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 […]

Bloom Varieties Blooms

Mountain Laurel

When I first purchased the Carousel Mountain Laurel, I had it in the front of my house which gets the afternoon sun and our trees were not yet big enough to provide any shade.  This spot was a big mistake because Mountain Laurel needs part sun to shade.  Since I moved it two summers ago to the shady […]

Blooms

Showy Pink Primrose

The Showy Pink Primrose has a pale pink flower and a pale yellow middle.   The butterflies really love this flower.  It is a Zone 4 plant which means it will tolerate the cold. While the plant tag indicates that it is a mounding perennial that grows between 12 inches high and wide.  I would say […]