12 Wild Medicinal Plants You Should Harvest This Fall Our featured link today is a great little article about 12 plants that you can harvest this fall.. If you haven’t investigated the world of wild medicine you are missing out on a skill that could eventually, in the event of a disaster, save you and …
DIY Vertical Garden Planter We all know the value of having a garden. Having a small space, a bad back, poor knees, limited mobility, children, or pets doesn’t have to hamper your ability to have a garden. You just need to do it a bit differently! Vertical gardening is one option. In this post we …
Eating Lilacs Lilacs are one of my favorite blooms. I have several bushes in my yard. But I wondered… Are they edible? is this a plant that will benefit my family should we have to forage or eat only what we grow? I didn’t have an answer, so I went searching for blogs that would …
199 Plants with Toxic Properties Requiring Caution We know to avoid plants like poison oak and the gympie plant. Where even touching them can cause long term discomfort or in the case of the gympie plant intense immediate pain. However there are less dangerous more common plants that can have toxic properties that you should be …
Swedish Home Inside Greenhouse to Grow and Heat Year Round A couple in Sweden decided to take full advantage of their desire to save on energy bills and grow year round. Located in Stockholm where the winters are particularly long, the need for a greenhouse if you desire to grow the bulk of your own …
DIY Soil Test Testing your soil before gardening can help answer a multitude of questions that you may not have even realized you should be asking. For the new gardener… where should I place my garden for the best soil? What plants grow best in the soil I have? Do I need to fertilize before …
Affordable Tiny Home-In-A-Box I love this! Many of us have big ideas and plans and tiny little budgets. My mother used to say champagne dreams on a beer budget. This tiny home kit however, fits both our needs/dreams and budget. Better yet you can construct it yourself and claim bragging rights. It’s small enough to …
Bedding Down Survival Gardens for Winter How do you prepare your garden for the winter? Do you cover it ? Set up items for reuse? Or do you garden year round? This article discusses bedding down for the winter and the processes involved in doing that. See it linked below from The Prepper Journal. Survival …
Broccoli and Sprouts Seed Saving Broccoli is one of my favorites. It is also one of the vegetables I have had the most problems growing at home. 🙁 It does take a little more care, timing and good seeds to grow then do some more prolific veggies. So I went looking for advise on growing …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Freezing Cucumbers If your harvest of cucumbers is anything like ours, you will be swimming in cucumbers! It’s not an issue here as I am a firm believer that you simply can’t have too many pickles! So if you are tired of cucumber salads, had enough fresh, and impossibly …
