If there's one thing that aggravates me the most about gardening, it's weeds. Just when you think you've got on top of them, they reappear. Learning how to prevent weeds so you don't have to deal with ...
16 Clever DIY Plant Marker Ideas For Your Garden
Every year I think I can get away with not using plant markers, and I'm proven horribly wrong. Even so, I continue to have faith in my terrible memory when I'm starting seedlings and sowing seeds in ...
Why You Should Grow Baby Vegetables, and How to Do It
Last year we had so much rain in our area that for months, farmers in my area had a hard time growing full-sized produce to sell at local markets. Things were just taking too long to mature. So ...
How to Create an Exotic Edible Landscape in Your Greenhouse
If you are considering getting a greenhouse or trying to figure out how to make good use of the one you have, what about using it to create an exotic, edible landscape? Thinking of a greenhouse ...
Growing Shallots: Best Varieties, Planting Guide, Care, Problems, and Harvest
I learned about shallots when I got my first CSA basket years ago. I encountered a slew of vegetables that I had never heard of before, shallots included. In my household, shallots were often the name ...
The Essential Guide to Making Compost Tea (and 4 Recipes to Try)
Compost tea is a fabulous soil conditioner and plant fertilizer that you can create right at home. Not only is it inexpensive to make from your own ingredients, but you can tweak recipes to meet the ...
How To Improve Your Clay Soil the Easy Way
Clay soil can be frustrating. It doesn’t drain in the spring and cracks like the Grand Canyon in the summer. Red clay soil makes it difficult for many southern and northwest coast farmers to produce a ...
How to Start a Three-Sisters Garden: An Ancient and Proven Method
While there are many different types of companion plantings, the three-sisters planting method is one that has been used for centuries by the Iroquois (a Northeast Native American tribal group). ...
Shiitake Mushroom Uses and Recipes to Inspire You
There are plenty of ways to achieve greater self-sufficiency at home. Raising animals, growing a garden, planting an orchard, and learning how to process and preserve foods are all central to being ...