How to Build a Simple Hoop House
Follow me The easiest way to protect your plants for the winter is to put them in a row, say 6 or 7
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The 10 best egg-laying chickens for a prepper’s homestead
Follow me Keeping egg-laying chickens offers several benefits. They supply fresh eggs daily, eat insect pests, and make for a steady source of income
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Tree Pruning Tips
Follow me There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive
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6 Very Beneficial Insects: To Know Them Is To Love Them!
Follow me Speaking strictly from a gardener’s perspective …There are good bugs and there are bad bugs. And the more you have of
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Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
Follow me You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the
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Composting the Easy Way
Follow me Having an ample supply of good rich compost is the gardeners dream. It has many uses, and all of those uses
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Get a Head Start on Gardening with Cold Frames
Follow me Using a cold frame is a great way to get a head start on starting your garden or used as a
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Nutritious Food Plants You Can Harvest Quickly
Follow me Admit it, we want things to happen fast. We’re a society of fast food, fast internet, and instant gratification. But when
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10 Healing superfoods you can easily grow in your garden
Follow me The key to a healthy diet is within your reach. You don’t need to go far to get it – since
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7 Reasons Why You Should Have a Medicinal Garden
Follow me Growing medicinal plants are a great way to ensure garden sustainability and more notably, have access to natural medicine when you need
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You Can Grow World’s Smallest Garden in Recycled Bottles
Follow me Got zero space? Got zero time? Got wine bottles strewn over the floor after your last drunken fiesta? Good news –
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A Beautifully Efficient DIY Dome Greenhouse
Follow me Geodesic dome greenhouses are beautiful, for sure, but they have many other advantages that make them a great option for backyard
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20 Medicinal Herbs That I Have in My Prepper Garden
Follow me “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” – Hippocrates So, many of you may be asking why I want
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Stacking Functions: Increasing Yields & Decreasing Labor with Multi-Function Elements
Follow me You don’t have to buy into any woo-woo-ology or being “green” to reap the benefits of some of the concepts to
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The Secret to Building a Salad Keyhole Garden
Follow me A keyhole garden is a remarkably adaptable element that works in a range of garden styles. Visiting other people’s gardens is
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No Yard? No Problem! You Can STILL Grow Food!
Follow me Everyone is talking about growing their own food. Lots of people are starting backyard gardens, filling pots on balconies and patios,
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Hay and Straw Bale Gardening: Everything You Wanted to Know for the Best Bounty Ever
Follow me Two years ago, we moved into a house that had an abandoned garden; and to put it bluntly, the garden was
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25 Survival Seeds You Need For Your Garden
Follow me Living off the land sounds as inviting as Christmas dinner. But many have hardly had adequate experience being “farmers.” In fact,
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20 Early Spring Edibles: How And When To Grow Them
Follow me When you have been stuck indoors all winter long, even a few patches of brown grass and soil poking through on
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Basic Survival Food From Your Garden: Corn
Follow me Corn has a bad reputation today. Besides being genetically modified, corn today has been transformed into high-fructose corn syrup. It’s creeping
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10 Medicinal Plants that Should be in Every Garden
Follow me Playful as kids are, accidents happen. And the accident that befallen me at 7 years old was the feeling of the
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Garden Basics: Weeding 101
Follow me Weeding. I know, it seems mundane, but it’s a skill that could mean the difference between a bumper crop and a
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Survival Food – 10 You Should Be Growing Yourself
Follow me Editors Note: This post was generously contributed by The Prepper Project While I completely understand the value behind buying freeze dried
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Growing Food In Different Climate Zones
Follow me Starting a new fruit or vegetable garden can be an exciting time, and it can be difficult to know where exactly
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