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If you’re wondering why certain plants struggle in your garden, why other people have better harvests, or why your plants aren’t fruiting at all then you need to do a soil test. Don’t worry, it’s easy! Learn how to properly test your soil so you can have the healthiest garden possible. How to Properly Test…
High Quality Seed Companies for the Organic Gardener You know you’re an obsessed gardener when…. **The holidays are barely over and you immediately start researching your future garden. 🙂 Yep, it’s time to start researching, choosing, and buying seeds for the gardens! Woohoo! I seriously love every season for gardening — spring’s energy, summer’s hard…
How to Recover from a Poor Gardening Season Remember my ‘Spring in Abundance‘ post? The one where I gushed about my beautiful garden? Well, things can sure change quickly. This has been a frustrating Summer Season for my poor garden. It’s one of those seasons where it seems like everything that can go wrong is going…
Learn how to use cover crops in the garden. Any time from Fall to early winter is the perfect time to cover your garden soil with cover crops. I’ll also explain some of the more popular types of cover crops, how they differ from each other, how to plant cover crops, and what you need…
DIY Garden Trellis (on a Budget!) Do you have a gardening budget? I try very hard to keep true to a tight gardening budget. I know that I am so in love with gardening that if I’m not careful, I could spend lots and lots of money on things for my garden. This year is…
When I was a kid, my family had a large garden full of vegetables. It was one of the kids’ chores to water the garden daily, and I still remember how my watering chore went: I got up from the couch, went outside, turned on the faucet, made sure the sprinkler went on, then…
Spring in Abundance **This is my first large garden at my first real homestead. I have been super busy getting my compost ready, making raised beds, and lovingly raising tons of plants from seed. So far, things in my garden are going great! I have decided that Spring is the happiest time of the year….
How to Grow Watermelon **Watermelons are surprisingly easy to grow as long as the plants have plenty of room to spread, good drainage, lots of sunlight, and a sufficiently long growing season. Gardeners in northern climates should choose early ripening varieties. (This is where I get my seeds. They have several varieties of watermelon…
Pondering Permaculture My husband and I have lived in our new home on 2.22 acres for almost a year now. It’s been an interesting, super busy year, since the land and home had many urgent issues to deal with, and it will take many more years before our homestead is the way we want it…
How to Check the Viability of Old Seeds I’ve been happily pouring through seed catalogs and online seed stores (my favorite) lately, getting ready to buy as many seeds as I can. I soon realized that I wanted lots and lots of plants, but that doesn’t really work with my gardening budget. Sometimes I wonder…