Best garden tools for beginning gardeners ....add your own in a comment! Anytime is a good time to evaluate your garden tools. During the…
Part Two-Planting the bales In May, Tractor Man and I lugged four bales of straw down our slope and set them up as a garden! …
For history lovers and plant lovers: I learned Latin names of plants from my mother at an early age and become a logophile, a lover…
A Flea Market Straw Bale Garden? Yes! Recently I decided to try the technique called straw bale gardening, after an online chat with the author, Joel…
Flea Market Gardener's guide to 9 successful types of garden containers Flea Market containers can be a bit tricky to plant and care for...they're not…
Straw Bale Gardens: A fun experiment! An imaginative way to upcycle straw bales and grow all the vegetables you need,...easily... Learn how straw bale gardens…
Saving money by growing the most expensive veggies Sowing smart! What vegetables can you grow this year to save the most money at the grocery…
Starting seeds in a 'Flea Market' way The trend to start from seed is hot, hot, hot, right now and our Flea Market Gardeners are…
Seeds planted and protected with recycled plastics ... Winter sowing is one of those revolutionary ideas that can change a gardener’s world forever, especially if…
Seed saving tips for the Flea Market Gardener! Seed saving is a fascinating hobby. Near the end of the growing season, it's natural for us…
There's nothing like the first storm of the season to remind us that we need to properly prepare our Flea Market Gardening ponds, birdbaths, totems…
Bug love? One thing we especially love here at Flea market Gardening is our wildlife, which is proved when looking at our Butterflies, Birds, Bugs and…
Get Ready For Summer! Here at Flea Market Gardening, the topic came up on gardening in hot dry weather typical of summer conditions in much…
"From whence arrived the praying mantis? From outer space, or lost Atlantis? glimpse the grin, green metal mug at masks the pseudo-saintly bug, Orthopterous, also…
Our favorite flowers for junk containers Petunias are a Flea Market Gardening standby for rusty or galvanized containers. Have you grown them? I haven't much…
Simple, smart and easy...growing a SMALL vegetable garden Many people grow large vegetable gardens. I grow a small one that fits in five wash tubs. …
This is a bit off-topic from our usual Flea Market Gardening, but skunks are a reality in a country garden when you have dogs. I…
Protecting a gardener's hands: Your advice... Sometimes a post on our Flea Market Gardening Facebook page just strikes a chord with everyone. This one did…
Oh, my back! Puttering and putzing around the garden is how we get seduced into doing more and bigger projects that can really wear us…
How to plant green onion tops! Did you know that when green onions get a bit old in the fridge you can plant them in…