How to Grow Amazing Apples Your Family Will Love

Last updated: October 14, 2016 by Rootwell Products Inc.

How to Grow Amazing Apples
If you are looking for a fun fall activity then visiting your local apple orchard is a must. This past weekend, my family and I visited The McIntosh Orchard in beautiful South Haven, Michigan. With the apple blossom being the state flower, Michigan is a state that is sure to produce some amazing apples. The orchard hosted row after row of ripe, crisp, juicy apples. The children ran up and down each isle of apple trees, picking apples and placing them into big wooden barrels to be weighed and brought home.

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9 Autumn Tips on How to Winterize Your Garden

Last updated: October 15, 2016 by Rootwell Products Inc.

9 Autumn Tips on How to Winterize Your Garden

If you are an avid gardener, you might be trying to find great ways to prepare your garden for the winter. Using the resources from your own garden will prove to be your greatest asset. Leaves, dead plants, and compost are all you need to help enrich your soil for the upcoming spring. Here are 9 great tips for preparing your garden in the autumn for the winter.

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The Amazing Chrysanthemum: Must Have Fall Flower for Every Yard

Last updated: October 19, 2016 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Chrysanthemum plants

Imagine an array of bright yellows, dazzling burgundies, and stunning purple flowers placed elegantly around your yard this fall. Look no further than the amazing Chrysanthemum, nicked named “mum.”

Chrysanthemum plants are the perfect flower for fall. With their amazing range of fall colors, shapes, and sizes these mums will add that perfect pop of color and texture to your yard. They can be an amazing stand-alone plant that sits invitingly at your front door, placed lined up in a window box, or planted into the ground. They are sure to make any landscape shine.

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6 Astounding Benefits to Community Gardening

Last updated: August 10, 2015 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Benefits of community gardening

As a child, I would walk along the streets of Houston, Texas planting acorn after acorn with my grandfather. He spent years of his life collecting hundreds of acorns and the trees he planted with his community gardening group still stand and continue to grow today. It seems right to garden alongside other human beings, as if that’s what people were made to do. Gardening, when shared with others, can be a special experience where people learn, bond, and create.

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How to Protect Your Garden From Predators Naturally

Last updated: August 3, 2015 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Baby raccoon in garden

The first time I decided to add corn to my home garden, I was so excited. I had visions of warm summer nights eating dinner outside with fresh corn on our plates. I planted those seeds with great expectations. Hours were spent watering, weeding, and maintaining them.

As the corn began to grow, the joy of harvesting was mounting until one afternoon. I looked out our kitchen window and saw a squirrel peeling and chowing down on my home grown sweet corn. I was furious – all that work only to have my vegetable eaten by a squirrel.

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Comprehensive Guide on Growing Organic Raspberries

Last updated: July 6, 2015 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Comprehensive Guide on Growing Organic Raspberries

As a child, I remember picking wild raspberries walking around the mountains of Virginia, and plopping them in my mouth as fast as humanly possible. I could not believe that such an amazing fruit was growing wild and free and in abundance.

As an adult, I am shocked at how much raspberries can cost at the supermarket. Because of my love for raspberries, and my desire to keep cost down, when I started my own home garden, I knew that raspberries had to be included. However, I felt intimidated as a new gardener on how to grow them.

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Organic Gardening with Children: Amazing Benefits and Tips

Last updated: May 25, 2021 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Organic gardening with children

Inviting children to enter into the gardening experience with you can be one of the greatest gifts that you can offer them. The lessons that they will gain are endless.

Children are naturally curious and eager to get their hands dirty, making a garden a natural choice for a place to learn about the life cycle of plants, become environmentally aware, and feel empowered to create and grow their own food.

Not only can gardening be a great place to learn, it can also develop a special bond between you and your children. Let’s take a look into the incredible benefits of gardening with your children and some addition tips and activities that will make partnering with them easy and fun.

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18 Tips to Help You Grow Incredible Cucumbers

Last updated: October 16, 2016 by Rootwell Products Inc.

18 Tips to Help You Grow Incredible Cucumbers

{Includes Cucumber Salsa Recipe}

There is nothing like slicing up a nice, crisp cucumber right out of your own backyard. Cucumbers are a favorite for many gardens for good reason. Their ease of growing and the amazing taste they produce make them a fun addition to any home garden. Cucumbers are great added to pasta dishes, salads, juiced, pickled or eaten just plain.

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Organic Basil: Everything You Need to Know

Last updated: May 26, 2015 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Organic Basil: Everything You Need to Know

Includes the Best Pesto Pasta Recipe Ever

Basil can arguably be one of the best herbs to grow in your home garden. The amazing earthy aroma and sweet taste make it a stable for many dishes. Basil can be used in tomato sauces, teas, on sandwiches, or to make incredible pesto to eat as a dip for your veggies or poured over noodles.

If you have used basil in the past, you might have bought a plant from the store. An organic basil plant can cost anywhere between $4-$6 for just one plant. While that might work if you just use a basil leaf here or there, but what if you are planning to make your own pesto? Just one plant is just not going to cut it. Pesto is so easy and tastes so much better homemade, who wouldn’t want to make their own?

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Everything You Need to Know to Grow Organic Strawberries

Last updated: April 24, 2018 by Rootwell Products Inc.

Organic strawberries

Imagine each morning walking out your door to pick bowls full of ripe, juicy, red strawberries. Having strawberries in your home garden can be such a fun and tasty addition. The ease of growing strawberries makes them a great choice even for the new gardener. Strawberries are great in salads, jams, pies, or eaten plain.

Here is everything you need to know to grow bountiful amounts of organic strawberries.

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