It’s here! It’s spring! It’s time to start breaking out the seeds! If you’re like me, you probably spent at least some time this winter browsing through seed catalogs, creating wish lists, and making scale drawings of your garden ...
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4 Fruit-Bearing Plants You Can Grow In A Teeny-Tiny Yard
I first became interested in homesteading when my husband and I purchased a house on a small suburban lot. The yard was filled with typical city landscaping — a boxwood hedge, a couple of potentillas, a lilac, some overgrown ...
Read More »DIY Seed Tape: The Fast, Easy Project That Saves Time And Money
I don’t know who invented seed tape, but that person deserves a gold star. If you’re not familiar with it, seed tape is tissue-thin biodegradable paper, usually about an inch wide, that has seeds embedded in it. There are several ...
Read More »6 Reasons Raised Beds Beat Traditional Gardening Nearly Every Time
As winter gives its last hurrah, my thoughts are turning toward the promise of spring. Maybe you’re like me, and you love the idea of having a bountiful garden, but the idea of dragging soil additives to the backyard, dealing ...
Read More »10 Strange (And Common) Vegetables Your Ancestors Planted
No matter how small a person’s yard was during the 1700s, there always was a need to plant at least some vegetables to help feed the family. Grocery stores were virtually unheard of, and seedlings or even packaged seed were ...
Read More »5 Dumb Seed-Starting Mistakes That Nearly Everyone Makes
I’ve been gardening since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I grew up on a farm and we kids were expected to help in my mom’s large vegetable garden. Many of the gardening maxims that I still adhere to were ...
Read More »3 Space-Saving Ways To Grow Vegetables Indoors
Sure, the idea of gardening indoors during the winter is appealing, but how practical is it, really? Even putting aside things like calculating the wattage of grow lights and researching the best seed varieties for indoor gardening, how do you ...
Read More »Grow Lights Explained: Here’s What You’re Doing That’s Wrong
One of the most important considerations for indoor gardening is light. While some vegetables will chug along with a bare minimum of six hours of light daily, they will flourish with 12-16 hours daily. Clearly, grow lights are a must, ...
Read More »5 Overlooked Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Indoor Garden
Growing your own vegetables indoors allows you to have fresh ingredients any time of the year, regardless of where you live. Still, many indoor gardeners start out with a lot of ambition but often give up when their plants ...
Read More »The Space-Saving Indoor Garden You Can Easily Build At Home
Living walls are popping up more frequently in home design. These “walls” (which may be an entire wall or just a picture-frame type installation) are often planted with succulents. They are aesthetically stunning and bring a range of advantages into ...
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