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Start your native plant garden for free
Buying seedlings can be costly if you have a big yard - with $8-16 per pot (as for 2025), you can easily spend a couple of hundred dollars. Here are some tips to start a native plant garden for free...
How to preserve your extra produce
There’s nothing more satisfying than a thriving garden — until you realize you’ve got way more tomatoes, zucchinis, or herbs than you can eat. Instead of letting your hard-earned harvest go to...
Where to give away fresh produce
Do you have too many zucchini or tomatoes? Or simply just have a fruit tree producing hundreds of fruits? And your neighbors and friends just can't take them anymore? Food bank usually doesn't take...
How to save your garden in heat wave
Living in Salt Lake Valley means most of the summer days will be above 90°F. And when it's over 100°F and full sun, most of the vegetables or plants struggle. Here are some ways we found effective,...
How to garden without breaking a bank
With inflation, the prices for plants can be very not friendly. Sometimes I feel like I almost have a heart attack when I go to nurseries or big box stores. $6 for a small vegetable start?...
3 ways to improve hard clay soil
You likely have clay-ish soil if you live somewhere in Utah. We live in Salt Lake City and I can't even make a dent with me standing on a shovel at some spots in our yard! The first year I tried to...
Join our gardening sharing platform – Cultivate
Cultivate is a gardening community platform where everyone can share/trade seeds, plants, produce or preserve with the people in the neighborhood. It’s completely free to use.






