Category: From the Garden

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Lil Urban Farm reacts to people telling her to leave her homegrown food for the bugs.

POV: How It Feels As A Gardener Being Told to Leave Your Food for the Bugs

June 25, 2025

What it looks like when cabbage worms eat your cabbages.

Why We Cover Cabbages in the Garden

June 24, 2025

Lil Urban Farm shares how she moved from a stacking worm bin system to a SubPod for vermicomposting.

Worm Bin Update for Vermicompost

June 22, 2025

Lil Urban Farm shows what bagworms are and why they are destructive to local trees.

Why I Was Removing Bag Worms

June 15, 2025

Lil Urban Farm makes glass garden mushrooms from thrift store items and solar lights

Glass Garden Mushrooms That Light Up at Night

June 14, 2025

Two signs that your garlic is almost ready to harvest.

Two Signs Garlic is Almost Ready

June 8, 2025

Lil Urban Farm shows how to pull the garlic scapes from the garden.

Let’s Pull Garlic Scapes

June 6, 2025

Lil Urban Farm Explains What Yellowing Garlic Leaves Means

Got Yellow Garlic Leaves?

June 6, 2025

Lil Urban Farm Makes Cabbage Moth Decoys and Add Shade Netting to Gardens to Protect Cabbage

How to Make Decoy Cabbage White Butterflies… But Do They Work?

June 5, 2025

Picking blueberries at the Lil Urban Farm

My Blueberry Plants are Finally Healthy

June 4, 2025

Lil Urban Farm uses a Compost Bucket Sifter to Sift Compost

Sifting Compost From My Compost System

June 2, 2025

Lil Urban Farm's Simple Guide to Planting Tomato Seedlings for Healthy Plants and Abundant Harvests

How to plant tomato seedlings in 7 simple steps

June 1, 2025

Lil Urban Farm uses and recommends Espoma Tomato-tone Organic Fertilizers for Growing Tomatoes in the Garden

Understanding Fertilizer Numbers

May 31, 2025

Lil Urban Farm Finds and Releases a Cecropia Moth

The cocoon hatched! It’s a Cecropia moth—largest moth in America!

May 28, 2025

Lil Urban Farm Displays a pea shoot, which you can eat from the pea vines in your garden as a tasty treat.

Harvesting Pea Shoots – Yes, You Can!

May 27, 2025

Lil Urban Farm offers some Dollar Store hacks for preventing cabbage worm damage to cabbage and brassica plants.

Low-Budget Dollar Store Hacks to Protect Cabbages

May 24, 2025

White Cabbage Butterfly Identification

Two Types of Cabbage Worm You Might Encounter

May 23, 2025

Lil Urban Farm created hanging vertical window boxes on her cattle panel trellises.

Hanging Vertical Window Box Gardens on Cattle-Panel Trellis Arches

May 19, 2025

If you find holes in your cabbage leaves, it may be this cabbage worm causing the damage.

Holes in Your Cabbage?

May 18, 2025

Lil Urban Farm shows yellowing tomato seedling leaves against a backdrop of healthy green seedlings after giving them fish emulsion.

Got yellow tomato seedlings?

May 17, 2025