The weather is starting to warm up, and while you may be focusing all your efforts on preparing your vegetable gardens and animal pastures for spring, make sure you don’t overlook your flower beds. Everybody wants a touch of color on the homestead, and flower beds are also beneficial in that they attract pollinators and… [read more]
How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest Winter Squash
Colorful, unique, and easy to grow, winter squash is one of the most popular types of vegetables grown in gardens all over the world. A nutritious and delicious crop, winter squash has a long storage life, allowing you to keep it with minimal care for many months without having to worry about spoilage. Luckily, growing… [read more]
Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe – Two Ways
Mayonnaise is a simple and delicious condiment that adds flavor and comfort to most foods. It is highly versatile and works well as a spread on sandwiches, as the prime component of dips, as the binding ingredient in egg salad, chicken salad, or tuna salad, and as a tasteful baste on roasted meats. If you… [read more]
How to Prevent Raspberry Worms
Move over, aphids. Your garden has a new pest that you’ll need to watch out for (and worry about!). If you have fruit plants, like raspberries, blackberries, grapes, blueberries, cherries, peaches, or strawberries, you may have heard of the raspberry worm. These nasty pests aren’t picky – in addition to raspberries, they’ll also infest the… [read more]
How to Plant, Grow and Harvest Cucumbers
Nothing says summer like biting into a light, refreshing cucumber or devouring a handful of crunchy pickles at your summer barbecue. Although most people would consider cucumbers to be a vegetable, they are technically considered to be a fruit. This fruit is probably the second most popular ‘vegetable’ in the United States. It is found… [read more]
Wood Chips for Gardening – Everything You Need to Know
The first year on my homestead I struggled to keep up with yard work. Heavy winds often caused loose limbs and deadfall to litter my property. I’d spend hours cleaning up the brush every spring, piling it up and hauling it away to the brush pile at the landfill several miles away. Such a waste.… [read more]
13 Uses for Eggshells in the Garden
If you’ve got chickens, you’ve got egg shells. And if you’re anything like me, you eat a lot of eggs, so you end up with lots of egg shells. We eat a lot of fresh eggs for their excellent nutrition and protein. And after awhile, the egg shells can start to pile up. But don’t… [read more]
How to Plant, Grow, and Harvest Summer Squash
Summer squash is a mild-tasting, prolific type of squash that will inundate you with its impressive bounty all summer long. Most summer squashes are classified as cucurbito pepo, although not every cucurbito pepo is a real summer squash. Summer squash is best eaten while it is young and the skin is still tender, however, summer… [read more]
How to Grow Sweet Banana Peppers
Let’s be honest about banana peppers – you either love them, or you hate them. These tangy peppers are not a common garden staple for most homesteaders, yet they have a place on just about every dinner table. Hosting a myriad of health benefits, banana peppers can really spice up your diet and are incredibly… [read more]
How to Travel with Eggs
Picture this – it’s the holidays, and you’re headed home to visit your friends and family. What better gift to bring from your homestead than a dozen fresh eggs? Unfortunately, if you need to hop on a plane or travel across country, shipping or traveling with eggs doesn’t have to be bad. I have always… [read more]
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