Oh No, It’s Coming Your Way The Tropical Grower is sharing some of our ‘How To’ Tips on Preparing Your Garden for Storms in the hopes of saving some planties. With the passing of Hurricane Idalia, as forecasted, the ‘I’ named storm missed us this year. Whoosh! My prep for it was minimal. Unlike for…
Get the Mud Off Your Shoes The Tropical Grower is sharing How to Create a Rock or Shell Path this week in the hopes you’ll get the mud off your shoes. Both Rock and Shell paths, or whole areas, add texture to your garden. Layers of interest, contract, and color. They define space. Give your…
Do You Have Dragons? The Tropical Grower is talking taming plants this week with How to Train Your Plants. We definitely have some dragons, also known as heavily growing planties, here in our Tropical Zone. Whether you are Growing Tropical or find your green in more northern regions, some form of Training is necessary to…
The Fantastically Simple Grow The Tropical Grower is adding wildflowers to the mix with How to Grow Wildflowers in Your Yard because I was inspired. A single Wildflower is beautiful, but a field of them is magical. Absolutely inspiring. This week I’m up on My Daddy’s mountain for a visit, and the wildflowers climbing the…
Fancy, Huh? The Tropical Grower is featuring another one of our favorites this week with How to Grow Red Lobster Claw Heliconia. Its large thin paddle leaf stalks are distinctly Tropical, filling an area and finishing with the amazing bright Red Lobster Claws. We loved the red show so much, I transplanted it into several…
The Stuff Salads are Made Of. The Tropical Grower is finishing up our growing your own food at home series this week with How to Grow Leafy Greens. Yup, Lettuce. I’m a fan. In fact, it’s an extremely odd day if I don’t have a salad for at least one meal. If it has steak…
Yup, the Brassicas Continuing our growing your own food at home series, The Tropical Grower is featuring How to Grow Broccoli & Cabbage this week. Ahh, some Broccoli and Coleslaw. If you’re a fan, these pop up easy and require only light work. Repeat Harvesting is my biggest chore, of the Broccoli, not the Cabbage. …
Our Garden is Growing Strong The Tropical Grower is featuring Take That, Hurricane Ian! Transformation this week as we look at some of the major restoration that has taken place in Our Garden over the last 6 months. Yeah, it’s only been 6 months. If you haven’t seen the Hurricane damage photos, you can find…
Your Plan is Made to Fit You The Tropical Grower is featuring How to Ace Your Spring Planting Plan this week because the Actual Real Live Spring is here. Whether you have an idea, most people tell me they want to grow their own vegetables, or a desire, like a hard crusty walkway that could…
It’s Spring! Almost. The Tropical Grower has been Preparing Our Garden for Spring the last couple of weeks. Yup, it’s that time Tropical Growers, you should have already been in the yard. While most of the rest of the country was still wrapped up tight and holding off their indoor seed sowing, we had a…
