Boise Backyard Gardens

Take advantage of this beautiful day and plant your garlic! 🧄 Plant it about 3-4” below the surface of the dirt and cover them up, that’s it! If you have leaves to put over the top as mulch, that’s great, but if not, that’s fine too.

Just an FYI, Idaho has a quarantine law for anything in the onion/garlic family to keep white rot out of our soil, so please only plant certified seed garlic/onion sets. 🙂

Working on my presentation for the Idaho Homestead Conference!

November 9 - come learn, converse and enjoy time with like-minded people in our community!

https://www.idahohomesteadconference.com

Be ready for the dry, cold weather with these lotion bars and bath salts!

Small batch, natural ingredients. All herbal infusions were done my me and used herbs that I grew or from another local source.

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Sadly, we will be getting three mornings of frost or near frost, so I pulled what I could.

I’m pretty happy with this year’s last harvest. I hit a major wall of exhaustion in late June and was lucky to get these guys in the ground but I’m so happy that I did!

Mostly peppers and basil! Yum!

Harvest season! One hand is to use now and the other is for next year! Calendula.

Making another batch! Anyone need a jar or two of elderberry syrup?

$12/16oz

I'm running a 25% off sale on all of my Elderberry Elixirs on Etsy!

https://www.etsy.com/shop/BoiseBackyardGardens?ref=dashboard-header&search_query=elixir

Stock up now to have on hand for holiday travel!

The elixirs are glycerine based, so they are shelf stable for up to 2 years and don't require refrigeration.

BoiseBackyardGardens - Etsy Shop Plant Starts, Garden Guides, and Apothecary Products. by BoiseBackyardGardens located in Boise, Idaho.

Friendly reminder if you have blueberry plants! Now is the time to add Acid to the soil around the base of the plants 🙂

I simply grab a handful and rough it into the topsoil. Be careful to not go more than an inch deep as the roots on blueberries are very shallow and will be close to the surface.

Any of these brands are great!

Soon to be released - lotion bars! Clean ingredients, no added fragrance.

I have really sensitive and dry skin, so I know the importance of using gentle ingredients and very low fragrance. I have been using these for about 3 months and the results have been great! The calendula bar that I made was also a wonderful after sun lotion while we were on our vacation :)

Details coming soon!

Just listed! Herbal Bath Salts! It's finally cooling down enough to enjoy a nice bath.

All herbs have been grown in our garden. Most salts are free of added fragrance and all are free of added color.

https://boisebackyardgardens.etsy.com

https://www.boisebackyardgardens.com/products/healing-herbal-blend-herbs-for-infused-oil

All the herbs that you need to make an easy first aid oil infusion!

Healing Herbal Blend - Herbs for Infused Oil Ingredients: Organic Calendula, Wildcrafted Plantain Leaf, Wildcrafted Yarrow, Organic Comfrey Leaf, Naturally grown Lavender. Combine these herbs with your favorite carrier oil to create the base for a soothing, healing salve or just use the infused oil by itself! Olive, Sunflower or Grapeseed oils...

Perfect to add to your emergency kit or medicine cabinet!

DIY Dried Elderberry Syrup Kit w/2 Brew Bags As easy as making a cup of tea! No strainer needed! Includes 2 brew bags. Each bag will make 12-14oz of finished syrup. Just add honey and water. Make both bags now or keep one for later. Perfect to have on hand or to add to your emergency kit. Ingredients: Dried organic/wildcrafted elderberries, ro...

Live on Etsy :)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1798607883/diy-dried-elderberry-syrup-kit-w2-brew

I think these will be a staple in my garden from now on…

Mexican Sunflowers

I still have strawberries available and our weather is perfect for transplanting!

I also have some thornless blackberry starts available!

Contact me for details!

I excited to announce that I’ll be speaking at the first annual Idaho Homestead Conference! November 9. Get your tickets today!

SPEAKER ANNOUNCMENT

We are thrilled to have Kathleen Porter form speaking at the conference about Fruit Tree Guilds. If you don't know what a fruit tree guild is, it's a permaculture technique for protecting against diseases and increasing yields in your garden.

Kathleen is the owner of Boise Backyard Gardens where she sells amazing organic and heirloom plant starts every spring. On her blog, youtube and instagram she shares seed saving tips, gardening tips and her beautiful garden products. Kathleen also does garden consulting and coaching, garden/plant sitting, and you can also hire her as your personal gardener!

We cannot wait for her to share her wisdom on November 9th!

Introducing elderberry syrup kits with brew bags! Making your own syrup is as easy as brewing a cup of tea!

Includes 2 brew bags for a total of 24-28oz finished syrup. You can make both or save one for later. Instructions included.

Just add water and honey.

$20

Message me to order.

These will be on my Etsy store and website soon!

Not all apples have white inside! Our Redlove apple produced a few little, but SO tasty apples this year!

I love these Mexican sunflowers! So bright and cheery on this overcast day!

I still have some jars of elderberry syrup available!

$12/16oz jar

The progression of Eversweet everbearing strawberries! Planted bareroot in late May, grew all summer, and now they are setting fruit! Once established, everbearing strawberries give you two crops - one in June and then another in mid-August.

I still have some plants that are available to get in the ground now!

Message me to order

I have the first batch of elderberry syrup made with local, fresh elderberries and fresh, just harvested last week honey out of Eagle!

$12/16 oz jar