Blooms Sow And Grow Blooms

Sow and Grow Pansies

Growing pansies and their cute cousins, violas are easy under the right conditions. Pansies and violas prefer cooler weather and definitely do not like the afternoon sun. Pansies and violas also like water and some organic plant food. I like to plant them in the spring in the hanging baskets in the front of our […]

Vegetables

Grow Bags for Potatoes and Sweet Potatoes

When harvesting potatoes and sweet potatoes from the ground or from a raised bed, you have to dig them out.  With this method, you risk bruising the skin which isn’t good for storing.   If you grow them in a grow bag, you can just dump the dirt and harvest the potatoes.   While you […]

General Gardening Vegetables

Grow Bags for Sweet Potatoes

We already talked about how to make a grow bag for potatoes. Today’s topic is making a grow bag for and planting sweet potatoes. This is the first year that I am growing sweet potatoes in a grow bag so I don’t damage them when harvesting.  Instead of digging them out,  I will gently dump the […]