Watering your garden doesn’t need to be back breaking or a water-hogging procedure. Here are 10 creative ways to save water and irrigate the garden.
Category: Vegetable Gardening
Use Your Kitchen Scraps to Re-Grow Valuable Foods | New Book by Katie Elzer-Peters
A lifestyle guide to reducing waste and re-growing kitchen scraps into a food source you can control and trust. This post contains affiliate links. For years I’ve harvested and used the seeds from my store-bought or garden-harvested cucumbers, peppers and…
Keep Warm by Thinking of Your Spring Garden | 3 New Books from Quarto Knows
Though the Siberian Vortex is wreaking havoc on the world outside our front doors we can still warm the cockles of out heart with thoughts of the future. Quarto Press has recently released three gardening related books which can bring…
The 2018 Garden Guide: Advice and Inspiration for the Modern Gardener
The Old Farmer’s Almanac’s all-new gardening annual features endless edibles, plants with pizzazz, front-yard foodscapes, guidance on planning a path, and more! [dropshadowbox align=”none” effect=”lifted-both” width=”auto” height=”” background_color=”#ffffff” border_width=”1″ border_color=”#1db130″ ]If you are a gardener you are probably familiar with…
Companion Planting: Fight Garden Pests and Increase Your Yields The Natural Way
It was warm outside yesterday. Almost 60 Fahrenheit and it makes me itch to get into the garden. When my girls were very small I turned my attention almost solely to vegetable gardening and left the flowers to a few leftover…
Straw Bale Solutions for Home, Garden and Community || Book Release
With less than a month left before Spring officially begins it’s time to start thinking about creative ways to improve or begin your garden. The phenomenon that is Straw Bale Gardening continues with the March 20 publication of Straw Bale Solutions:…
Rhubarb: The Unsung Hero of the Spring Garden |14 Recipes|
Many years ago my father-in-law was perplexed and then soon elated when he discovered a hearty, leafy green growing in his garden. He didn’t remember planting anything there, but soon realized that this large plant was one of his favorite…
Preparing Vegetable Garden Beds for Spring
I wish that were my garden. . . The end of April is here and I’ve not so much as raked the dirt in my one new garden bed. There is a pile of pre-cut landscape timbers waiting to be…
Learn What Vegetables Are In Season
Even though modern technology has made all types of food available year round in developed nations there are a few flaws with this model. First, it is more expensive to grow in artificial conditions or truck in out-of-season crops. Second,…
Buy, Share, Keep and Toss Your Seeds
I learned the hard way that even with proper storage commercially produced seeds lose their viability with time. In 2003/2004 I bought a boatload of seeds and have been trying ever since to get them all used up. Well,…
