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...
DIY Worm Compost Tower
Nature has blessed humans with many things so that we can survive. Worm composting is a way to breakdown naturally everything that is...
Easy DIY Garden Pest Killer You Can Make At Home
Pests are a great enemy of plants, and as a homesteader, I have not little chance for them in my garden. I often apply pesticides to the garden and...
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...
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...
How To Sprout Seeds To Have Fruit Trees
Seeds play a major role in growing fruit trees for human and animal consumption. This has been so from time immemorial. The happiness you get from...
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...
DIY Tomato Cage
Gardening is a rewarding activity, but once you dive deeper, you'll realize it comes with its challenges. For example, creating a DIY tomato cage...
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...
How To Build The Cheapest Scarecrow
Making a scarecrow can be very interesting and it will definitely come in handy. This is a very easy and low-cost project, you can use materials you...
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 Medicinal Plants You Can Find On Your Homestead
Plants have been our allies in the culinary and medicinal realms for ages. We have relied on their bitters and astringency to tempt our taste buds...
What Happens If You Spread Coffee Grounds In Your Garden
Perhaps you’ve heard of using coffee grounds in your garden. There are many opinions about coffee grounds used in the garden, and most of them are...
Can You Plant a Grocery Store Cucumber?
There is nothing better than sinking your teeth into a crisp, fresh, tasting cucumber. They make awesome salads, pickles, drinks, and much more. You...
What Music You Should Play To Your Plants To Maximize Harvest
Plato once said that "Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." Similarly, music...
If You See These Bugs In Your Garden, Get Rid Of Them Immediately!
Ever met irritating little bugs that seem to be in love with your zucchini, pumpkin, or... squash plants? Yeah, that's right. Your squash plants....
How To Fix Clay Or Sandy Garden Soil
Owning a healthy and ever-growing garden needs a perfect soil type. And loamy soil is an excellent type of soil for all the garden needs. It...
Strange Ways to Grow Potatoes In a Tiny Space
Everyone loves potatoes, they are delicious and versatile and can be made into a variety of dishes including fries, mashed potatoes, boiled...
How to Grow Vegetables in Small Spaces
We all dream of big, luscious gardens with huge plots of land and the ability to till it until our arms are ready to fall off. Unfortunately, that...
Mosquito and Fly Repellent Plants You Need To Grow For Summer
Flies and mosquitos will eat away at your vegetable and fruit trees, and leave you with damaged crops. Additionally, if you enjoy spending time in...
Low Cost Raised Garden Beds
As concerns about interruptions in the supply chain due to the pandemic hit the news, Victory Gardens are once again becoming popular. This is great...
Dangerous Insects That Are Actually Good For Your Garden
Having beneficial insects is a great way to boost your garden and get the most from it. However, some of these insects are deemed dangerous to...














































