How to grow potatoes in bags
Planting potatoes in bags is the perfect way to grow spuds in small gardens, and on patios and balconies. Potatoes grown this way
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4 Sustainable Practices That Will Make Big Changes!
Whether we are climate change activists or skeptics, we can all agree that we should all be doing our part to leave our
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Top 10 crops for pots
Growing your favourite crops in pots can turn even the smallest of spaces into a home allotment. Container gardening offers a world of
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How to Build a Simple Hoop House
The easiest way to protect your plants for the winter is to put them in a row, say 6 or 7 pots wide.
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The 10 best egg-laying chickens for a prepper’s homestead
Keeping egg-laying chickens offers several benefits. They supply fresh eggs daily, eat insect pests, and make for a steady source of income by selling
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Tree Pruning Tips
There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the
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6 Very Beneficial Insects: To Know Them Is To Love Them!
Speaking strictly from a gardener’s perspective …There are good bugs and there are bad bugs. And the more you have of the former,
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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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