Red Lip Gardener

05/31/2026

Turn your front yard into an edible garden!

05/18/2026

Fill the whole with nutrients for

05/17/2026

Soill was too hot!

05/17/2026

We straight gardening today! Sunday .... fun day

05/17/2026

Sunday....Fun Day in the garden. Early bird gets the worm!

05/15/2026

A square foot garden is one of the best things you can do if you have limited space. You divide your bed into one-foot sections and plant based on the size of the crop. Carrots and radishes can go 16 per square foot. Lettuce gets 4. Tomatoes and peppers get a full square foot each. You stop wasting space, you stop overplanting, and you actually know what you have growing and where. No sprawling rows. No guessing. Just organized food production in a small footprint.

05/14/2026

Most people plant the same vegetables in the same spot every year and wonder why their soil gets tired and their plants struggle. Move your crops around. Tomatoes go where beans were. Beans go where greens were. Greens go where tomatoes were. Your soil will thank you and so will your harvest.

05/11/2026

I put together a free herb drying chart for 21 herbs and the best way to dry every single one of them.
Air drying, dehydrator, oven, and when to skip drying altogether and freeze instead. Because not every herb dries the same way and using the wrong method means you lose most of what you grew.

I keep perennial herbs growing year-round. That means at any given point, I have more fresh herbs coming in than I can use at one time. And early on, before I figured out what I was doing, I lost a lot of it. Watched good rosemary go woody and dry o....

05/03/2026

Tomatoes will flop, break, and rot on the ground if you do not give them something to hold onto. This is not optional.

Here are your three choices:
Caging is the lowest maintenance option. Set it and mostly forget it. Works well in containers and grow bags because you are not trying to drive a stake into limited soil depth.

Staking gives you more control over the plant's shape, but you have to stay on top of tying it up as it grows. Miss a few weeks and the vine goes where it wants.

Weaving is what you use when you have a whole row going and you want a clean, organized setup. More work upfront, bigger payoff if you are growing volume.

I use caging for my container tomatoes. Less fuss and the cage doubles as something to lean other plants against.

Which one do you use?

05/02/2026

If your tomato seedling looks like it gave up before it started, do not throw it away.

Leggy seedlings can actually grow into some of the strongest plants in your garden. The stem you bury becomes roots. Every inch underground is working for you.

Strip the lower leaves, dig a trench, lay the stem in at an angle, and cover it. That's it. No special products. No complicated setup.

I've done this in grow bags and it works the same way. The root system that comes out the other side is worth the extra five minutes it took to plant it right.

Save this for when your seedlings get away from you.