Not even 100 years ago, every family had a vegetable garden. Children learned from their parents, and each home typically had an established garden. That has changed, but increasingly, people are returning to gardening and growing their own food. Gardens are both rewarding and fun. So how can you ...
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Growing Food – Carrots
Beautiful, tasty, crunchy, and healthy—these are just a few words that describe the humble carrot. Whether you enjoy them raw or cooked, sweet or spicy, juiced, fermented, pickled, or baked, carrots offer endless culinary possibilities. If you're an aspiring gardener or simply someone who loves to ...
Growing Food – Cabbage
We have been growing cabbage for many years, but it seemed that we seldom got great cabbage from seed. So last year I set a goal to find varieties that do really well and grow more cabbage. Cabbage is a staple food of ours, so growing our own just makes sense. So here I am, happy as can be with this ...
How to Make Simple Compost Tea (Extract)
We're currently in the middle of summer, marking the halfway point of the gardening season. To give our plants a much-needed boost, the most efficient and simplest method is to use compost tea. This type of tea is created by using high-quality, finished compost as a liquid fertilizer for plants. ...
How to Deal with Garden Weeds
Weeds are plants that grow where we do not want them to grow. Any plant can be a weed, in fact in our garden we have chive weeds, delphinium weeds as well as dandelion weeds. "It grows like a weed" is a saying to describe what is thriving. Weeds always seem to be there. How to deal with garden weeds ...
How To Water Your Vegetable Garden
Most watering in our vegetable garden has one simple goal: to establish young plants. So let's look into how to water your vegetable garden so that you do not need to water all season long. Of course, there are exceptions to this like container gardens and greenhouses that need to be watered as long ...
Planting Pickling Cucumbers in a Bottomless Pot
Today we are sharing with you the simplest way to grow cucumber which has 3 significant advantages to the traditional way—planting pickling cucumber seedlings in a bottomless pot. First, let's look into the advantages of this simple method to plant. Then we will share a step-by-step how to ...
Dry Spring Challenge in the Garden
Just when you think spring can't get any drier, 2023 arrives. It's dry, hot, and windy. As I write this, heavy smoke is covering the sun. For many of our readers, the primary concern is not the garden but wildfires. Planting seeds into soil that feels more like dust than soil is common here in ...
Growing and Using Sunchokes or Jerusalem Artichokes
Sunchokes, also known as Jerusalem Artichokes, have a mixed reputation among gardeners. Some claim that they will always feed you, while others would never grow them in a food production garden. After growing and using Sunchokes for several years now, it is time for an update. Let's take a closer ...
How to Deal with Multiple Seedlings in one Pot
Seedlings are great for short-season gardeners. They help us to extend the growing season upfront. In this blog article, we are looking into how to deal with multiple seedlings in one pot. With good seeds, we often get 100% germination. Since we plant about 3 seeds per pot, to make sure we get at ...
