Gardening tips, tricks, and advice.
Our summer here in Tennesse is quickly coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean our garden season is! We’ve been hard at work putting in our fall garden and canning all of the goodies that have come out of the garden. If you’ve struggled with pests all summer then you may want to try…
Have you ever been in your garden, admiring how good your plants are looking and suddenly notice bugs on your squash plants? Those are most likely squash bugs. These rather unassuming bugs are one of the arch nemeses of the gardener here in the south and will tear through you plants in days if not…
Summer is quickly coming to an end, which means it’s time to plan a fall garden. What is a fall garden? How do you plan for it? What goes in it and when do you plant it? We’re going to answer all your questions! Fall gardens feel a bit intimidating to many gardeners, but we promise…
Roses are something we grow A LOT of! We have around 36 bushes throughout our yard in all shapes, varieties, and colors. One of the most important things to keep these beauties in bloom is deadheading roses, so today we’re going to teach you how to deadhead roses to encourage the most blooms and keep…
Hydrangeas are such beautiful flowers but their price tag leaves a lot to be desired so today we are going to show you how to propagate hydrangea from an existing plant. We have so many varieties and colors in our garden from mop head, panicle and lace cap, to climbing and oakleaf hydrangeas. Each…
Every year we face the battle of the beetles in the garden like clockwork Japanese beetles arrive in our garden in early June to eat to ravage everything they can find. If you ever think you are in control of life, start a garden, you’ll discover quickly how wrong you are. This year our Japanese…
Every year we struggle to keep our tomato plants under control, at the beginning of the year our tomato cages work great but as the plants grow and begin bearing fruit they quickly begin leaning. We’ve tried staking each cage, but the plant ends up outgrowing the cages and laying all over the ground anyway which blocks our walkways and makes it really hard to harvest the tomatoes as they ripen.
Gardening season is upon us here in Tennessee (if you happen to live in a place that is still cold, we’re sorry!), with highs already hitting the low 80’s F. Over the last three weeks we have been busy prepping our flower beds and raised beds for plants and getting our seedlings started. We buy some at the store ready to go in the ground but we like to start a good chunk ourselves, this helps to keep the cost down and we know exactly what the plants have been exposed to. It also gives us a wider variety of plants to grow, instead of having to go with whatever the local stores have.
Spring is here, which means the gardening season is upon so we thought we’d share how to transplant your seedlings into the garden! It doesn’t matter if you are planting in the ground or using raised beds like us, we’re going to teach you how to give your plants a chance to thrive.
Spring is just a little way off which means we’re going to be starting our seedlings soon! It’s always kind of a family affair, here at Rosevine Cottage, I always love the day we all get together on the back porch around our table and start planting. I have so many memories of my grandmother laughing and filling all of the pots so we could label them and put seeds in them.