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18 Perennial Veggies You Can Plant Once and Harvest For Years
Nature is incredibly diverse, just as it is full of overflowing abundance. We don’t always see it, though it is there. And yet, we often limit ourselves to a handful of well-known fruits and vegetables. At some point, your garden and your homesteading skills need to expand, there is no other way around positive growth. Foraging is one…
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12 DIY Cucumber Trellis & Support Ideas
Cucumbers are relatively easy to grow, but they can take up quite a lot of space in your garden, but provide a trellis or support for your cucumbers and you can grow them vertically, yielding more cucumbers in less space. In this article, we’ll explore twelve cucumber trellis ideas to help you grow more in…
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9 Soil Amendments to Put In Your Vegetable Planting Holes
It’s time to get those seedlings planted in the garden. Whether you’ve spent the past few months growing them yourself or picked up some starter packs at the local nursery, now is the time to get them in the ground. Hold on! Before you plunk a single seedling in the dirt, don’t miss out on…
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25 Shade Loving Perennials To Brighten Up Shady Spots
Shade loving plants are adapted to very little sunlight because of their place in the forest understory. Since the canopies of larger trees and shrubs block as much as 95% of the sunlight that reaches the forest floor, understory plants have evolved to utilize the very little light they do receive to photosynthesize and reproduce.…
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8 Best Raised Garden Bed Materials (& 5 You Should Never Use)
When it comes to building a raised garden bed, the possibilities are many. Raised beds can take on countless shapes, sizes, layouts, and materials. From wood, metal, stone, and plastic to wine bottles, dressers, animal troughs, canoes, and cardboard boxes, there’s no shortage of creative ways people have dreamed up to garden above ground. As…
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21 Plants That Bloom All Summer Long
As spring wears off and summer heat picks up, most gardeners find it rather tiring to work in the garden. That’s why you need to look for flowering plants––both annuals and perennials––that bloom profusely throughout the season without much pampering from you. Fortunately, you have a wide selection of summer bloomers to choose from. Petunia…
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10 Non-Pickle Ways to Preserve Cucumbers + 5 Killer Pickles
It’s hard to be cool as a cucumber when your garden gifts you with numerous and beautiful cukes, more than you can eat at once. For, as we all know, they only survive about one week after harvest in the fridge. Even less if you cut into them. Cucumbers really are short-lived fruits, though we…
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26 Drought Tolerant Plants That Will Survive The Driest Conditions
Isn’t that the goal, to be completely low maintenance and look great while you’re at it? It’s no longer function, style, fashion, or trend. If we want to have beautiful blooming backyards, choosing tough, self-reliant plants that don’t require excessive water is an absolute must. Xeriscaping, also known as gardening in a water-efficient conservational way…
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When and How To Sow Nasturtiums?
Easy to sow and cultivate, nasturtiums offer simple but very colorful flowers. You can sow climbing nasturtiums to let them fall, run on stakes or on a fence, or sow dwarf nasturtiums , to be used in this case rather in planters, on the edge of beds or in the vegetable patch. Do nasturtiums grow…
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Top 6 Fall Vegetables To Plant and Harvest In Just 45 Days
There is, amazingly, still time to plant some tasty fall vegetables. And it makes no difference whether your garden is conventional or raised, or if you use pots or containers. Even though the end of summer and the beginning of fall are rapidly approaching, there are still enough growing days in most growing zones to…