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Growing food in your garden is an excellent way to save money and live more frugally. You also don’t have to worry about unknown pesticides and other chemicals being in your food. However, since the growing season for vegetables doesn’t ...

Are you lucky enough to live in a temperate climate where it rarely freezes? If so, or if you’ve got a greenhouse, you can grow some vegetables uncommon to much of the country. These vegetables provide new textures and flavors, ...

Most of the time, I like my neighbors and they like me. We chat over the mailbox or sit on the back porch discussing politics, our kids, and our work. But come August, something mysterious happens. When my neighbors see ...

Tired of the same old carrots, potatoes, and turnips? Try growing some rarer root vegetables that will introduce new tastes into your diet and help preserve America’s horticultural legacy. Seldom-grown root vegetables include skirret, scorzonera, salsify, and parsnip. Skirret (Sium ...

Vegetable gardening is the most popular hobby in the United States. In addition to the pleasure gardening provides, many gardeners cite a desire for organic food as a motivation in vegetable gardening. Yet, plant diseases in the garden can thwart ...

Why let your vegetables grow out when you can grow them up? Vertical gardens are becoming increasingly popular as attractive and efficient ways of growing food, especially for urban dwellers where horizontal space is limited. These unique and versatile gardens ...

While it is certainly great to enjoy your garden’s bounty fresh every day, it can also be nice to enjoy a lot of those same vegetables when they are not in season. Preserving your garden’s bounty can help you to ...

Like people, plants just naturally get along better with a small circle of friends, but they don’t always get along with the entire garden. That’s why before you plant a garden of any kind, you should do some research to ...

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. ...

November 16, 2012 In this video, we dehydrate frozen mixed vegetables straight from the freezer. 5 pounds of mixed vegetables just fit in a single quart mason jar. The vegetables were put on the racks, still frozen, and dehydrated for ...