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Category: Gardens
June 13, 2023 – Starting Garden Beds
June 12, 2023 – Developing Gardens
The Farm Garden (1931)
Guide to Home Vegetable Gardening (1906)
Building a New Vegetable Garden
If you watch YouTube videos or read website articles about building vegetable gardens, you’ll find stores like Home Depot trying to sell raised bed kits, topsoil etc.. You’ll end up spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on supplies and not have a single vegetable to show for it. Besides the challenge of gardening is learning…
Keep It Simple and Sustainable
When you begin the work of building a garden or developing a farm, your success will be determined by your ability to overcome one vice: impatience. The thought of having a beautiful farm filled with animals, or a peaceful garden filled with fruits and vegetables, can be difficult to contain. When we walk into a…
Flowers and Flower Lore, by Rev. Hederic Friend
Compost Time
Garden bed turned over, ready for compost. It’s time to get to work preparing garden soil for the Spring. Growing fertile soil is the most important part of responsible self-sufficiency, and we’re tempted to neglect it to rush ahead to cooler activities we’re interested in. We have to resist this temptation. On our farm, we…
Garlic
Garlic cloves are planted in the fall. More than just a source of flavoring, garlic is one of the most important plants in the garden. Pliny listed over 60 known remedies provided by garlic. Garlic cloves for planting can be purchased easily online. Note that “hardneck” varieties are recommended for colder climates and “softneck” for…