Container gardening

6 Tips for Dividing Perennials in the Spring

Perennials offer great value in the flower or shade garden. These plants come back year after year with really minimal…

4 weeks ago

Waste Not, Want Not: Repurposing on the Homestead

Growing up in the rural Midwest, and being a child not unlike millions of others with a more selective than…

3 months ago

Helpful Homestead Hacks: Work Easier, Relax Harder

Homesteading can be tough, but there are tips and tricks—hacks—for any area of the homestead that can make life a…

5 months ago

Indoor Gardening in Winter

Those of us who live in areas of early frost, dread to see our gardens destroyed by it. Often, tomatoes…

7 months ago

8 Advantages of Hydroponics Versus Soil Gardening

A garden is both a thing of beauty and a labor of love.  There is something almost reverent about planting…

8 months ago

Basement Bunnies and Grow-box Gardening: The Challenges of Urban Homesteading

Tammy Curry greeted me with fresh homemade bread, slathered with butter, and a glass of cool sweet tea.  It was…

12 months ago

Container Gardening in the City: Urban Homesteading on a Budget

One man's trash is another's treasure, or in my case, his trash is my container garden. Container gardening in the…

1 year ago

Grub in a Tub: Container Gardening on the Homestead

How to Fight the High Cost of Groceries This Summer, Starting Right Now with Container Gardening. Well, I guess it’s…

1 year ago

The Four-season Garden

I have been gardening since before I could walk without tripping over my own feet, having been blessed with grandparents…

1 year ago

Growing Tomatoes and Peppers in Winter

Tomatoes and peppers are two of summer’s most-loved foods.  However, winter is quickly drawing near, and the garden is dying…

2 years ago

Like Water for… Tomatoes? Year-round Gardening with Hydroponics

Imagine plucking a ripe, round tomato right from the stem and sinking your teeth into its juicy flesh.  There’s nothing…

2 years ago

The Moonlight Garden: A Composition in White

American writer, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), gave a magical description of wandering through a moonlight garden that is as true now…

2 years ago