Gardening

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

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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

6 Tips for Dividing Perennials in the Spring

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

Jackson Perkins Jackson Perkins

Growing Bamboo on the Homestead

You have probably heard horror stories from someone who planted a small…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Backyard Garden Dreamin’

Would you like to create an edible landscape? Some individuals are turning…

Dorothy Rieke Dorothy Rieke

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

Food Forever: Creating a Perennial Food Forest

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

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Designing an Herb Garden

Herbs are easy to grow as most of them are generally undemanding,…

Jenny Flores Jenny Flores

Soil Mineralization According to The Intelligent Gardener

Once upon a time, there was a Garden Guru named Steve Solomon,…

Magdalena Alvarez Magdalena Alvarez

Easy as Pie: The Myth of Simple Living

To a generation who grew up on Lassie, Little House on the…

Sheri Dixon Sheri Dixon

Farmers of Fungi: Growing Mushrooms and Mycorrhizae in Your Vegetable Patch

In the last 40 years, human understanding of fungi, and their role…

Dustin Eirdosh Dustin Eirdosh

Your Medicinal Garden: Ten Herbs to Plant This Spring

Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail.  All…

Karyn Sweet Karyn Sweet

The Three Sisters Legacy: The Science Behind Companion Planting

There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why…

Clare Brandt Clare Brandt