Search

latest articles

Soil Testing Chart

Crops & Gardening
|

Learn all you need to know to keep your soil healthy with these soil tests.

Grow an Evening Garden

Crops & Gardening
|

Carve out a blissful sanctuary for nights filled with peace and quiet by planting an evening garden.

7 Keys to Organic Gardening

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
|

A Kentucky farmer passes on his wisdom to other gardeners who want to grow organic.

Plan Your Garden Online

Crops & Gardening | Farm Management |
|

Beat the winter blues by using gardening websites and online catalogs to start your spring garden.

Garden Progress

Crops & Gardening
|

This January marks the fourth year that we have been building the garden on the cliff next to our home.

New Year = New Experiments

Crops & Gardening
|

Snow snow snow! Everything is covered in a good 8 inches here, and the temps have been awfully frosty.

Pruning Time

Crops & Gardening
|

It’s finally cold enough that all the fruit trees in the garden, including the apples, have dropped their leaves, so I pruned my deciduous fruit trees today.

Garden Resolutions for 2010

Crops & Gardening
|

Lots of stuff I plan to do doesn’t get done. This year, though, I swear I’m going to make it through the list.

Sunny Italy

Crops & Gardening
|

Lots of parts of Italy remained below freezing for two days this weekend as a cold wave came down from Russia.

Italian Landslides

Crops & Gardening
|

We had an unexpected visitor in the garden this week, in the form of a large rock that just appeared by itself on a small flat area near the northern edge.

Nana’s Garden Inspiration

Crops & Gardening
|

As the holiday season fast approaches, I can’t help but think of my Nana.

Red Hot Pokers

Crops & Gardening
|

Some of my favorite flowers, the Red Hot Pokers, are just starting to come into flower in our garden these days.

Get Hobby Farms content
delivered straight to your inbox!

Copyright © 2026 EG Media Investments LLC. All rights reserved.