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Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves
Reduce Waste: How To Make The Most Of Your Autumn Leaves The end of the summer garden is always bittersweet for me. I miss my daily fresh cut lettuce but I also love the falling leaves and bright reds and oranges of autumn. Luckily, those fallen leaves are more than just pleasing to look at. […]
12-Plus Methods For Keeping Challenging Weeds and Pests Out of the Garden
12-PLUS METHODS FOR KEEPING CHALLENGING WEEDS AND PESTS OUT OF THE GARDEN With organic gardening, especially at the outset, comes a few new challenges for transitioning growers. Pesticides and other chemicals have, for several decades, become the go-to solution for all things in the garden, and now that many of us are clearing our heads […]
Real Food Does Not Come From Supermarkets: 6 Steps From Bare Ground to Homegrown Cauliflowers
REAL FOOD DOES NOT COME FROM SUPERMARKETS: 6 STEPS FROM BARE GROUND TO HOMEGROWN CAULIFLOWERS I imagine that when our grandchildren and great grandchildren read in history books about the supermarkets we relied upon for food, they’ll wonder what we were thinking. My goal is to get to where our family can live without the […]
Vegetable Consumption Increases When Children Learn To Garden
Vegetable Consumption Increases When Children Learn To Garden Most of us know by now that increasing our consumption of fruits and vegetables and limiting processed foods will lead us down a path of nutritional sustenance and health for years to come. Now studies are even suggesting that simply teaching a school-aged child about the importance of […]
Everything You Need to Know To Grow a Big Crop of Cucumbers
Everything You Need to Know To Grow a Big Crop of Cucumbers Nothing beats the summer heat like a fresh cucumber from the garden. These sun-loving vegetables are great for first-time gardeners and easy to grow. Pickling cucumbers, like Boston Picklers are prolific when they get going and are perfect for canning, but slicing cucumbers are best […]
10 Gardening Tips for Growing Market-Worthy Tomatoes
10 Gardening Tips for Growing Market-Worthy Tomatoes There is nothing like seeing clumps of repining super-sized tomatoes on the vine – That’s the sign of a happy, growing garden. But tomatoes can be problematic and prone to certain issues. Blossom end rot, nutritional deficiencies, blight, and invasive hornworms are just a few of the problems a […]
Dirt Cheap: The Best Frugal Gardening Ideas on the Internet
Dirt Cheap: The Best Frugal Gardening Ideas on the Internet With the price of healthful groceries going no place but up, lots of thrifty folks are starting a garden to save money on their bills this year. But what about the money to start a garden? It can be a very expensive undertaking, especially if […]
A Step-By-Step Guide for Starting Seeds Indoors
A Step-By-Step Guide for Starting Seeds Indoors While the weather outside is still on the chilly side, many are making use of their time indoors and get a headstart on the upcoming gardening season by starting seeds indoors. Doing so results in earlier and longer harvests. This economic gardening method doesn’t require special equipment – […]
How To Grow Vegetables Year-Round in Container Gardens
How To Grow Vegetables Year-Round in Container Gardens For many of us, our jobs dictate that we live near a city and, as a result, our yards are smaller and may not provide adequate space for a large garden. As well, those that are renting homes may also be limited to what they can do […]
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard?
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard? The Miami Herald reports that a local couple is going all the way to the state supreme court to fight a local ordinance banning front-yard vegetable gardens: Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll may grow fruit trees and flowers in the front yard […]
Winter is Coming
Winter is Coming Fall has finally arrived. It’s November, well past the time of year when we normally see freezing temperatures. This year was unusually warm, a phrase that is beginning to lose its meaning since most years now are usually warm. The leaves on the trees are finally turning color. The nights are going […]
Manure: An Overview of This Shi…ning Addition to the Garden
MANURE: AN OVERVIEW OF THIS SHI…NING ADDITION TO THE GARDEN Organic gardens really benefit from manure, and that is no mystery. However, it’s important to be aware of what kind of manure is at your disposal because they are not all equally desirable. Some manures, dare we say, are choice garden additions, while others take […]
A Primer on Creating Soil
A PRIMER ON CREATING SOIL Good agriculture depends on good soil. The problem over the past 10,000 years of our human attempt to live off the land (and especially during the last sixty years or so), is that crops take nutrients from the soil, and without proper husbandry, soil fertility will deplete. The “pseudo-solution” offered […]
How Do You Use Urine?
HOW DO YOU USE URINE? Composting toilets are a great thing. They take what has become a problem in modern systems—human excrement—and make it into something useful: rich compost. Despite simple and effective ways of making composting toilets, humanure does still bring about some controversy with those who are worried about pathogens. Confident composters won’t […]
The Best Perennial Vegetables
THE BEST PERENNIAL VEGETABLES One of the tasks that I most dislike about the farming life is preparing the raised beds each time I want to plant out a crop of tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, or onion. While I do enjoy eating a fresh tomato from my garden, the tedious, repetitive tasks of preparing the garden […]
