Are you ready to start a garden, but just don't know how? This guide will give you all the tools to feel confident planning, planting, harvesting and preserving your garden. Learn how to grow your own food and save money at the same time!
Tag: Garden
Unlock the Secrets to a Perfect Garden Layout! (A Reference Tool for Gardeners)
Ever wonder how expert gardeners know how to layout their vegetable gardens? Here's your guide to companion planting, succession planting, taxonomy, and growing requirements for all your crops with quick references and helpful infographics. Get ready for the biggest harvests you've ever had!
Raised Bed Vegetable Garden Plan
Click for an up close look at this potager design layout for a raised bed vegetable garden. The detailed diagrams have great examples of companion planting and intercropping.
Veggie Garden Supply List (includes starting seeds indoors)
I have so many people asking what supplies they truly NEED to get started with a new garden. I thought this list would help all the beginner gardeners out there.
My Passion for Permaculture (and how to apply it to your homestead)
Permaculture principles can decrease your work load, make your garden more productive, make your animals healthier, and generally improve all the systems on your farm or homestead.
How to Start Homesteading Where You Live Today!
Looking for ideas on how to get started homesteading? Here are a few simple first steps to get you moving toward a more self-reliant lifestyle.
How to grow an herb garden (and never pay for spices again!) – Part 2
Learn the entire process of growing your own herbs! From how to start seeds indoors to turning them into amazing dried spices - and everything in between!
How to grow an herb garden (and never pay for spices again!) – Part 1
With a tiny bottle of spices costing anywhere from $3 to $10 a pop, there’s a huge incentive to save yourself hundreds of dollars a year and grow your own herbs! Here’s a great list of herbs to grow in your own backyard garden or windowsill.
Our Homesteading Story
This is the story of how I went from a normal, everyday housewife to a crazy, obsessive self-sufficiency advocate and homesteading junkie. (And this was just year one!)
The perpetual veggie garden (never buy another transplant or seed packet again!)
Most plants, given the chance will reseed themselves, just as nature intended and continue the life cycle. Plant the first year and let seed pods and overripe fruits fall to the ground for next years growing season.