growing vegetables
What Is Schisandra? Schisandra Benefits & Growing Tips
What is schisandra? Grow this medicinal berry to enjoy many schisandra benefits. Learn growing requirements, pruning, cultivars, and harvesting.
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Asparagus Planting & Growing
Get started with asparagus planting, a long-lived garden perennial that can last for over 20 years with proper care. Discover the basics of asparagus care, along with a quick and easy asparagus recipe.
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Uncommon Vegetables: Edible Garden Leaves
Utilize more of your garden by harvesting uncommon vegetables. Commonly overlooked unusual edible plants include garlic scapes, radish seed pods, and other edible vegetable leaves.
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Harvesting Leaf Lettuce & Salad Dressing Recipes
Preparing and harvesting leaf lettuce greens is an easy and healthy choice. Create delicious salads with these homemade salad dressing recipes.
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When to Add Perlite Soil to Container Gardens
Add to Favorites What in the world is perlite soil anyway? Is it organic? I do a lot of container gardening, especially with my herb plants. Since I try to …
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Tips for Growing Sweet Corn
When I was a kid, it seemed like everyone in our rural community had tips for growing sweet corn as everyone grew it. I can remember that we planted a field full of it and harvest time was rather busy.
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How a British Family Constructed Their Own Root Cellar
In Buckinghamshire, England, Ali Freeman and her family, farm an impressive eight acre smallholding with a menagerie of animals and abundant vegetable plots. I went to meet them last August and was very impressed by the root cellar, which they’d built themselves.
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Growing a Traditional Victory Garden
During WWI and WW2 the vast majority of people grew some of their own food. It was not only expected, it was patriotic and a symbol of helping to win the war.
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Beyond Straw Bale Gardens: The Six-Week Greenhouse
A new gardening trend gathered steam in 2013: grow vegetables out of an agricultural waste product, with a method that eases the back while building soil for future gardens. Straw bale gardening drew a lot of skepticism. But it works.
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Canning Sugar Snap Peas
Sugar snap peas are a quintessential part of a spring garden. Ideally, this vegetable is enjoyed fresh or slightly sautéed in order to enjoy the flavor.
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How to Add Calcium to Soil
Ensuring your soils have an adequate level of available calcium should be an essential part of your field fertilization practices for several reasons. Here’s why and how to add calcium to soil on your homestead.
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Homesteading After Retirement: Part 3
Is running a market garden business a good fit for retirement life? This installment of the Homesteading After Retirement series involves an area of homesteading that I have absolutely no experience in doing.
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Growing Potatoes in a Bag or a Bucket
Potatoes are almost foolproof. They’ll grow and produce as long as the soil is fertile, water is available, the sun shines, and the plant doesn’t freeze.
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A Guide to the Best Greenhouse Plants
After years of putting our gardens in the ground, we decided to build our own greenhouse and pick out the best greenhouse plants for extending our growing season.
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Simple Homesteading – How to Start Successfully
Add to Favorites Starting a new homestead can be an overwhelming experience. We start out full of hopes and vision. We look for a better quality of life through simple …
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