Whether you are enjoying it with peanut butter or ranch dip, celery is a healthy and tasty treat that people love to munch on. This year, why not try growing some celery yourself? Having fresh celery at your fingertips can be quite easy and affordable, you just need to know a few special tips andRead More
5 Tips for Growing Eggplant
Eggplants are wonderful for adding color and flavor to your diet. They can be prepared so many ways and offer nutrients that can’t be beat. If you are interested in growing eggplants this year, take a look below at some helpful tips to get you started. These 5 tips for growing eggplant will help youRead More
Tips for Growing Pepper Plants
I’m sure you have seen the prices of peppers in the store lately. They can be very expensive and most stores have a limited selection. You can save money by growing your own peppers. Then you can dice and freeze the extra peppers and enjoy them during the winter. Peppers may be sweet or soRead More
Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
Have you ever walked into the grocery store and eyed a lightly colored tomato that looked light orange, pink, yellow or tricolored? Those are heirloom tomatoes and they are sold in the produce section for $5.99 a pound and up! It is crazy to think how many people actually buy them, especially when youRead More
How to Get Started With Composting
Sadie is sharing tips for how to get started with composting. Composting allows you to turn your food waste into free compost that is nutrient-rich and can be used for many things! Most likely, you’re going to use it for gardening, so that is what this post will focus on. I personally love to useRead More
Gardening With Your Kids
There is something so rewarding and a bit magical about pulling fresh food straight from the ground, washing it off, and biting into the fruits of your labor. Neither adults or children are immune to the lure of digging in the dirt, growing something with your own two hands, or the final preparations that go into yourRead More
Grow Salad Greens You Will Want to Eat
It’s easy to say you need to eat your greens but if you aren’t particularly fond of them you probably aren’t eating that many. Maybe it’s just that you haven’t been introduced to kinds that actually taste good. For one thing, store bought lettuce is often old and tasteless. Green iceberg lettuce is a popularRead More
Plot Gardening for Beginners
Early spring is when people start thinking about what to grow in their gardens. Seeds are started, groomed for transplanting and then the magic happens. Size matters a lot in gardening. You don’t want to create a masterpiece that is impossible to take care off. For this reason people typically start small and expandRead More
How to Make a Straw Bale Garden
It seems like more and more people are giving straw bale gardening a try. What is straw bale gardening you ask? Well it is a unique way of gardening where your crops are planted directly into a straw or hay bale where they remain for the rest of the growing season! No garden rows, noRead More
How to Prep Soil for a Vegetable Garden
Prepping a garden for the growing season can be tricky when planting several different fruits and vegetables. You definitely want to make sure you meet all the plants nutritional need while keeping the soil at a nutritional density that is at appropriate vegetable growing levels. This is a guide will help you meet the nutritionalRead More
Vegetable Gardening – 10 Resources to Get Your Garden Growing
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can. It saves me so much money on our grocery bill. It also allows me complete control over how the vegetables are grown. My friend Victoria and I have come up with some of our favorite resources that we use to help us in our vegetableRead More
10 Raised Garden Bed Ideas for Easier Gardening
I am an avid raised bed gardener. Raised bed gardening makes it easier to work in the garden and control weeds and soil conditions. They are the ideal environment for using the Square Foot Gardening Method. My husband has now built me 10 4′ x 8′ raised garden beds. He created rabbit proof raised garden bedsRead More
Guide to Growing Gourmet Lettuces
Imagine if the next time you wanted a salad all you needed to do was walk outside your door and pick off a cup or two of fresh, live lettuce leafs. The thought of fresh salad gets even better if you just need to reach across your kitchen counter to retrieve some from your liveRead More
How to Make Rabbit Repellent
If you need a way to deter rabbits from eating your flowers, try this organic rabbit repellent recipe. It uses garlic and crushed red peppers to repel the rabbits naturally without damaging your plants. If you have had any contact with me in the last three years, you know that I struggle with rabbits. IRead More
How to Make a Mini-Greenhouse
I love starting my seedlings inside in the spring. I always start my coo-weather crops in late February even though the plants cannot be put outside until early May. I start my warm weather crops in late March, but they can’t be planted outside in my region until after Father’s Day. Since my seedlings willRead More
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