Plant in July & Still get a Harvest It’s July and my tomatoes are ripening and I have already eaten my first cucumbers and the summer squash is just about ready! I’m thinking harvest time is coming not about additional planting. But if like my garden, you find you have a few bare spots, why not fill them with late …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Growing Banana Trees At Home When I think banana I think tropics! I was surprised to learn that you can indeed grow these awesome survival plants at home. They do thrive best in warm humid locations. But can be grown at home with appropriate care or do nicely in …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Herbal Uses For Perilla Perilla is another of mother nature’s gifts to us. It appears to be an ordinary decorative landscaping plant but it contains within its leaves the healing properties for a number of chest. lung, and stomach ailments. It can even be helpful with food allergies however, as …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Storing Potatoes Long Term I know, I know, you already know how to store potatoes. Cool dark room and all. But there actually is more to it than that when you are talking a longer term! Things that I frankly had not thought of! An easy, nutritious, and very …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. MIY Echinacea Tincture I love Echinacea! It is my favorite herbal remedy. In the featured article from Reformation Acres talks about making your own tincture for the primary reason of boosting your immune system and helping you recover from colds quicker. However, I am of the opinion (from my …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Nutritional And Medicinal Value Of Garden Vegetables A wonderful FREE PDF that we all should print off or at least bookmarked. Why? You know it’s good for you and what you like so why bother? The chart shows you vegetable nutrition, the compilation of vitamins, minerals and the medicinal benefits of garden vegetables. It is …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. DIY Solar Powered Fountain/Herb Garden This is a really cute little project for everyone! It can go on a small patio, a deck, a balcony or as a part of a larger garden! A water feature that is solar powered and can be used as a planter as well! …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Gardening Planting Using Jeffersonian Principles The Monticello gardens are exquisitely beautiful in their simplicity and productivity. Jefferson‘s love of his Monticello property and the hours he spent working the soil there are well documented. A producing garden doesn’t have to be a rectangle plot with neat little rows it …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Forgotten Plants our Ancestors Used to Eat Out of the thousands of edible plants on the earth, humans at this time choose only to consume and cultivate 500 or them! The featured article talks only about 5 of those most common and now forgotten plants that humans have for the …
Some posts may contain affiliate links. Dirt Cheap Frugal Gardening Gardening is much more than throwing a handful of seeds into the dirt and watering it once and again! Our friends the Organic Prepper have complied an aggregation of ideas on each step of gardening from across the web bringing to us the most creative …
