Growing Mushrooms For Fun And Profit :
Growing Mushrooms For Fun And Profit
Growing Hops For Home Beer Brewing Growing your own hops will take your home beer brewing to a whole new level. With so many different varieties to choose from brings an opportunity for a wide range of flavor profiles and the added depth of flavors that can only come from using fresh hops. Hop Plants …
Cut-Flowers – Tips For Success Are you thinking of trying your hand at cut-flower growing? Cut-flower gardening is a beautiful way to foster some creativity right in your own backyard or even balcony. Wherever your cut flowers end up—on your kitchen table, in a loved one’s home, or your local community center—they are sure …
Good Reads For Homesteading, Market Gardening, Farming, And More If you’d like to dig deeper into homesteading, permaculture, market gardening, bioremediation, high tunnels, low tunnels, or greenhouse growing, then here is a great place to start. Here we have put together a short list of authors that we think will give you a great start …
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Potato Growing Guide Potatoes from seed? Yes indeed! Growing potatoes from seeds (often called “true potato seed” or TPS), instead of tubers, means each plant is genetically different, rather than a clone, adding diversity to the garden. If you were wondering how to grow potatoes from seed, you’ve come to the right place! SOWING When …
Sunflower: Sow and Grow Guide The botanical name, Helianthus, comes from the Greek words, helios meaning “sun” and anthos meaning “flower”. The sunflower is the state flower of Kansas. Sunflower buds (immature flowers) and leaves turn to follow the sun from east to west each day (a response called “heliotropism”), and once the flowers have fully …
5 Steps To Harden Off Seedlings Plants are like babies. When we start them indoors, we keep them sheltered and give them everything they need for success-consistent temperature, plenty of light, and the perfect amount of water. But eventually, they have to go out into the big outside world, and that’s why you need to …
Strawberries From Seed: Growing Guide Strawberries are a sweet treat to grow in your own garden and grow great in a container. Starting strawberries from seed is fun and much less expensive than buying plants, but they do take a bit of patience to get from seed to fruit. Alpine strawberries are perennial in USDA …
Apartment Gardening: Making your own soil Get the most from those Amazon boxes and coffee grounds with these simple steps to your own organically rich soil. With a few simple steps and a little time, you can create your own organically rich soil, and find a better use for things you already have around your …
Why Turkish Cotton? The Details If you have shopped for sheets, towels, blankets, or bath robes, you’ve probably heard Turkish Cotton mentioned. So at some point you must have asked the question , “Why Turkish Cotton? Isn’t it all just cotton? ” Today we’ll take a look at the “Why” and …
General Seed starting. Growing Conditons, And Transplanting