Everyone has their favorite vegetables, and beets are certainly one of mine! With their bright colors and high nutrient value, I think beets are one of the best crops you could grow, plus they taste great canned and pickled too. In this guide, I’ll teach you how to grow beets from seed, sharing everything you…
Beekeeping for Beginners certainly applies to me! I’ve often thought about how much I love honey and wondered what it would be like to have a beehive and produce it myself. I’ve never followed through and gotten a hive and bees though. It seems totally intimidating. I feel like I don’t even know what questions…
How to Grow Carrots: A Guide to Planting, Growing, and Harvesting My dad told me years ago that I’d never get carrots to grow in my hard clay dirt. I figured it was worth a try. I get some great formations…and I also get enough to feed my family, thank-you-very-much. (big smile) If I can…
Guest Post from Kirstine LeMaster Growing watermelon, from planting to harvesting, plus recipes too! I thought it would be great to do an article about how to grow watermelon. I mean, what better patriotic fruit than a watermelon, right? If you did not plant any watermelon this year, then I hope this article will be…
I use drip system irrigation in part of my garden. Not the entire garden…. yet. I keep adding more and more each year though. For a climate like ours with very little rain, a drip irrigation system is perfect. I use a black drip line pipe. But I leave out the the fiddly little adaptors…
Sharon asks, “What can I do now to lessen the impact of squash bugs later? They are the one pest that I can almost always count on each year.” The first thing to know is that squash bugs spend their winter as adults in protected, sheltered areas near, in, and around previously infested garden locations….
Growing garlic should be on your to do list if you have any kind of a garden. Is there a more versatile plant specimen on the planet than garlic? First, it makes every recipe it’s in better. It has an incredible amount of health benefits ranging from boosting your immune system to its anti-inflammatory properties….
Why I decided not to brood my ducklings and chicks together. I don’t care to brood my ducks and chicks together for three reasons. The ducklings will grow much faster than the chicks. There will be a body size difference and I don’t want my chicks to get trampled. The food requirements are a little…
Learning how to grow garlic should be one of the first things you do when you are starting a vegetable garden. Super easy to grow, garlic is a staple in my kitchen. Planting garlic was a given. A great thing about garlic is that it is planted in the fall and is one of the…
I spent a lovely relaxing morning building a do it yourself cold frame. Spur of the moment idea and I had a blast! I know that is a little weird isn’t it? It all started because it has been cold lately, but today….. it is beautiful! So I figured I’d go putter around the garden….