Packaged potting soils offer undeniable convenience, but the expense can quickly accumulate in a bustling garden. Looking ahead to the upcoming year, as my stockpile of decomposing sawdust reaches maturity, my aim is to achieve self-sufficiency when it comes to potting soil.
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How To Extend Your Growing Season
Embarking on the journey of growing your own food is a gratifying and essential experience for many. However, Mother Nature often likes to throw us a curve ball in the form of unpredictable weather conditions.
A Few Herbs To Grow and Use For Emotional Well-Being
Exploring the realm of medicinal herbs extends beyond their physical healing properties, as they possess the potential to support our mental and emotional well-being. In addition to their renowned immune-boosting, pain-relieving, and digestive benefits, herbs have the ability to alleviate anxiety, mild depression, induce relaxation, improve sleep, and enhance focus and mental clarity.
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How To Conserve Garden Soil Moisture During The Summer Months
This past winter marked a record-breaking drought spanning two decades, causing significant challenges for farmers in meeting deadlines and meeting the required standards for crop size, yield, and quality. The situation worsened as the dry spell extended into spring, particularly affecting the southern regions, where rainfall plummeted to a mere fifth of the usual average.
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Grow These Native Perennials With Pharmaceutical Properties
Throughout the annals of history, the indigenous peoples of North America possessed an extraordinary knowledge of their surroundings, harnessing the power of the land’s diverse flora to alleviate ailments that befell them. These Native Americans, with their profound understanding of medicinal plants, forged a symbiotic relationship with the natural world around them, employing botanical remedies passed down from one generation to the next.
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A Few Expert Tips On Harvesting More Produce And Longer Storage
There is a unique satisfaction in cultivating and preserving our own crops, serving as a reminder that the convenience of supermarkets falls short of its promises. After dedicating our time and effort throughout spring and summer to grow our own food, it would be a shame not to fully utilize the harvest.
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Using Vermicomposting To Obtain A Nutrient-Rich Fertilizer
Vermicomposting, or worm farming, is a fascinating and effective method of utilizing worms to break down organic materials into nutrient-rich fertilizer. This process involves the use of a specially designed vermicomposting bin, which creates a conducive environment for the worms to thrive and reproduce.
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How To Control Soil Pests and Insects
Organic gardeners have long struggled with soil pests and insects, as there is currently no organic chemical solution available to treat them. Wireworms, cutworms, and leatherjackets are particularly troublesome on newly cultivated land, as they can devour the roots of almost any plant.
How To Grow And Maintain A Drought-Resistant Garden
If you look at a map of North America, you’ll notice that there are many areas with low average rainfall, mostly in the western and southern states (as well as in many other parts of the world).
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A Few Ways To Practice Climate Farming
If you are no stranger to gardening and homesteading, you already know that climate farming is a cutting-edge growing practice that uniquely combines permaculture, proven tenets of regenerative agriculture, and syntropic agroforestry.
Tips For Planting Edible Windbreaks
The North Dakota wind howled from the southeast. The driving snow hit me like a sandblaster as I trudged outside to check on the chickens in their coop. I was at the mercy of Mother Nature’s wrath, barely able to see past the tip of my nose.
How To Maintain Healthy Soil With Crop Rotation
One important rule of organic gardening states that you should rotate plant families as much as possible from one season to the next, so that related crops are not planted in the same location more than every three years or so.
The Best Staple Crops To Grow For Food Independence
To depend on your garden to feed your family, you must plant staple crops, the foods that are essential to human survival. The ideal staple crops for increasing food self-sufficiency should be easy to harvest and store, provide high yields, and be calorie-dense to give you the food energy from carbohydrates that you require each day.
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