Indoor Plants

I’ll be honest the first time I tried growing broccoli, I planted it in July because that’s when I happened to have free time in the garden. Big mistake.

No backyard? No problem. You can still grow real, edible blueberries indoors if you get a handful of things right mainly the pot, the soil, and the light. It’s

Sandy soil has a bit of a bad reputation among gardeners, but when it comes to blueberries, it’s actually a decent starting point. Blueberries naturally prefer loose, well-draining ground,

When we bought our house, the backyard soil was basically clay the kind that turns rock-hard in summer and sticky enough to lose a shoe in after rain. I

A few summers ago, I planted three blueberry bushes along the back fence, watered them religiously, and waited. By July the leaves had gone yellow with odd green veins

Growing up, my grandmother had a small blueberry patch behind her house in a region that saw real winters the kind where the ground freezes solid for months. Every

Ask most people where blueberries grow, and they’ll picture Maine or Michigan cold winters, frosty mornings, the whole New England postcard. So when I first tried planting a blueberry

A lot of people try growing blueberries once, get a handful of sad berries or none at all, and give up thinking they just don’t have “a green thumb.”