Olle Garden Knowledge Base

Often feels like it’s assumed that turkey will be sitting front and center as the main course on Thanksgiving. Sure, it’s traditional, and the homemade turkey stock that follows cannot be beat, but it’s just one of so many great holiday options.

The most natural way to grow healthy, sustainable gardens is companion planting. It's a common practice of old farmers, growing different crops together such as vegetables and fruit trees. Although their fields appeared to be unplanned and disorganized, look closer reveal some method to the madness.

Although growing asparagus requires patience, it's worth it when you can harvest it for decades.

Cinnamon can be used to help root cuttings, prevent fungus from killing small seedlings, and keep pests away from your garden.

CAN YOU DIG IT? In the fall cool weather can be taken advantaged. Dig in your yard and add a few plants. Build a few Raised Gardens and plant during this perfect time, many different items, including grass, trees, tulips and daffodils.

NO The bell pepper is the fruit of plants in the Grossum cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum.

Growing collard greens is a southern tradition. The greens are included in the traditional New Year’s meal in many areas of the South and are a great source of vitamins C and Beta Carotene, as well as fiber.

If you've been thinking about growing your own potatoes, now's the time. Get the best results from growing them in a raised bed garden. 

Organic waste and recycling food into compost provides a range of environmental benefits, like soil health improvement, recycling nutrients, gas emissions reduction in greenhouse and mitigating the impact of droughts.

Everything about slugs and snails in your garden isn't bad. In alot of garden myths, slugs and snails are weather detectors. There is no doubt that...

Green beans are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Succession plant fresh seeds every two to three weeks for the longest harvest season.

Even if you’re not a seasoned gardener, it’s easy to find success with this green. Just three or four plants can supply a family of four with a nice weekly harvest. You don't even need a backyard; kale grows great in Olle Gardens Metal Raised Garden Beds.