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Grow a fall vegetable garden by sowing seeds for these 16 vegetables in July and August. Includes root veggies, salad greens, Asian greens, and information on sowing times, and long-day vs short-day veg #vegetablegarden #gardeningtips
Unique crops to grow in this year’s garden including vegetables from around the world, edible flowers and weeds, plants that produce food for years, and unexpected vegetables When you grow your own food, the culinary world can be your oyster. You can grow common, easy-to-grow vegetables, of course, but you can also choose to add…
Discover thrifty ways to get plants for free. Learn how to bulk out your garden and growing space with plants that are free or cost practically nothing.
Grow your own medicinal herb larder with these ideas for plants to grow in a salve garden. Includes plants to infuse into healing balms to soothe eczema, bug bites, and minor burns and injuries If you are interested in plants for skin care and skin healing, you should consider growing a salve garden. Plants in…
How to make garden stepping stones using colorful sea glass. This project requires only a few inexpensive materials including glass pieces. Sea glass can have romantic origins — it could come from old Victorian bottles or broken glass from a shipwreck. Most of the time it comes from modern-day bottles. Most of the rubbish that…
Make a simple DIY bokashi bin using recycled buckets and an inoculated starter. The bokashi composting method allows you to compost cooked food including meat, dairy, fish, and bones. Though many of us have a compost bin, we are taught that there are things that we simply cannot compost. Cooked food, meat, fish, bones, dairy,…
May garden jobs including seeds to sow, crops to harvest, garden tasks, and DIY projects. Use these tips to have your garden flourishing with homegrown produce and flowers May is a landmark month in the gardening calendar as the soil and weather warms. The garden is just beginning to fill in, climb supports, and produce…