Is There Medicine Growing in Your Backyard?
Are there medicines in your backyard? Absolutely, but to determine what they are, you first must understand the practice of herbalism. Herbalism is
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Garden
Home gardening: Growing ripe, juicy tomatoes
Fresh, tasty tomatoes are great in salads, sandwiches or salsa. But instead of buying tomatoes at the grocery store, save money by growing
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Prepper project: How to turn a garden shed into a greenhouse
A garden shed is perfect for storing your gardening tools and supplies, but as a prepper you can turn it into something even
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Planning Your All-season Garden
The food garden, you could say, is a gateway garden. For is there anyone who does not savor freshly pickedlettuce, or look forward
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Flowers And Vegetables For Containers
If you’re new to gardening, growing food and flowers in containers is a great place to begin. Some can be started from seed,
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Home gardening tips: How to grow flowers and vegetables in bucket planters
If space is an issue and you want to start a home garden, try container gardening — specifically, bucket planter gardening. With the
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Watering and garden soil: 10 Irrigation techniques to use in your home garden
Managing a homestead can be tiring, especially if you have a large garden. To make things easier for yourself when it’s time to
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10 Seeds You Need for the Survival Garden
Survival seeds are one of those long-term preparedness measures that every family should have. If the days come when a survival garden is needed, the family
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Grow Salad Greens and Herbs in Containers
Salad greens and herbs are among the easiest food plants to grow from seed in pots. In fact, it makes sense to have
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Cut-And-Come-Again Gardening Will Boost Your Production
Many vegetables can be grown, harvested, and will continue to grow for later harvests. This is called a cut-and-come-again garden, a technique used
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3 Sustainable Ways To Reduce Your Dependence on the Supply Chain
It’s no secret that the supply chain disruptions have created global impacts on us. Many of us are feeling the burn of soaring food
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Start Gardening Differently
Preparedness and self-sufficiency usually turns to food production at some point. Whether we’re old hats or just getting started, there are some set standards
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A Simple, Homemade Plant Propagation System That Works Fantastic
This page has a lot of photos so give them a chance to load if you have a slow connection. This is worth
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How to Build a Backyard Greenhouse from Scratch
Throughout this web site, and in my book Free Landscape Plants!, I teach you many ways to grow your own landscape plants without
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5 Nutritious, fast-growing vegetables that you need in your home garden
Not all vegetables take several months to mature. Even if you’re not an experienced gardener, there are plenty of vegetables that you can harvest
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Prepper Hacks – Jumpstart That Survival Garden
Spring Into Planting (Early & Anywhere) Hopefully we’ve all sited or started making notes of where we want to plant, expand, shore-up and
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This Week’s Harvest: Strawberries
Strawberry season is in full swing. Now is the time to stock up on those delicious vivid red berries! Some strawberry trivia: Strawberries
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Spring 2022 Press Release: Regenerative Gardening
Regenerative gardening focuses on biodiversity and working with nature to create a balanced habitat of interdependent plants and animals, from the fauna, fungi,
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How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold hearty and
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Lessons from History – Victory Garden Advice That Applies To Everything
Looking back at past history, recent and far removed, can help prepare us in all parts of life. In some cases, early conventional
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Container Gardening: How To Grow Food With Limited Space
Container gardening is ideal for those with little to no garden space. Even if you live in a condo or apartment and are
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How to Grow Horseradish and Make Your Own Spicy Condiment
Ground horseradish is one of those condiments that people either love or hate intensely. There seems to be no middle ground when it
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Tips for Growing Sweet Corn
Nothing says “Summer’s here!” quite like an ear of fresh, tender sweet corn dripping with butter. Sweet corn has the best flavor on
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Home gardening tips: A beginner’s guide to composting
Composting at home is good for your garden, the soil, your crops and the planet. It is a great way to repurpose food waste
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