In a video from this past winter, I talked about my Top Ten Tips for Gardening on a Budget. One of those tips is saving seeds. In addition to saving you money, saving seeds allows you to set up more of a closed loop system on your property, working towards less and less inputs that you […]
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September is the time for tomatoes…probably our family’s favorite harvest of the season. There is nothing quite like biting into a garden tomato just plucked from the vine, the literal fruit of your labor over the spring and summer months. This year, I planted about forty tomato plants and plan on preserving them in a
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For those of us who have vegetable gardens, I think we all dream of low maintenance, high-yielding beautiful gardens that require very little water and barely any work. Sound about right? Especially in permaculture, we strive to design systems that are as self-maintaining and self-perpetuating as possible. In my video today, I share how I
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At the end of the growing season last year, one of my volunteers remarked, “I think you have given us hundreds of dollars worth of vegetables this fall.” Indeed, growing your own garden often means that you are saving money on produce that would normally cost a lot of money in the grocery store, especially
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I don’t know about you but with the gorgeous fall we’ve been having, I still have my tomato and pepper plants in the ground, not to mention all of the cool season crops that continue to produce. A few light frosts have nipped my basil but other than that, this has certainly been the longest
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We’re nearing the end of August which, in a cold climate, usually means the end of the growing season. Are you worried that those luscious green tomatoes on the vine will never see their true color before the frost hits? Let’s face it, there are only so many fried green tomatoes that you can eat.
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It’s been awhile since my last video series or update. As usual, I got sucked into the spring growing season with bed prep, pond installation, babying seedlings, weeding, and trying to save my plants from the afternoon hailstorms. So, how’s your garden growing? Needless to say, with all the rain that we’ve been having, my broccoli,
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