What Happens If You Sprinkle Cinnamon In Your Garden
Cinnamon may be one of those things that you associate only with a warm oatmeal breakfast, or perhaps a cinnamon bun in the mornings (or any time of...
12 Plants You Should Grow Together
The prettiest gardens are the one that are most diverse. Usually a riot of colors with little gems hidden between the foliage – be it a culinary...
The Super Plant You Should Grow In Your Backyard
Most of us look for natural, organic and DIY remedies when it comes to looking after the health of our garden. Pest control using kitchen...
This Is Why You Should Grow Living Mulch In Your Garden
If you ask homesteaders what they least like about gardening, they would most likely say weeding, weeding, and more weeding. Yes, that’s right! So,...
I Used Beer In My Gardening Routine
Beer has a lot more uses than just as a refresher during a long gardening session – I have recently been using it in my garden as well! Alongside...
What To Do In Your Garden Right Now
When wintertime hits and the warm weather disappears, it is so easy to completely forget that your garden exists. With the bitter winds and maybe...
How To Prepare Your Spring Garden Starting This Winter
Oh, the weather outside's still frightful. But planning a garden is so delightful. And so long as every seed catalog website is having huge sales-...
Cold-Weather Crops Care
Plummeting temperatures and shorter days are definitely reasons to be spending more time indoors, and the garden gets a back seat as far as daily...
Do This By March
If you’re anything like our household, things get pretty quiet on our property in the months of December and January. During this time, we focus on...
Veggies You Only Plant Once And Harvest Forever
While food gardeners typically focus on annual vegetables such as lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes, most perennial vegetables provide a yearly crop...
The Best Fruit Trees to Grow in Five Gallon Buckets
Growing your own fruit trees can be a fun and rewarding experience with or without an extensive farming space. Additionally, trees are a great way...
13 Homemade Fertilizers For Your Plants
Mature compost and bark chips are always going to be your best choice as a fertilizer, since these provide a broad range of nutrients as well as...
Stop Doing This To Your Soil Right Now
Gardening doesn't start with the planting of seeds. Prepping the soil and preserving its fertility are two of the most essential things to consider...
11 Ingenious Uses For Eggshells In Your Garden
Eggs are some of the most nutritious food on the planet and a good source of proteins; not to mention that they are loaded with minerals and...
Ingenious Uses For Tomato Leaves You Never Thought Of
Every summer, we gardeners find pride in the abundance of juicy, sweet, and tangy fruit our tomato plants give. Harvest after harvest, we indulge in...
Weed Tea – Turning Unwanted Plants Into Fertilizer
There are some weeds that are more troublesome than others. Thistles and wild oats, for example, die off and break down easily in the compost, but...
DIY Compost Tea
Have you ever thought of wanting to give that extra nutrition to your vegetable patch fruit trees or salad garden? But was reluctant to add anything...
10 Things To Plant In The Fall To Harvest In The Dead Of Winter
Winter is something that we have to face. It is a time when we find everything capped with snow and wait for spring to come along so we can get back...
Plant This Vegetable Once and Harvest it For 30+ Years
One of a few plants is a perennial so aggressive that you'll never believe that you haven't already had a garden plot overrun with this wonderful...
How To Harvest Seeds From Plants You Are Already Growing
It’s quite easy to purchase vegetable and flower seeds each year from the local gardening center, nursery, or grocery store. You may not have...
Vinegar+eggshells =?
There are a thousand and one old remedies for plants that look sick, are droopy, or simply aren't doing their very best. Why is that? Because until...
Gardening Mistakes Most Beginners Make
If you are reading this article, then like me, you love to be self-sufficient growing vegetables for your consumption. We are eating poison mostly...
Chicken Friendly Plants To Have In Your Homestead
We love our chickens. They give us hours of endless entertainment. And, they give us an abundance of fresh and nutrient-dense eggs, of course! But...
Amish Medicinal Garden
The Amish belong to a religious community and the life they live is mostly farming and being self-sufficient in many ways. Gardening is therefore...
10 Tomato Growing Tips For Beginners
For those of you growing tomatoes for the first time, it's likely that you've seen a few interesting little problems. Maybe you had tons of flowers...
How To Use Toothpaste For Your Garden
Perhaps the idea of using toothpaste in the garden seems a little strange to you. Trust me, at one point, it was odd for us, too. Nowadays, we use...
Stop Pulling Out This Plant, Do This Instead
It might surprise you to learn just how many valuable plants are growing in the wild just waiting to be found by a savvy forager. In fact, some of...
Gardening Mistakes That Might Get You Killed
Gardening is a wonderful past-time enjoyed by millions around the world. We feed ourselves with it, work long hours on our hands and knees to...
10 Vegetables That Are Too Easy To Grow Inside
Homesteading is all about being self-sufficient. One of the first things many homesteaders want to do is start producing their own food. Many people...
Raised Bed VS In-Ground Gardens
The planting season is creeping up in the southern part of the country and many of us are starting plants indoors as we speak. After all, you'll see...
Straw Bale Gardening
The dream of a simple, contained garden that produces bountiful vegetables drove me to container gardening. When I found insects and birds still...
10 Vegetables To Plant In Fall For Winter Harvest
Growing vegetables does not have to stop in the summer. You can easily grow various vegetables throughout the fall and winter months. By knowing...
