Planting and tending a backyard garden leads to one of the most fulfilling activities you'll find outdoors (outside of going for long walks with nowhere particular to go): harvesting. Gardening is food for the soul, just as it is nourishment for you and your loved ones, neighbors and random visitors included. It gives you a sense of pride, accomplishment and joy, as it increases your awareness of living in harmony with nature. That is, if you choose the route of gardening organically. … [Read more...] about Buying Garden Seeds: Everything You Need To Know
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12 Tools Every Tomato Grower Needs + 5 Tomato Growing Tips
It's every gardener's dream to grow a bumper crop of mouthwateringly delicious tomatoes. Red ones, yellow ones, striped ones, green ones, purple ones. Cherry tomatoes, red and green beefsteaks, Brandywine, Cherokee Chocolate and Yellow Oxheart, just to name a few more. With a myriad of heirloom tomato varieties out there, it is hard to stick to growing just one variety. After all, your garden can be so much more diverse than your local grocery store! So, once you get the hang of … [Read more...] about 12 Tools Every Tomato Grower Needs + 5 Tomato Growing Tips
26 Vegetables To Grow In The Shade
Are your garden harvests smaller than you dreamed of? Have you come to the realization that your garden may be in a less than an ideal location? Think again. You may be trying to grow the wrong vegetables, given your climate or access to sunlight. Or perhaps your garden just needs some additional manure or comfrey fertilizer to nourish the hungry plants - or both. The location and layout of a garden both mean a lot to the success of a bountiful growing season, as does: seed … [Read more...] about 26 Vegetables To Grow In The Shade
How to Chit Seed Potatoes + Planting & Growing Tips
Winter is the time to plan for the growing season ahead. You might be surprised by the number of gardening jobs you have to do. You'll be kept busy, even when the days are still very short and very cold. Along with planting some long-season and early seeds, one of the main jobs early in the year is beginning to chit seed potatoes. This is one of the simplest and easiest jobs to do early in the year. It can give you a great head-start on the season to come. Choosing Seed … [Read more...] about How to Chit Seed Potatoes + Planting & Growing Tips
How To Prune Raspberries For A Bumper Harvest Year After Year
Raspberries are one of the most delicious berries to grow in your garden. A delicious perennial that will return year after year with proper pruning. They are certainly a favourite for us. On our property, we have a wide range of raspberries – wild and cultivated. We grow a number of different raspberries that give us fruit over the whole of summer and early fall. If you already grow these fruit canes, you will know that learning how to prune raspberries is one of the key skills … [Read more...] about How To Prune Raspberries For A Bumper Harvest Year After Year
Straw Bale Gardening: A Genius & Easy Way To Grow Food
Image Credit: Laura Hamilton @ Flickr Are you ready to turn a straw bale into a garden? No, it is not magic, but it can be a lot of fun, and it can provide you with many nourishing meals too - even enough surplus veggies to can and preserve food for winter! If you find that the soil in your backyard is too hard, or generally unsuitable for gardening, why not try a straw bale garden next season to see what the "to-do" is all about. Straw bale gardening - What is it and what it's … [Read more...] about Straw Bale Gardening: A Genius & Easy Way To Grow Food