Abby is a senior at the University of Connecticut studying Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Applied Mathematics. She spent the summer interning at Planter, writing blogs and updating content for the app. She especially loved researching beneficial critters in the garden.
She is very passionate about environmental conservation, and plans to use the skills she gained here at Planter to support her future career in this field. Beyond Abby’s education and internship, she loves bike riding, cooking and going to concerts.
Gardening for Newbies: The 9 Easiest Plants for Your Garden
Are you looking for some relatively easy plants to grow? Maybe you’re a beginner when it comes to gardening. Or maybe you just want to grow a low-effort garden due to your busy schedule. While a challenge in the garden can be a fun experiment it’s great to have some reliable plants that are easy to grow and useful in the kitchen. One thing to note is that all plants can be difficult in some way in the garden....
Apartment Friendly Gardening
Do you live in an apartment or a home without a yard? It’s easy to think of gardening as an activity of homeowners with plenty of yard space. But no matter where you are living, gardening is something you can dabble in. Your gardening options include growing plants that can survive and mature indoors or adding containers to your porch and creating a compact garden space. Alternatively, community gardens are perfect if you want to grow a wider array of plants....
Is This My Plant? A Guide to Identifying What's a Weed and What's a Seedling
Weeds. They’re pesky and hard to manage, but crucial to deal with to have a successful garden. We put in so much work weeding our gardens, so making sure that we are actually removing weeds seems like the obvious but important step. Have you ever wondered whether you’ve confused a newly planted seedling with a weed? Spotting whether the plant in your garden was the one you intentionally planted is an important tool for gardeners to have....
Which Part of the Plant are You Eating?
The fruits and vegetables you can eat come from unique parts of their plants. In your everyday life you eat everything from the roots to stems to leaves. Some angiosperms, or flowering plants, yield fruit. Though some of the things you may think of as “fruits” aren’t truly fruit as we expect. Conversely, some plant parts we consider “vegetables” are actually botanically fruits. In some circumstances, you eat parts of a plant that contain other parts that are actually inedible....
