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The No-Plan Meal Planning Method for Gardeners

July 25, 2020

The No-Plan Meal Planning Method is a great approach to meal planning in order to use what grows in the garden and is in season.

The no-plan meal planning method has been developed over years out of the necessity to combine planning meals with using what grows in our garden. After struggling with meal planning, I realized that common meal planning does not work for gardeners. And it does not have to. There is a better and ...

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What To Do if Plants Fail to Grow

July 16, 2020

If you have been gardening for a while, you know things do not always go well. Here we share practical tips on what to do if plants fail to grow.

If you have been gardening for a while, you know things do not always go well. Usually, we don't talk much about it, and that might give the impression that it does not happen to experienced gardeners. Well, it does, and here we share what to do if plants fail to grow. We have had a lot of ...

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Planting a Fall Garden in a Northern Climate

July 3, 2020

Planting a second crop for a fall garden in a northern climate and short growing season. We share our experience in when what and how.

Our growing season is short, just over 100 days. It seems that with most plants we have just one shot. However, to use succession planting for a fall garden has been a goal of ours for many years. We started experimenting with it pushing the boundaries for planting a second crop, aka a fall garden ...

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Car Radiator for Heating and Cooling a Greenhouse

June 26, 2020

Car Radiator for heating and cooling greenhouse

After using a car radiator for heating and cooling a greenhouse for many years now, we thought it is time for an update. To control the temperature in our Geodesic Dome greenhouse, we used a Water Tank for passive temperature regulation and also an old car radiator for active heat exchange. ...

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Turn a Yard Into a Garden

March 19, 2020

Turn a yard into a garden

Living in a town or city house, either owning or renting you might not consider that you are able to grow a big portion of your own food in a healthy, organic way. However, that is possible. We want to encourage everyone to turn a common yard into a bountiful edible garden. In this post, we ...

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7 Proven Tips on How To Feed a Family on a Tight Budget

March 13, 2020

7 Proven Tips on How To Feed a Family on a Tight Budget

We have been on a tight budget on and off for many years, for different reasons and in different countries (even Continents). These are the 7 proven tips on how to feed a family on a tight budget, no matter where you are. I am not giving you a grocery bill amount or a meal plan. I do not find them ...

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Lemon tree in the indoor garden on Video

February 28, 2020

Growing Lemon in cold climate

This blog article started as an indoor garden update on video. But since the Meyer lemon tree in the video got so much attention and raised questions, we have updated it to give more information about growing lemons. An indoor garden is a place where winter does not exist, and that's quite ...

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Annual Vegetable Varieties for a Short Growing Season

January 30, 2020

Annual Vegetable Varieties for a Short Growing Season

Annual vegetable varieties for a short growing season have to be quick maturing. Growing a productive garden takes time. Seeds need to be planted, germinate, established, the plants have to mature and produce fruit. In most parts of the world, there is plenty of time for this. The garden is planted ...

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Covering the GeoDome Greenhouse

January 17, 2020

Covering the GeoDome Greenhouse can be challenging. We explain how to cover a GeoDome with greenhouse plastic, polycarbonate panels, and shrink wrapping.

The covering of the geodome greenhouse makes all the difference in how much protection you will have. A single layer of greenhouse plastic poly keeps a greenhouse around 4 degrees warmer at night than the outside temperature. Adding another layer of plastic filled with air in between the two would ...

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Pressure Canning Dried Beans Recipe

January 9, 2020

Canned dried beans on a glass cooktop

Beans are a big part of a whole-food plant-based diet. The easiest way to have them available is by canning dried beans. Since we have a glass cooktop, we do all our canning on it. Here is how we pressure can dried beans on a glass cooktop. It works great for us, take what you like and leave what ...

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