Successful Cultivation….

On Weeding your garden The art of successfully cultivating your garden plot could fill tomes! Today I plan to introduce you to one method of…

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No-Till Didn’t Work…Sort of!

Why no till didn’t work for us in our gardens and this is how we fixed it! No till is not a panacea and context…

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Deep thoughts on deep mulch?

Ok so nothing too deep here thought wise, but I was slinging some hay and straw today… mulching big time!  We’re still about a month…

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Ruth Stout Garden Bed

Creating Ruth Stout style garden bed

Fast, Easy, Low Labor Garden Bed, Inspired by Ruth Stout I wrote previously in my post on deep mulch about Ruth Stout, and her gardening…

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Forest Gardens

I stumbled on this fine example of what a forest type garden can look like.  With a little planning and properly timed disturbance this style…

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Sheet Mulch

Sheet Mulching Our Front Yard!

I wrote a while back about our battle with thistles on the homestead.  One of my strategies for dealing with them on a small scale…

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Sheet Mulch

Homestead Happenings: December 2015

Homestead Update Dec 2015 Well here we go… knee deep in the hustle and bustle of the Season! Not much time for games, unless you…

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Garden Update Video July 2015

I’m going to try something new today, a bit of en experiment.  I shot about six minutes of video in the garden with my phone yesterday and…

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Growing rhubarb

Homestead Heros, Plants of Promise: Rhubarb

Rhubarb Aside from asparagus, rhubarb is probably one of the most easily recognizable perennials on the homestead.  This hardy garden standout is easily propagated, and…

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Sheet Mulch: Garden Fertility by the Numbers

Sheet mulch is a great way to get a new garden bed started or to rehab an old weedy bed.  I created this simple infographic…

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