If you live in a cold temperate climate, or even somewhere that cold weather significantly slows the growth of plants during any part of the year, cold frames are a simple way you can boost your yields and increase the ...
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Garlic Scapes: Should You Cut Them … Or Leave Them?
One of the first things people notice about garlic is that it marches to its own tune. During autumn when the rest of the garden is being put to bed, garlic is ready for planting. And while other crops ...
Read More »The Crazy, Lazy Gardener’s ‘Fall Trick’ That Will Eliminate Spring Weeds
For many gardeners, growing a bounty of fresh fruit and vegetables for their family and friends to enjoy is a labor of love – but nevertheless still a labor. And when other activities and responsibilities start to mount up, it ...
Read More »The Tougher-Than-Nails Cold-Weather Vegetable That Can Survive SNOW
Kale is a tough, cold-hardy member of the cabbage family, but kale grown in cool, frosty weather is amazingly sweet. If you already harvested a crop of kale you planted during spring (or even if you didn’t!), you can plant ...
Read More »5 Ways To Turn Your Garden Into A Supercharged Ecosystem
Intuitively, we all know that diversity is important in ecosystems, and yet most gardeners chug along year after year using the same few plants in the garden, as if gardens themselves are not ecosystems and somehow fall outside of the ...
Read More »7 Garden Must-Do’s You Shouldn’t Put Off Until Spring (No. 5 Might Be Most Important)
After a full season of intense gardening and homesteading activities, many of us are ready to pull up the last of our vegetable plants and sit back on our heels as cooler weather moves in. Don’t do it. As tempting ...
Read More »The Easy Way To Grow Lemon Trees Indoors
Local lemons can be hard to come by unless you live in an area with a year-round warm climate like California or Florida. While cold climates may never have commercially available local citrus, it’s surprisingly easy to grow enough lemons ...
Read More »The 3-Ingredient Natural Herbicide That Will Kill ANYTHING
I have a certain detest for poison ivy. Years of attempting to “work it out” with this plant have only left me feeling itchy and ill at ease whenever I see a plant with three leaves. So imagine to ...
Read More »5 All-Natural (And Free!) Pest Control Methods For Your Garden
Kale with huge holes in the leaves. Squash plants missing large sections of stem. Flowers with their petals missing. Insect garden pests can do all these things and more to your precious plants, and by the time you notice, it ...
Read More »Landrace Gardening: The Forgotten (And Better Way) Your Ancestors Grew Vegetables
Farming food for the homestead is a labor-intensive and time-consuming process, and you can’t afford to get it wrong. The truth, though, is that every region has its own challenges to which those plants may not be perfectly adapted. The ...
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