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 …
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 …
General Seed starting. Growing Conditons, And Transplanting
Seed Starting Basics Seed gardening is the most rewarding type of gardening! To take a small, dormant capsule of life and unlock its culinary and/or aesthetic potential is glorious indeed! There are few gardening experiences as rewarding as gardening from seed. If you’re a novice gardener and you’re wondering whether you need to start …
Chickens Make My Breakfast: Best Backyard Breeds Even if you live in an urban neighborhood and only have a small backyard, having your own small flock is totally doable. Chickens are pretty low maintenance, just some feed, water, and a safe place to sleep is all it really takes. And not only do they reward …
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