Flowers and Horticulture

Homesteading Flowers and Horticulture articles collected over two decades from experienced homesteaders who know what they’re talking about.

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Foraging

Beginning and Ending with Seeds: Starting, Growing, and Saving Seeds

A garden offers some truly great benefits to those who undertake the…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores
What you can do with all your citrus peels? Enzyme fertilizer is an excellent way of using them in the garden and beyond.
DIY

Enzymes for Plants: The Secret to Boosting Harvests and Blooms

A great secret to a thriving garden, enzymes make nutrients in the…

Samuel Feldman Samuel Feldman
making soil for a weed free garden
Guides

Soil-Making Magic: The Secret Witches’ Spell for the Perfect Garden

Springtime gardens turn into summertime weed lots. Does this happen to you? …

Anthony Okrongly Anthony Okrongly
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Container gardening

6 Tips for Dividing Perennials in the Spring

Perennials offer great value in the flower or shade garden. These plants…

Jackson Perkins Jackson Perkins
Shade garden plants in a flowerbed in the trunk circle
Guides

Making The Most Of Shade: Plan, Plant, and Grow a Shade Garden

How to plan, plant, and grow a fabulous garden that lightens up…

Michael Feldmann Michael Feldmann
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Food

Food Forever: Creating a Perennial Food Forest

Growing our own produce is an important part of the homesteading lifestyle.…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores
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Foraging

Morel Hunters: Foraging for Morel Mushrooms

When the trees are sporting their new green leaves and the ground…

Melissa Hartner Melissa Hartner
Make Money With Specialty Herbs and Cut Flowers, make money with specialty herbs, cut and come again flowers, make money with herbs, start an herb business successful cut flower business
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Make Money with Specialty Herbs and Cut Flowers 

If you are looking for another income opportunity for your homestead, consider…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores
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African American

The Peanut Man: George Washington Carver

"I believe the Great Creator has put oil and ores on this…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Homesteading, Seed Heads, Winter Landscape, Landscaping, Wildflowers, Wildlife
Homesteading

Seed Heads Provide Food for Wildlife and Decorate the Winter Landscape

Once the last blazing maple leaf has floated to the ground and…

Jo Ann Abell Jo Ann Abell
Johnny Appleseed apples

Johnny Appleseed: The Myth and the Man

There are still those who think he was a myth, which is…

Barbara Bamberger-Scott Barbara Bamberger-Scott
Rose Mallow Hibiscus, homesteading, homestead
Flowers

Rose Mallow Hibiscus: Southern Belle Knocks Your Socks Off in August

I have a perversion. When I go for a walk around my…

Neil Shelton Neil Shelton

Behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there

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