Potatoes are one of the easiest, cost effective, beneficial, productive and nutritious vegetables to grow. But storing the harvest can prove problematic at times and so alternative methods like pressure canning and freezing have to be used to preserve the…
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Apr 21 2024
The Tomato Trial - Results of 2023 Tomato Trial and What's New for 2024
For years I only planted tomatoes I could get in the local stores or nurseries. But I got tired of the same varieties and when I found something I liked, they were not always available year to year. So I…
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Mar 31 2024
Does Gardening Save Me Money - A Year In Review
Although I have been gardening for decades, it has always been viewed by folks as a lot of work that does nothing to save money. “You can buy it cheaper in the store” and “Once you include your labor and…
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Apr 18 2023
Garden planning and seed starting
The calendar flips to the new year and my thoughts turn to planting the garden and looking into things to grow for the upcoming season. And as winter turns to spring, the gardening itch gets a little more serious and…
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Mar 22 2023
Tomatoes - A guide to choosing tomato varieties
Tomatoes are a member of botanical family Solanaceae which make up a group of plants better known as nightshades. Surprising to me, there are over 10,000 recorded tomato varieties with more being developed all the time as home gardeners breed…
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Dec 4 2022
Growing Garlic In Raised Bed Garden For Culinary and Medicinal Use
For years I bought softneck garlic every spring and although I did have limited success, the bulbs that were produced, if any, were less than impressive. It always seemed that they would not have enough time to grow to maturity…
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Aug 29 2022
In the garden - When Garden Planning does Not go as Planned
Like most gardeners, I take the time in the late winter and early spring to do garden planning for the upcoming season. What grew well in the previous years, what I will plant, where I will plant and when I…
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Aug 26 2022
Fall planting of cool weather crops for fall gardening in Zone 3b
As the cooler temperatures and shorter days of the fall season become noticeable, I start to think about getting things ready for the winter that lies ahead. But I also start to look at the garden and realize it will…
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Aug 7 2022
The Potato - Are Potatoes indeterminate or determinate?
The potato is probably one of the most consumed vegetable around the world and is grown commercially and in most home gardens around the world. But yet good crops can be somewhat evasive at times. A very common question that…
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Jul 24 2022
Back to Eden Gardening, Homemade Woven Weed Fabric and other projects - An Update
As part of my gardening and homesteading life, I like to learn about new methods, research how to improve old methods and sometimes resourcefulness comes into play to develop new ones. But part of ensuring the success of it all…
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May 18 2022
How to container garden
We all have pictures in our minds of how a garden should look with it's weed free rows growing this winters produce or maybe it is just a small backyard garden where we go to get the salad fixings for…
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