Everything you need to know about starting a garden and have it thrive afterwards.
Whether it’s container gardening, companion planting or just good ol’ advice on how to plant seeds, we’ve got you covered.
If you’re looking to join a CSA, or “Community Supported Agriculture”, you may be confused on exactly how to choose the perfect CSA. There are usually quite a few available and this can mean that you will need to pick one. If you’re confused, there are a few ways that you can help yourself choose […]
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We love growing our own food, but due to limited space, we can’t grow everything we want. That may be the case for a lot of people, too, so the next best thing is trying a CSA. Have you ever heard of a CSA? CSA stands for “community supported agriculture” and whether you know it
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When Spring comes, preparing the garden beds for planting, tilling the soil happens. This will loosen the dirt to allow the roots a place to grow. When you are tilling the garden beds, there is a lot of loose dirt. Cats love to scratch the dirt. They scratch at the litter when using the litter
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Today, my awesome friend is sharing her experience with mini hoop tunnels in her garden! Enjoy! Springtime is in the air! Some lucky people hardly get any snow (if any at all!) but for many gardeners this time of the year is spent wandering the garden waiting patiently for the dirt to show itself again.
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Do you want to keep birds and other animals out of your garden? Did you forget which row the carrots are? Here’s how to use dollar store toy pinwheels to solve those problems! Imagine it. Digging into the warm, moist soil in the Spring and carefully planting your seeds and seedlings. You water them, mulch
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We love gardening, and are fortunate enough to be able to raise about 75% of our own produce each year… That’s accounting for all the produce we freeze, can and dehydrate as well as eat fresh. We use a combination of containers, raised beds and “conventional” ground gardens to accomplish this. Is digging down into
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Growing a garden in containers makes it easy for small spaces. It’s actually one of the best small vegetable garden ideas. You can plant just about anything in a container, really. Of course, the larger plants may need bigger containers, but just about any garden can be grown in a container. All you need are
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Are you interested in learning how to fail at gardening? Chances are, probably not! However, learning from the mistakes of others – and of course, from your own mistakes – is a great way to be successful in the future. Take my situation, for example… We moved to our home just a mere 10 years
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Are you looking forward to having the best garden ever this year? You need to do some prepwork in order to get there. Luckily, getting ready for a garden isn’t hard at all. You just need to put a bit of thought into it and plan ahead BEFORE you get lost in those colorful seed
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Do you sprout wheat at home? I love making homemade bread, pizza crust, and more from freshly milled wheat berries. The flavor is just amazing! For many, however, wheat is hard to digest. The jury is still out on whether it has to do with the wheat itself being in everything, or if it’s something
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