While you are stewing inside with cabin fever, you are probably dreaming of spring and imagining getting your hands in the garden soil. There is no need to wait. You can find plenty of things to do in your garden ...
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1 Thing Everyone Is Missing In Home Defense
When someone buys a gun for home defense, they tend to fall into one of three categories. These categories are based on the amount of thought an individual puts into their planning. Although you may find yourself falling in between ...
Read More »5 Greenhouse Space-Saving Secrets
Last week, I wrote about three things I have learned in just a few years of owning a greenhouse. Our greenhouse is 20 feet long and 14 feet wide, and 9 feet tall in the center. This is the perfect ...
Read More »Planning For Spring: Seed Shopping
You’ve likely got most things taken care of in the garden and most of your garden tools put away for the winter. If you haven’t done so already, now is the time to begin thinking about what you want to ...
Read More »The Survival Garden: Plan Ahead
As a homesteader, you probably have a goal of growing most of your own food. However, the road to self-sufficiency doesn’t appear overnight. Perhaps you started with a small garden with a few tomato plants and a box of lettuce. ...
Read More »Six More Things Preppers Can Overlook
The first six things I wrote about brought so many new thoughts to my mind that I just had to sit down and write six more. While they may seem like basic common sense, it is easy to overlook one ...
Read More »Fall Planting, Planning, and Preparations
While many of us think only of spring as planting time, there is much gardening to be done throughout fall. Officially, fall begins with the autumnal equinox, but a much better description of fall comes from master gardener Paul James: ...
Read More »The Beauty Of Details
“Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.” Norman Vincent Peale When I was in junior high school, one of my closest friend’s fathers decided to surprise his wife with homemade fried chicken. His kids had ...
Read More »Gardening 101 – Back to Basics
Whether you’re just starting to think about planting a garden or a veteran of many seasons, it never hurts to return to the basics for a refresher. Gardening is possible just about anywhere there is a plot of ground that ...
Read More »Planning And Planting The Fall Garden
July and August are the glory days of the summer vegetable garden. Your tomato vines are probably waist-high and heavy with fruit. The green beans need daily picking, and your zucchini and summer squash are going like gangbusters. Then September ...
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