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
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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
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
Meyer Lemon Love
If you are looking for a plant to make you happy mid-winter, let me tell you about these glorious golden … Continue reading Meyer Lemon Love
Cilantro and Coriander
Coriander and Cilantro are the same plant at different stages. Learn how to grow and use both. Continue reading Cilantro and Coriander
Persian Basil
Persian basil is a mild tasting,easy to grow, member of the basil family. Continue reading Persian Basil
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
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
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
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
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
Starting a Homestead Potager
I strongly believe that all in-ground homestead vegetable gardens should be “potagers”. Potager is a French word that embodies the … Continue reading Starting a Homestead Potager
Less Trash + More Bokashi = Garden Love
I hate to take out the trash. It actually makes me sad when I see all the stuff I send … Continue reading Less Trash + More Bokashi = Garden Love
Simple Vermicomposting
All organic gardens start with compost. That’s why, in our last post, we started saving materials to make compost in … Continue reading Simple Vermicomposting
Garden Dreams and Compost Calculations
Are you dreaming of a big, beautiful garden full of lush, tasty vegetables and fruits? Can you image the smell … Continue reading Garden Dreams and Compost Calculations
