Companion planting is an effective and natural way to protect your garden from insect pests and promote healthy growth among all your plants.
Category: Growing Food
Tips and Techniques for Growing Food.
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.
Once you have decided on the best position for your vegetable plot and how you are going to grow them, be it in raised beds, containers or on open ground, there are a few jobs you need to do before you can start growing.
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.
Most vegetables we grow in our gardens require a fair amount of water to produce healthy prolific crops. So which vegetables can we expect to do well in a drought?
If you’re growing sweet potatoes, the colors range from white to purple to brown to reddish, and the flesh colors range from white and yellow to orange and purple. Read more here!
Tomato plants require around 16 hours of light to grow and set fruit. However, they also need their dark time so make sure to create conditions to provide both day time and night time conditions for your plant. And of course, do not forget to water and fertilize them well.
This article will tell you how to go about growing avocado seeds into a beautiful plant.
Survival gardens differ from backyard gardens in that they’re more about prepping for long-term survival and self-sufficiency.
In this article, we’ll reveal the secrets to getting large heads of broccoli. We’ll show you the basics of how to plant, grow, harvest, and store broccoli.
When should you not mulch garlic? Why should you not mulch garlic with straw? Does garlic keep bad insects out of your garden? These questions and more are answered in this article on growing organic garlic.