Gary Grows at Heritage Cottage

Urban Farming, Small Scale Gardening

Tag: gardening

  • Gary’s 10 Non- Negotiable Rules for Growing Tomatoes in Containers

    Gary’s 10 Non- Negotiable Rules for Growing Tomatoes in Containers

    Since we are celebrating Easter this weekend, and in Mississippi Good Friday is the go date to plant your warm season veggies (even though there is a 6 week swing with Good Friday, I wrote a blog about that, The Moon, the Cross and Tomato Planting on Good Friday , this is a good time…

  • The Moon, the Cross, and the Tomato: Understanding Good Friday Planting In the Deep South

    Every spring about this time, I start getting the same question from gardeners all across the deep South: “Dr. B, is it true you’re supposed to plant your garden on Good Friday?” And I always smile, because that question is as Southern as sweet tea at a church picnic. Let me tell y’all something, like…

  • Growing Native Milkweeds

    Growing Native Milkweeds

    Almost every gardener I’ve met in the last 15 years seems to have questions about growing milkweed because of the Monarch butterfly. In the deep south perhaps the most common milkweed found in nurseries is the tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica. Where I live on the MS Gulf coast these plants are perennial and pose the…

  • A Garden Visit and Something New

    A Garden Visit and Something New

    A couple of weeks ago, while travelling to visit family and a little vacay, I had the opportunity to catch up with an old Clemson University classmate at his garden in Beech Island, SC. Jenks Farmer is an author, garden designer and a pretty darn good grower and authority on everything Crinum. Since it was…