Home and Garden Ideas

Spring is just around the corner.   I just saw a few robins for the first time last week and within the next week or so our weather is going to be in the 50’s.  It’s still to early to plant a garden in our area but it’s a good time to start planning for one.

I love our garden.  We plant lots of tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, green onions, zucchini and green beans.  We normally purchase small plants.  The only seeds we use are for the green beans.  We tried once to start out with seeds but it just didn’t work for us so we purchased the smaller plants and plant those. Continue reading “Start out small garden with a few tomato plants”

I’m here to show you how to pot and grow arugula indoors or at the nursery always try to buy healthy plant material. This is pretty healthy. You’ll have some yellowing leaves because you know they’re being grown outdoors. So sometimes they dry out but these are predominantly pretty healthy.

Next you’ll select a pot such as a clay pot that will drain very easily. Put a piece of broken pottery in the bottom for drainage. Take a little organic potting soil which is primarily peat moss leaf mold redwood. Compost a little bit of sponge rock. Take the arugula put it in the center place it firmly. Take the potting soil then put it around the plant pot it firmly around the sides. I like to shake it so now we have our pot in about two to three weeks. Continue reading “Grow Arugula Indoors”