Soil Health is the Foundation of Your Garden
Your guide to building soil health: Compost, amendments, micronutrients.
Organic Matter – It’s What Plants Crave.
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Homestead Aquaponics, Step by Step – The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed
Real-world aquaponics. The World’s Greatest Ebb and Flow Bed.
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The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener: How to Grow Your Own Food 365 Days a Year
Even in winter’s coldest months you can harvest fresh, delicious greens and herbs! Niki Jabbour shares her simple techniques for gardening throughout the year.
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Plant Leaf Lettuce to Eat Lettuce All Season
Leaf lettuce is a “cut and come again” crop. You can cut as much as you want, and the lettuce will regrow those leaves. This continues until it bolts or frosts.
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Mini Farming: Self Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
Go back to basics—compost, raising chickens, water and irrigation, dealing with pests, and much more—with this unique, full color bestseller (over 400,000 sold).
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Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination
Landrace gardening is adapting crops to your land and climate, and then saving seeds, while also selecting for the best flavor, color, and pest and disease resistance.
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Interplanting Perennials with Annuals in the Garden
It is still March. The last frost in NE Kansas is still over a month away. It is encouraging to see the perennials – walking onions, bloody dock sorrel, and plantain already prominent and harvestable in modest amounts. I plucked some Narrow Leaf plantain (perennial) and some mustard that overwintered and fed them to my chickens. These pictures are from late April last year. The perennials are going full speed. I planted annual Black Seeded Simpson lettuce between them and had cut and come again lettuce throughout the Spring. Last year I converted some of my garden, the peripheral parts, into perennials, with annuals in the middle. The Benefits of Adding Perennials to Your Garden Regular greens in my garden bolt quickly when it gets hot in early summer. Perennial Garden Beds More info on how I am using Milpa gardening to start new beds, cover crop with produce in the first year. I used my Meadow Creature broadfork to turn over grass, spread Milpa seed, covered with a layer of wood chips. It leaves a natural mulch and builds soil.
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The Myth of the $64 Tomato
Surely you have heard horror stories of how much goes into growing the lowly tomato plant. Infrastructure, fertilizer, seed. What you are, reportedly, left with is an equivalent of a $64 tomato, when duly amortized. No. Just grow.
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How I created an Apple Guild – Permaculture
Turn a corner of your garden into Hassle-Free Permaculture Perennial Production
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Plant a Food Forest that Mimics the Edge of the Forest in Nature
Take a walk in the forest. If you look at the “edge” of the woods, you will see multiple layers growing naturally together – nuts, fruit, shrubs, herbs. A food forest mimics the edge of the woods from Nature.
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