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Watch for these upcoming articles on vegetable gardening

March 23, 2010

It’s vegetable planting season so watch for these upcoming articles Planting Your Spring Vegetables This one will discuss the pros and cons of beginning with seeds verses buying starts at the local garden center. The Basics of Growing Heirloom Tomatoes I’m seeing them everywhere now, from the farmers market to the supersized grocery store (yes [...]

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Natural Aphrodisiacs

February 15, 2010

Homegrown Aphrodisiacs As requested by BJSUPERMIX, who posted a comment on my blog, I decided to look into and report back on some naturally occurring aphrodisiacs. Since this is a blog about gardening (usually) I focused my research on plant-based compounds and stayed away from the rhinoceros horns and the Zimbabwe Dung Beetle stuff. Initially [...]

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How to Trim Roses

February 8, 2010

My Tips for Trimming Roses Excerpt from my eBook HOW TO PRUNE ROSES available at Rainforth Home and Garden HERE It’s that time of year again in the rose world when gardeners are cleaning their tools off, sharpening their shears, and waiting for a break in the weather so they can get out and begin [...]

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Great Gift Ideas for Gardeners

December 6, 2009

Christmas and Birthday Gifts for Gardeners It’s that time of year again so I thought I’d make a few suggestions for Christmas gifts that gardeners might enjoy receiving. These would also make great birthday gifts, mother’s day or father’s day gifts, open house gifts, thank you gifts… I know that for some of you to [...]

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Smelly Trees and Stinky Plants

October 10, 2009

It’s well known that beautiful fragrances can be derived from plants and their flowers. Roses, lilacs jasmine are a few beautiful scents that come to mind. As with most things, there is also an opposite, and this time of year the opposites of the beautiful fragrances become evident. Summer and fall seem to be a [...]

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How to Grow GIANT Pumpkins

September 26, 2009

Living in Florida it’s difficult to tell the seasons apart but certain holidays have a way of reminding me that things are about to change in most other areas of the country. Halloween is one of those occasions. My kids start weeks ahead discussing their costumes and getting excited about which friends with and where [...]

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Lombard Street AKA Candyland

August 24, 2009

Seeing the recent photos on the Internet of Lombard Street being transformed into a Candyland replica really brought back memories. Most of my early career in horticulture-related activities took place in Northern California. The City was just across the water and weekend trips to explore San Francisco were always fun. The city is so expansive [...]

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Need a solution for why my tomatoes crack and split?

June 19, 2008

How to keep your tomatoes from cracking and splitting Excerpt from my eBook GROWING JUICY DELICIOUS TOMATOES available at Rainforth Home and Garden. IF YOU HAVE LARGE ROTTEN SPOTS ON YOUR TOMATOES SEE THIS POST HERE Welcome! Thanks for stopping my little website. Hopefully you’ll find some useful advice here. Hopefully greensideupblog.com will be your [...]

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I found my camera battery charger!

June 6, 2008

I love looking at all the photos of peoples gardens on the gardening blogs and wanted to share a few of mine. I’ve been without a functioning camera for a while now but recently found my charger and spent a few minutes shooting some photos of flowers in my yard. I hope you enjoy them. [...]

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Is dog pee killing your grass? Here are some solutions.

June 5, 2008

A problem I am asked for advice on regularly is how to stop my dog’s urine (or the neighbors’ dogs’ urine!) from killing my grass. Here is an Excerpt from my newest eBook on GROWING GREAT LAWNS available HERE at Rainforth Home and Garden. For my post on repairing lawn click (here) If you want [...]

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