Gardening

7 Unexpected Things You Can Turn Into Compost

So we know a few tips about reducing waste, since everyone wants to be more sustainable. In this modern world where pollution is a huge part of our...

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

Just imagine planting something one time and then keeping harvesting it every single year after that. And the best part is that you don’t need to...

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...