Gary Grows at Heritage Cottage

Urban Farming, Small Scale Gardening

Tag: plants

  • 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…

  • 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…