Planting Tulips: The Complete Care Guide
If you live in North Texas and dream about growing tulips as part of your spring garden, now is the time to get planning! Fall is the time you’ll find tulip bulbs for sale in the garden center and planting…
If you live in North Texas and dream about growing tulips as part of your spring garden, now is the time to get planning! Fall is the time you’ll find tulip bulbs for sale in the garden center and planting…
Fall is the best time to plant fruit trees and shrubs. Whether it's one special tree or an entire home orchard, now's the time to invest in a sweet harvest. Each year, we select a wide range of fruit varieties…
The planting window for cool season crops has arrived! From now through October 15th, it’s time to sow seeds indoors and directly outdoors of lettuces, kale, spinach, and collards, as well as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and more. These…
Why do we at NHG stress the importance of certain planting times? What happens when you plant something way too early, or worse, way too late? Planting by the calendar is all-important if you are to have vegetable and herb…
We all have challenges when it comes to our gardening spaces. Here are a few common challenges we hear about from customers at the garden center and our tips on how to handle them! Small spaces Many of us in…
Each spring you plant tomato transplants that bring you a bountiful harvest come June. You might think once you’ve harvested those fresh tomatoes that you’ll be back to buying them at grocery store for the rest of the year. Not…
The warm days and cool nights of Spring does wonders for roses, irises and peonies, but we all know that the heat of summer is right around the corner. With a little planning today, you can reduce the summer stress…
Even if you don’t have a lot of space to garden, there is one category of plants for which most people can carve out some real estate: Herbs. Herbs are the perfect container plants, so you don’t have to have a…
Homegrown tomatoes: They’re a right of passage for any budding gardener. While they might be the most popular garden vegetable (tomatoes are technically a fruit), they are also one of the most challenging to grow here in Texas. Hot temperatures…
It’s the third week of February and we’re getting in our first round of spring Tomatoes! No, it's not too early. There is a reason we bring in our first crop at this time. The Right Timing for Tomato Planting…