When you decide to start gardening, it can be overwhelming. Where does one start? How do you do it? We have many posts that can help you with each question, inspire, and help you learn. Wether you have a single pot on a deck, an urban backyard, or you are living rural with many growing areas.
Know the average temperatures in your local area. They have changed in some places in recent years.
Make Your Own Seed Starting Mix
It’s far better and more affordable than buying tiny bags of seed starting mix.
Giving your future crops a hand up.
It’s the easy way to have fresh veggies and fruit on a patio or deck.
You can get a garden on the weekend.
Growing To Eat Versus Growing For Hobby
There is a real difference in how you will go at it, and how much space you need.
There are so many options it can overwhelm you.
This is one of the questions we get the most often asked. How much does a person need to plant, per person, based on whether or not you are eating for the summer or preserving for winter as well?
Plant once, eat every year. Grow fruit and berries (and some vegetables) that come back yearly.
Using Reclaimed Logs To Build Beds
We have used this method a couple of times.
Potatoes are one of the few crops that, even if they fail, you can use the failures to restart the growth cycle.
It’s a simple and effective method.
Herbs are great for pollination, medicinal, and culinary.
A great method for pepper plants.
It’s the crop that flavors so much.
In mid-summer, it is time to start planting fall crops.
How do you have next year’s seeds for free?
How to create an easy paper envelope. Great for children to do.
If you want to extend your garden season, plan for it beforehand.
Build a garden for your children.
How to protect plants when it has a shorter season than a mile away does.
How to use sileage tarps to create fields ready to grow in.
~Sarah