Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the garden, and
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Composting the Easy Way
Having an ample supply of good rich compost is the gardeners dream. It has many uses, and all of those uses will result
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Get a Head Start on Gardening with Cold Frames
Using a cold frame is a great way to get a head start on starting your garden or used as a way to
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Nutritious Food Plants You Can Harvest Quickly
Admit it, we want things to happen fast. We’re a society of fast food, fast internet, and instant gratification. But when it comes
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10 Healing superfoods you can easily grow in your garden
The key to a healthy diet is within your reach. You don’t need to go far to get it – since all you’ll
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7 Reasons Why You Should Have a Medicinal Garden
Growing medicinal plants are a great way to ensure garden sustainability and more notably, have access to natural medicine when you need it most.
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You Can Grow World’s Smallest Garden in Recycled Bottles
Got zero space? Got zero time? Got wine bottles strewn over the floor after your last drunken fiesta? Good news – you can
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A Beautifully Efficient DIY Dome Greenhouse
Geodesic dome greenhouses are beautiful, for sure, but they have many other advantages that make them a great option for backyard food growing.
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20 Medicinal Herbs That I Have in My Prepper Garden
“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates So, many of you may be asking why I want to go
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Stacking Functions: Increasing Yields & Decreasing Labor with Multi-Function Elements
You don’t have to buy into any woo-woo-ology or being “green” to reap the benefits of some of the concepts to come out
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The Secret to Building a Salad Keyhole Garden
A keyhole garden is a remarkably adaptable element that works in a range of garden styles. Visiting other people’s gardens is a lovely
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Hay and Straw Bale Gardening: Everything You Wanted to Know for the Best Bounty Ever
Two years ago, we moved into a house that had an abandoned garden; and to put it bluntly, the garden was in pretty
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25 Survival Seeds You Need For Your Garden
Living off the land sounds as inviting as Christmas dinner. But many have hardly had adequate experience being “farmers.” In fact, many have
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20 Early Spring Edibles: How And When To Grow Them
When you have been stuck indoors all winter long, even a few patches of brown grass and soil poking through on a sunny
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Basic Survival Food From Your Garden: Corn
Corn has a bad reputation today. Besides being genetically modified, corn today has been transformed into high-fructose corn syrup. It’s creeping into all
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10 Medicinal Plants that Should be in Every Garden
Playful as kids are, accidents happen. And the accident that befallen me at 7 years old was the feeling of the hot exhaust
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Garden Basics: Weeding 101
Weeding. I know, it seems mundane, but it’s a skill that could mean the difference between a bumper crop and a failed crop
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Survival Food – 10 You Should Be Growing Yourself
Editors Note: This post was generously contributed by The Prepper Project While I completely understand the value behind buying freeze dried survival food,
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Growing Food In Different Climate Zones
Starting a new fruit or vegetable garden can be an exciting time, and it can be difficult to know where exactly to begin.
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Seven Tips for a Smart and Healthy Victory Garden
During the difficult days of World War II, victory gardens became popular symbols of frugal living and self-reliance. As the nation’s resources became
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Tips for First-Time Gardeners
Have you ever thought about starting your own garden? Gardening is a rewarding activity. Many people find joy in growing their own food
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Backyard aquaponics: DIY system to farm fish with vegetables
It should be said that there is a difference between preparing for the collapse and live there after and just purchasing supplies as
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Garden Rebels: 10 Ways to Sow Revolution in Your Back Yard
Sometimes I think that the next Revolutionary War will take place in a vegetable garden. Instead of bullets, there will be seeds.
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Blend Your Own Seed-Starting Mix
April Johnson, landscape and greenhouse coordinator at the Rodale Institute near Kutztown, Pennsylvania, grows literally thousands of organic vegetable, flower, and herb transplants
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