Planting With A Purpose: Bettering Our Community and Our Health One Plant At A Time

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New Year – New Projects! 5 Ways To Get Your Garden In Shape For The Spring Planting

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from the BTTR Family to you! Thank you for coming along with us for a full year (can you believe it!) If you haven’t checked out...

6 Mid-Winter Tasks to Tackle This Season

I know it is probably very cold where you are and even more so depending on the zone that you are in but there are still a couple of things that we can do around the...

Top 4 Winter Pests To Look Out For This Season

If you are anything like me, you may not want to check up on your garden daily in the winter that you would do during the spring and summer months. It is important to...

Urban Rainwater Collection – Collecting From The Balcony

Now every once in a while, you will get a thunderstorm or rain shower that you wished you had a system out to collect all of that rain to water your plants for the next...

Let’s Talk All Things Mulch – What It Is And How It Helps

Mulching is the act of putting organic material down around our plants to aid in a multitude of things around your garden. Today we are going to talk about some of the...

Starting a Garden Journal – Proper Planning and Preparation

Every season there is something that can be done in our gardens, whether that is actually planting things in the ground, prepping the soil with the right nutrients for...

Enjoying What We Grow – Starting A Tea Garden – A Beginners Guide

I don’t know about you, but I occasionally enjoy a good cup of tea every once in a while. If that sounds like something that you are also interested in, consider...

More Harm Than Good – 10 Tips For Your Garden -Things To Watch Out For

Gardening is a past time that we all enjoy but there are some things that we have to watch out for as we go along with our planting journey. These might be things that...

Ready Set Go! Prepping for Fall/Winter Planting — Plants and Other Ideas

Sometimes as new gardeners we might think that the end of summer means the end of the ability to harvest fresh veggies from out garden. This is simply not true! There are...

Planting With A Purpose: Bettering Our Community and Our Health One Plant At A Time

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