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...
10 Low-Maintenance Plants You Should Add To Your Garden
We refer to ourselves as “Bon Vivant,” a French term used for those who love to eat well and in abundance. For this reason, we dispense the bulk of...
Why You Should Use Banana Peels In Your Garden
Gardeners are masters at reusing and recycling almost everything, even banana peels in garden, as part of their day-to-day gardening practices. We...
10 Plants You Should Never Grow In Your Yard
The first things a gardener typically considers when choosing what plants will go into their garden are the ornamental aspect, the amount of...
Dwarf Fruit Trees You Can Grow In A Tiny Space
The easiest way to grow fruit trees in small gardens is to plant dwarf fruit trees. They reach between 8-10 feet tall and 3 feet in width and need...
Stop Using THIS: It’s Ruining Your Compost
Technically speaking – any living organism is compostable. But logically speaking – not every living organism should be composted. That also goes...
Straw Bale Gardening Mistakes
Straw bale gardening is a wonderful way to grow a few plants in a tiny space and have a fully-compostable garden at your disposal. While easy, there...
Just Like Doxycycline: The Antibiotic That Grows In Your Backyard
Antibiotics such as doxycycline are important drugs designed to successfully treat infections caused by bacteria and certain parasites. Their...
Vertical Garden: 26 Plants To Grow Your Own
Vertical gardens are an incredible way to save space (or condense gardens for smaller areas) and they help save time watering. After all, if all of...
Lasagna Garden
Put simply, a lasagna garden is a layered garden that reminds many Americans of lasagna. You stack your layers until you have a deep enough natural...
Strange Gardening Tips And Tricks That Really Work
For most people, you shove a seed or a plant start in the ground (or a pot), and boom: you're gardening. On the other hand, some creative souls have...
Everything You Need To Know About Crop Rotation (And Why You Should Do It)
Crop rotation is a critical part of the gardening process. Some homesteaders assume it’s for farmers and so rarely engage in it. But the evidence...
How To Breed New Potatoes
Potatoes are a lovely plants to grow, and home grown potatoes taste better than shop spuds. If you grow your own you can grow and breed potatoes...
