How to Take Stem Cuttings – Fill Your Backyard with Free Plants
Gardening is a beautiful way of making more space for nature in our lives. Many gardeners want to grow more plants that add food and shelter for wildlife. But a …
Fawn Neun
Fawn has loved to play in the mud since she can remember. After careers in the Air Force and the corporate world, she’s opted to return to playing in the mud. Now, she revels in a slower life as a garden writer with a licensed backyard nursery on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
There, she gardens, grows, writes, and tends to a small selection of chickens, rabbits, ducks, dogs, and family members. She focuses on gardening in a sustainable and eco-friendly way, both in her own urban homestead and through her nursery plants and resources. She plants for love, not for money, and her goal is to do her part to heal the planet by using regenerative techniques and promoting plant diversity.
You can find her blog and online nursery at SouthernGarden.net
Wild Everglades Tomatoes – The Tiny Tomato that Keeps Producing During the Hottest Summers
NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has been tracking temperatures since 1850, and one thing is clear – record-breaking temperatures are on the rise. While the cause of climate …
Stop Paying for Seed Potatoes: Grow from Spud Sprouts Instead!
There’s nothing like the flavor of home-grown potatoes! Unfortunately, the high cost of seed potatoes can be an obstacle. When you consider the cost of a pound of seed spuds …
How to Easily Grow Potatoes In a Cardboard Box
With the explosion of e-commerce over the last few years, most people seem to have far too many cardboard boxes lying around. Luckily I’ve got a great way to make …
The Florida Weave: The Easy Trick for Fast, Cheap & Easy Tomato Supports
Tomato cages are the cruelest punk on home gardeners. They’re never tall enough and always seem to fall apart as soon as the branches get unwieldy and the fruit gets …
Why Gardeners Get Companion Planting Wrong & How to Get It Right
Nature does her job when we’re not standing over her with a clipboard. But many gardeners want to improve their backyard ecosystem anyway. Everyone who’s gardened for a season or …
30 Allelopathic Plants That Can Seriously Harm Your Garden
Many passionate gardeners are turning to companion planting to reduce pesticide use. Planting different species together can provide benefits. However, some species are allelopathic plants, which means they can seriously …
The Myth Behind Using Beans to Fix Nitrogen in the Soil
Have you spent hours planting green beans around your other vegetables to “fix nitrogen” and then wondered why it never made a difference? Same, girl. Same. We’ve all been fed …
30 Plants You Can Grow for Free With Cuttings
Spring is a busy time for dedicated gardeners. Seed sowing seems to take up most of our time, as we rush against the calendar to grow healthy flower and vegetable …
10 Plants That Should Never Grow Near Peppers & 8 Beneficial Companions
Pepper plants thrive in my hot, subtropical climate. They flourish and provide tons of delicious peppers year-round. But last fall, I made a tragic mistake. I surrounded the poor things …
8 Plants You Should Never Grow Near Potatoes (& 11 Beneficial Companions)
Last fall, a fellow gardener from the Midwest made fun of me because she thought I couldn’t grow potatoes. But the joke’s on her — in Florida, it just means …
11 Tree-Planting Mistakes That Can Accidentally Kill Your Tree
It’s easy to think that nature will just take its course when you’re planting a tree. After all, forests have been growing for millions of years without human help, right? …
My Foolproof Powdery Mildew Remedy That Works In Two Weeks
More than a handful of my gardening friends have expressed envy at my mild subtropical climate. However, gardening in a hot and humid region is fraught with challenges. One of …
12 Reasons I Grow Pigeon Peas Every Year
One of my biggest complaints since evolving from growing a garden to homesteading is not having the land to grow more food for my family. While I can grow a …
How To Start Seedlings In Soil Blocks (& Why It’s The Best Way To Start Seeds)
I first ran into the concept of using soil blocks when binging market gardening videos on YouTube. Like most home gardeners, I’d originally been introduced to seed starting in cells …
My Brilliant Hack to Protect Plants from Frost and Cold Snaps in the South
Over the years, I’ve come to appreciate the mild winters we enjoy in the southern United States. However, I’ve also learned the importance of being prepared for those occasional cold …
21 Wintertime Jobs For Southern Gardeners
Southern gardeners in Zones 8 to 11 often wonder what, exactly, is winter? We get no (or rare) freezing weather. A light snowfall can make news headlines. For the most …
How I Ferment Chicken Feed for Healthy Hens & Savings
As fall moves into winter, chicken keepers face a seasonal shift — their hens are molting, and egg production slows or stops. Our chickens are molting so hard it looks …