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How to create a new garden bed

How to Create a New Garden Bed

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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How to Make Simple Compost Tea

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. ...

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Starting a new no-till garden with tilling or how we converted a pasture into a garden. Building good soil with less work. 

Starting a new no-till garden with tilling

This blog article is about starting a new no-till garden with tilling. We are sharing how we converted a pasture into a garden.  We talked about methods to start an instant no-till garden, also how to convert the existing tilled garden into no-till. Today we are sharing yet another way to ...

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No-Till gardening methods to start a new garden

3 No-Till Gardening Methods

No-till or no-dig gardening methods are on the rise in popularity. The idea of starting an instant garden without the back-breaking work of digging sounds very appealing to an instant culture. To be honest with you, it took me a while to understand the no-till methods. Not because they are ...

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All about starting a garden

Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know to Begin

The article is all about starting a garden to help especially new gardeners to a good start. If you are a new gardener or know someone who wants to learn more about growing food, please feel free to share it with them. "Gardening 101: Everything You Need to Know to Begin" is a collection of blog ...

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Preparing the Garden for Winter

Preparing the garden for winter is important for the garden soil and the perennial plants. We are in Zone 3 meaning winter temperature can drop to -40 degrees. In our particular area, this does not happen very often, but it might happen after a warm spell, where most of the snow melts. Protecting ...

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No-Dig or Double-Dig

No-dig or double dig?

No-dig or double dig is a question that like most garden questions can not be answered with YES or NO - it always depends. If you follow us you know we are big advocates of the no-dig method, and we mostly refer to it as no-till. Overall it is better for the soil life and if in doubt of what to do, ...

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raised garden beds vs container gardens

Raised Garden Beds vs Container Gardens

Raised garden beds have gained popularity, especially by new gardeners. However, there seems to be confusion about raised garden beds vs container gardens. They often look the same, but they are fundamentally different. We wanted to explain it in this blog article.  A raised garden bed is ...

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Soil for seedlings, container gardening, and raised beds

Soil For Seedlings, Container Gardening, and Raised Beds

Good soil is essential for healthy plants. Soil for seedlings, container gardening, and raised beds is different than the dirt in your garden. Container gardening soil needs to be light, be able to retain moisture, and have enough nutrients to keep the plant growing.  Here we share two ...

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Growing an indoor edible garden in soil

Growing an indoor edible garden in soil

In this post, we talk about growing an indoor edible garden in soil. In our outdoor garden, growing in good organic soil is our very first choice. In an indoor garden, however, it is not our first choice. Why is that? Success and failure in growing great plants depend mostly on the ...

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