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Simplestead Guide to Pruning Plants
Basic Skills, potager

Simplestead Guide to Pruning Plants

Each morning I walk our dogs through the semi-wild parts of our wooded property. There I encounter various trees, shrubs, … Continue reading Simplestead Guide to Pruning Plants

Growing, Harvesting, and Curing Saffron at Home (with Video)
potager, Spices

Growing, Harvesting, and Curing Saffron at Home (with Video)

Saffron is one of the most exotic seeming and expensive spices in the world. Yet I grow an abundant perennial … Continue reading Growing, Harvesting, and Curing Saffron at Home (with Video)

Decorative and Useful Garden Fencing
Inspiration, potager

Decorative and Useful Garden Fencing

You know that expression “good fences make good neighbors”? Well, I always thought of that turn of phrase as negative. … Continue reading Decorative and Useful Garden Fencing

Growing and Harvesting Ginger at Home (with Video and a Peak in My Fall Garden)
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Growing and Harvesting Ginger at Home (with Video and a Peak in My Fall Garden)

Hi everyone! It’s finally fall here in Northwestern North Carolina. After the intense heat, humidity, and heavy rains we’ve had … Continue reading Growing and Harvesting Ginger at Home (with Video and a Peak in My Fall Garden)

Potager Gardening in a Crisis
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Potager Gardening in a Crisis

The COVID-19 virus has made it difficult for grocery stores to keep shelves stocked. I visited the grocery for the … Continue reading Potager Gardening in a Crisis

Choosing the Right Plants for Your Garden
Inspiration, potager

Choosing the Right Plants for Your Garden

Choosing the plants that will grow well in your climate, weather, soil type, and garden is quite complicated. That’s why … Continue reading Choosing the Right Plants for Your Garden

What to Grow in Your Potager (including  a list of 30 categories of plants to consider)
Herbs, Inspiration, potager

What to Grow in Your Potager (including a list of 30 categories of plants to consider)

It can be difficult to think beyond the grocery store, or the farmers market, when deciding what kind of food … Continue reading What to Grow in Your Potager (including a list of 30 categories of plants to consider)

Vegetable Garden Planting Calendar
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Vegetable Garden Planting Calendar

If you are new to gardening and looking for a quick and easy tool to help you decide what to … Continue reading Vegetable Garden Planting Calendar

The Power of a Well-Planned Potager
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The Power of a Well-Planned Potager

Do you want your garden to produce food even with 4 weeks of neglect in extreme heat and dry weather? Then plant a well-planned potager garden. Continue reading The Power of a Well-Planned Potager

Harvest and Succession Plant Your Homestead Potager
Basic Skills, potager

Harvest and Succession Plant Your Homestead Potager

The garden explosion happened. Those tiny, seedlings I showed pictures of in the last post Plant Your Homestead Potager suddenly … Continue reading Harvest and Succession Plant Your Homestead Potager

Plant Your Homestead Potager
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Plant Your Homestead Potager

Now that you’ve constructed your homestead potager, it’s time to plant. Well, almost… There are two more things I suggest … Continue reading Plant Your Homestead Potager

Constructing Your Homestead Potager
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Constructing Your Homestead Potager

With all the hard work of gathering inspiration, choosing a garden site, deciding on our paths and bed design, and … Continue reading Constructing Your Homestead Potager

The Homestead Potager Garden Design
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The Homestead Potager Garden Design

In previous posts, I covered some things I know to be beneficial about choosing your potager location and designing your … Continue reading The Homestead Potager Garden Design

Homestead Potager Garden Bed Design
Basic Skills, potager

Homestead Potager Garden Bed Design

The first gardens were forest gardens. Actually they were more like cultivated forests than gardens. The plants that humans found … Continue reading Homestead Potager Garden Bed Design

Pathways For Your Homestead Potager
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Pathways For Your Homestead Potager

When you see past the pretty flowers and profuse plantings, you’ll discover that every garden has bones and secrets buried … Continue reading Pathways For Your Homestead Potager

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