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Blooming Haven
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items A guide to creating natural beauty, and edible farm to table bliss, showing the benefits of gardening for mental and physical well-being. Eat what you grow!
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Pots and Placement
Sustainable Soil
Plants and Seeds
February Seeds to Start
May Days
Pots and Placement
Save space with this vertical indoor or outdoor garden idea!
Mr. Stacky 5 Tier Stackable Planter - Vertical Garden
One of the easiest and cheapest solutions for potting soil gnats! I literally put these in my indoor pots and within an hour saw the gnats stuck on them. They are STICKY so make sure you don't accidentally touch them or brush your hair up against the...
Fruit-Fly Sticky-Traps
Sustainable Soil
Made of 100% natural coco fiber, this coco coir is a mixture of longer and shorter fibers which creates a soil alternative that has exceptional water holding capacity, high porosity, and drainage abilities!
Mother Earth Coco Bale, 100% Natural Coco Coir
This Miracle-Gro Succulent Potting Mix was created for those who love growing succulents. It contains the nutrients succulents need to thrive. It's fast-draining and features a blend of sphagnum peat moss, forest products and fertilizer. Great for he...
Miracle-Gro Succulent Potting Mix, 4 qt.
50 ready and easy to use seed starter pellets. These minimizes transplant shock and root damage. No additional soil required. Just add water, the pellet will expand, drop in your seed, wait for them to grow, and plant directly into their permanent ho...
50 Count Seed Starter Soil Plugs for Transplant
Plants and Seeds
All-in-One Sprouting System - This sprouting kit includes everything you need to get going. Enjoy nutritious sprouts all-year round and load up on beneficial vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Simply soak, rinse, drain, set in place, and watch the sprout...
Tribest GEO Sprouting Jar System with Stainless Steel Rack and Ceramic Base Plate – Clear
100% organic and non-GMO. Includes herb and veggie seeds varieties Cilantro (Coriander), Basil (Genovese), Arugula (Roquette), Lettuce (Green Leaf Black Seeded Simpson), Spinach (Bloomsdale), Onion (Evergreen Bunching), Tomato (Red Cherry), Carrot (S...
Back to the Roots 10pk Organic USA Beginner’s Garden Seeds
February Seeds to Start
Some great seeds to start in the month of Feb for Zones 9 and 10. Plant one, or plant them all. Just have fun with it and see what grows!
Garden visitors can’t resist the lure of these edible purple garden ornaments. Heirloom’s fragrant purple-pink flowers are followed by clusters of deep-purple pods filled with delectable green peas. Best used as a shelling pea, to be cooked or dried,...
Pea, Purple Podded
You’ll be mesmerized by the changing colors of this sweet snacking type pepper. Striped 4" fruits ripen green-and-white (50 days) to rich chocolate-red (70 days). Compact plants are perfect in pots on a sunny patio, deck or terrace.
Pepper, Sweet, Mocha Swirl
Flat-leaved variety used in salad dressings, poultry, soups and as an ingredient of pesto. Flavor is much more pronounced than that of the more familiar curled type. Certified Organic Seed.
Parsley, Italian Flat Leaved Organic
Fruits are 5-6" long with white and purple stripes. Heirloom eggplant with excellent flavor and very thin skin, does not require peeling. Harvest from very attractive plants in about 75-90 days from transplant. From renowned vegetable growing provinc...
Eggplant, Listada de Gandia
Meet the mightiest, meatiest eggplant ever. Imagine fresh, home-grown, vine-ripened meat: that’s ‘Meatball’. Fruit’s dense, moist, flavorful flesh captures the flavor and texture of meat as no other eggplant—or any vegetable—can. Roly-poly, jewel-ton...
Eggplant, Meatball Hybrid
This high-yielding vines produce a profusion of long, slender, mid-sized pods that are remarkably tasty. Highly-productive cross between snow peas and garden peas produces crunchy, fully edible, curved, stringless pods filled with sweetly flavorful s...
Pea, Sugar Prince
Even after more than 70 years, this is still extremely popular pepper. Large, pointed fruits measure 6-7" long and 1 1/2" across. The mild yellow peppers ultimately turn brilliant red. A favorite for pickling.
Pepper, Sweet, Sweet Banana
Take the beloved Cherry Bomb pepper, dialed down the heat and turned up the sweet. Cherry Stuffer produces bushels of 2" delectable, snackable, stuffable, grillable peppers.
Pepper, Sweet, Cherry Stuffer Hybrid
When you plant a packet, some will turn out gold or orange and others will be red, purple or ivory. Most start out green and are tasty as soon as they reach full size; a few weeks later, their full ripe color will show. These are all classic big bell...
Pepper, Sweet, Carnival Blend
Customer favorite! Perennial in Zones 3-10. Start early indoors or outdoors after danger of frost. We searched the world to find the best seed-Burpee fully guarantees that not a drop of synthetic chemicals was used to make these excellent seeds.
Chives, Dolores
May Days
Some of the easiest tomatoes you can grow! Great for beginners or to introduce small children into the wonderful world of gardning!
Tomato, Super Sweet 100 Hybrid
Sometimes I just want a popping pepper surprise! Just planted these seeds in the beginning of May and they're already starting to sprout!
Sweet and Spicy Peppers
These never make it into my kitchen. They're a pick and eat straight from the vine while I gather other things to use. Super sweet and crunchy and most importantly EASY to grow!
Super Sugar Snap Pea Seeds
I know radish isn't for everyone, but this is my May day list, and I love radish! These are the long slender radish so you can absolutely overcrowd them. They also grow EXTREMELY quick!
French Radish
Thai basil can literally replace any basil, and it gives your dishes (and drinks) a more robust basil experience! I love how this plant is also decorative with it's green and purple leaves.
Thai Basil
I LOVE this tree so much! The flavor is a mix of apricot and plum. Such a prolific fruit tree so make sure you have a jam recipe on hand for this one!
Loquat 'Japanese Plum' Trees
Delicious and so easy to grow! Once these are established, they grow for years and years!
Everbearing Mulberry Bushe
These have huge yields of fruit with virtually no maintenance, and because they are the Everbearing Strawberry Plant, they can produce from spring through summer! Make sure you bury those runners and you'll keep your strawberry plants FOREVER!
USDA Organic Everbearing Strawberries