How to Save Tomato Seeds: and grow food for free!
Food sovereignty and diversity starts, and ends, with being able to save your own seeds. By saving your own seeds, you are able to plant for free the following year, but also select specific breeds and qualities that work well…
The Ultimate Guide to Water Bath Canning
A cellar lined with canned jars of homemade, homegrown foods. The food security of our great-grandmothers that is making a comeback! Don’t let water bath canning scare you. This Ultimate Guide to Water Bath Canning will have you filling your…
9 Steps to Choosing The Best Vegetable Garden Location
When it comes to choosing your perfect garden location, knowing what you need and what is figureoutable makes a big difference.
How to Grow Potatoes
Potatoes are important to the self-sufficient gardener and the gourmet gardener. Easy to grow, highly nutritious and are a great way to stretch a meal. Kids of all ages love to grow potatoes.
How to Grow Guide: Peas
Since you cannot purchase shelling peas or edible pod peas that are freshly picked, this is one vegetable every home garden should have. They taste sweetest right after they have been picked (while you’re still in the garden!).
How to Grow Carrots
Carrots are a great vegetable to succession plant. They even work well for a winter harvest. When the weather gets cold in the first year of growth, carrots convert a lot of their starches to sugars, so the roots become…
Companion Gardening and Pests
Increased yields, better soil and plant health, pest deterrrants. Companion planting is an easy way to get a fruitful yield from your garden every year.
The Foolproof Way to Grow a Garden
I remember first trying to grow a garden. I grabbed about 30 different seeds and took over the dining room table. I had no idea what I was doing but I was determined to get the majority of our food…
How To Build a Garden Planter in 10 Minutes
Want an easy way to improve your garden in less than 10 minutes? This garden planter is the gateway for you to build just about anything!
Composting 101 For Beginners
Composting is a great gardening tool for the beginner gardener. Using household waste that would otherwise end up in a landfill, you can replenish the nutrients in your soil for an ever-growing, happy garden!
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