products from herbs you’ve grown and dried yourself is both therapeutic and satisfying. Preparing herbal remedies is also a wonderful way to become better acquainted with your plants — their fragrances and...