by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Mar 24, 2020 | Happening on a Flower Farm with Lisa Mason Ziegler, Organic Gardening
I am having a bit of a hard time focusing on my work at hand. With so much swirling around on TV and devices, it’s hard. My goodness, it’s enough to make even the most optimistic person a sourpuss. That is until I go out and sink my hands into the soil or start...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jan 23, 2020 | Organic Gardening, Organic Gardening, Videos
When I started dabbling with using the silage tarp technique several years ago I didn’t understand how it could impact my gardening and farming future. It solves problems I’ve faced in the past and is an excellent alternative to tilling the soil—-especially if you...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Sep 21, 2019 | Organic Gardening
If you want weed-free seedbeds for next spring—you better hop to it now. A little work today will save much work come spring. Fall sown hardy annual seeds are some of the easiest and most rewards spring flowers to grow if you prevent the weeds! The Weed Seed...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Aug 17, 2019 | Lisa Live
Cover cropping is so beneficial and is for small and big gardens. The secret is to select the right one for the season and for your garden. View our cover crop seed and inoculant here. Claim your FREE guide to Getting Started with Cover Cropping here! Founder of The...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jun 12, 2019 | Happening on a Flower Farm with Lisa Mason Ziegler
We are off to a great season here. My flower and vegetable garden is really coming into its own and it looks like we will have a bumper fig harvest this year too. The zinnias and sunflowers are just so beautiful and so welcomed. One would think that after all these...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Feb 27, 2019 | Organic Gardening
Don’t miss the ‘How-to use the stand-up garden hoe’ video below. Is it just a dream to have a weed-free growing season? It’s not if you plan on preventing weeds! We use two planting methods on the farm and each has its own plan of weed prevention....
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Dec 26, 2018 | Organic Gardening
There is no more welcoming time of year in the garden then when all the Garden Gold starts piling up around here. What am I talking about? Bags of leaves of course. For the next couple of months we gather and put down leaves on the farm like crazy, you might say they...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Oct 10, 2018 | Fall/Winter Gardening
Fall gardening offers unexpected gifts. It is like a savings account or investment, do the work today and reap the bounty later. While spring and summer gardening have their own benefits–fall is invigorating for me. Temperatures have cooled off, leaves are...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Jun 28, 2015 | Organic Gardening
A great mid-summer addition to the garden is buckwheat. There is plenty of time left in the growing season to take advantage of its many benefits and it is easy to grow. Buckwheat is a cover crop you grow to benefit your garden and the creatures that live there. It...
by Lisa Mason Ziegler | Apr 28, 2015 | Organic Gardening
One of the most common questions I’m asked is how do I deal with weeds? My answer is simple: we do our best to prevent them and when we don’t prevent them we use a hoe. When using a real garden hoe (like our grandparents used) it is effortless to prevent weeds and to...
