Preserved in their purity without genetic modification, those natural bean seeds can be collected and used again. Anybody interested in starting an urban homestead would be wise to acquire a large supply of heirloom bean seeds.
Category: Growing Food
Tips and Techniques for Growing Food.
With proper preparation and care, you can expect to harvest fresh from your indoor garden celery.
Growing fresh cabbage in your yard from seed, is a lot easier than you might think. Expect your cabbage to reach maturity in sixty to one hundred days.
As an integral part of a healthy diet, one must know the best time to harvest and store carrots to ensure that the produce is fresh and healthy.
Learn the methods of getting these leftover vegetables to grow into healthy plants.
Discover the art of picking honeydew melons at their peak of ripeness for the sweetest and juiciest taste.
Tomatoes are the number one vegetable in home gardens. It seems like everyone has their secrets on how to grow the first, biggest, tastiest or prettiest tomatoes.
If you have old car tires hanging around in the garage put them to work growing vegetables.
Radishes are easy, uncomplicated and quick to grow, producing a crop in only 3-4 weeks. Even their young leaves are edible!
Experienced gardeners and homesteaders know, from trial and error, that it s best to get into self-sufficiency one task at a time.
Vegetable gardening can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life. Eating your own fresh vegetables picked straight off the plant or fresh from the ground with the real taste still intact beats store brought produce every time.
You can grow an enormous crop of potatoes without any of the backbreaking effort of digging. Just follow these steps.
Economically it is cheaper for most of us in a small family to simply go to the market and buy the vegetables we need, but it is not nearly as much fun as growing them yourself and the food is usually tastier and healthier for you.
It is almost time to start planting tomato seeds for this summer’s crop. Even though there is still snow on the ground in many parts of the country, planting these tiny seeds gives us something to do while we’re waiting for warmer weather.
Edible landscaping is the process of planting edible plants in a landscape, rather than in a traditional garden.