Category: In Your Garden
From Home to Homestead – Growing your own Urban Farm
A homestead in the city? I can almost see Groucho.
Maybe so, but the urban homestead is quite real, if not yet popular.
So, what is a homestead? We all know what a home is – a place where you live…
Support Your Local Pollinators – and they will support you!
Pollinators range from butterflies, bees, beetles, small mammals, birds and bats that are responsible for facilitating 90% of the pollination of our world’s flowering plants. They may feed off poll…
Purging Pipes: The Who What When Where Why and How
I hate to say it, but frost is almost here, and freezing temperatures are next. Winter, so they say, is coming. Don’t worry, though. Spring is only five months away. Five…months…
Here’s the thing a…
Goodnight Gardens – Feed the Soil that Feeds You
Autumn is a bittersweet time of year. The days are getting noticeably shorter yet garden-weary plant-lovers can now look forward to a winter rest. But before that can happen there is much to be don…
Grow your own Microgreens
Microgreens are densely seeded edible plants that are harvested and consumed before they are mature. Microgreens are a nutritional powerhouse, holding up to 40 times more vitamins and nutrition th…
Grow Your Own Garlic
Attention garlic lovers! Why buy grocery-store garlic grown half way around the world when you can grow your own right at home? It’s an easy-to-grow, low maintenance crop that produces two harvests…