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Watering Outside Plants: Fall and Winter Guidelines Zones 5-6
Grave Gardening: Back From the Dead!
Grave gardening is a fun new trend that actually has its roots in the Victorian Age. Planting flowers around a grave was a common hobby in the 1800s both in America and Europe.
Planting around headstones, filling cradle graves, to lush plantings in forgotten rural cemeteries, grave gardening is coming back from the dead.
Little Sprouts: Fun and Easy Ways to Grow
Sprouts are the supreme indoor gardening crop. They are fun and easy to grow. Sprouts contain high levels of nutrients and take up very little space.
There are several ways to grow sprouts from Mason jars to hemp bags to stacking trays. The method is often a personal choice and what works best for you.
Best Fruit Trees for the Apartment Gardener: My Top 7 Picks
Recently started indoor gardening as an apartment gardener?
You may be wondering about the different plants you can grow in your own cozy apartment. Well, why not grow some mini fruit trees that will not only enhance the aesthetic of your apartment but will also bear fruit - literally!
Here are my seven favorite fruit trees for apartment gardeners like us!
Indoor Gardening: Mushroom Adventures
My latest indoor gardening adventure is growing mushrooms indoors. Mushrooms are quick and easy to grow indoors. They are a nutritious food that is high in selenium and potassium.
Way back in the day, I worked at an organic gourmet mushroom farm where we grew oyster and shitake mushrooms in bags of straw that hung in a greenhouse. Now I am just growing them on a smaller scale.
5 Tips For Beginner Apartment Gardeners
Moving into a new apartment can be a hectic tiring experience. I know because I recently moved from a rural farm to an urban apartment. There can be lots to think about including how to design your space.
Where to place your plants so they receive what they need is important. . Many people want to have gardens within their apartments for many different reasons, such as aesthetic quality, health benefits, and cooking ingredients.
Growing Apples in Zone 6B
Growing Fruit Trees in Zone 6B
Building and Using Cold Frames to Extend Your Harvest
Imagine a snowy day in December. You go out to the garden, uncover the cold frame, and pick some nice fresh greens for dinner. This is something I do in my USDA Zone 6 garden.
Cold Frames are a great way to extend your harvest. They’re easy and cheap to build and give a lot back for the money. Cold frames allow you to eat fresh food for a longer period of time.
Starting an Internship Program on Your Small Farm
Planning For Perennials Zone 6B
Perennials will add a great deal of variety to your garden plan. These plants live for several years or more. I always tell my students to plant perennials first.
Perennial fruits, vegetables, and herbs will make a considerable impact towards self-sufficiency goals and your food security. They are also beautiful landscape plants.
Strawberries Zone 6B Growing and Using
What is the best thing about June? Fresh strawberries, of course! Strawberries are easy to grow and provide an excellent yield for the amount of space.
In addition to the fantastic taste, strawberries have many great qualities. They are the first fruit of the season and the quickest fruit to produce from planting to eating. Strawberries are also very nutritious and are loaded with vitamin C and antioxidants.
Root Crops in Zone 6B - Growing and Using
Root crops often get overlooked in the plumage of greens and the bliss of fresh tomatoes. Crops such as beets, carrots, radishes, and turnips may not make our top ten list of yummy things to plant.
However, they are wonderful to grow for fresh eating and for storage. Working on becoming self-sufficient? Expand your culinary tastes with some of my favorite root crop recipes at the end of this article.
Growers in USDA Zone 6b often feel challenged by root crops. Clay soil, spring downpours, and summer humidity all seem to challenge these root crops. You can overcome these challenges and grow healthy abundant crops.
Using Mulch to Improve Your Garden
Mulch is a workhorse in the garden. It protects plants, warms the soil, and retains moisture. Mulch can be natural or synthetic.
Natural or organic mulch typically comes from plants such as straw, wheat, or pine needles. However, sheep wool is also a wonderful mulch. Natural mulches degrade and become part of the soil.
3 Simple Must Haves For Soil Health
Broccoli: Growing and Cooking in Zone 6
Starting a Medicinal Herb Garden
Growing Mushrooms Naturally Using the Trench Log and Log Raft Methods
Trench Log and Log Raft are two techniques that capitalize on the way the fungus grows naturally. In nature, many mushroom species grow on old logs. Trees that have lived out their lives or gotten damaged in a storm. Both the trench log and the log raft methods of growing mushrooms benefit from this natural method. Increased moisture, a condensed fruiting area, and natural microclimate make for good mushroom production.
This article will introduce you to these two natural ways to grow your favorite mushrooms.
Growing and Using Mint
Mint is all around you - literally! There are many varieties of mint and it has long been used as flavorings in foods, gum, toothpaste, antacids, and cough drops.
Mint is great for using in herbal teas, salads, soups, cookies, and for this Kentucky girl - mint juleps!
This article will look at the many varieties of mint, how to grow it (and contain it) and some exceptional recipes you will love.