How LED Growing Lights Make Indoor Gardening A Breeze
It is best to have a growing system in your greenhouse or home which is versatile; easy to arrange and maneuver around, as this is important when you are involved with indoor growing. Typically, the LED growing lights are specially designed to perform exactly how you want them to ensure that your gardening is a [...]
Preparing Your Garden For Winter
Many people tend to think that once the first frost arrives, they won’t have to worry about the garden until the next spring. No more pulling weeds, hoeing, digging, pruning, watering or raking. The truth is, the idea that the gardening is over once you pull that last carrot or snip that last rose, is [...]
Winter Vegetable Gardening – Harvest Year Round
Posted in: Homesteading/Self-Sufficiency Articles Tags: greenhouse, winter gardening, winter vegetables
Let’s say that winter is approaching and you’re sad at the prospect of no fresh vegetables on the table. Don’t be sad – be happy that you have an opportunity to be a vegetable gardener all year long. With the simple addition of clear coverings, you can coax any number of vegetables into providing you [...]
Ways to Preserve and Use Garden Sage
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I can feel Fall in the air, so I’ve been trimming back the herbs and harvesting their goodness before they die back for the winter. The last couple of days I’ve been working on the sage. I have tons of it. I don’t want any of it to go to waste, so here are some [...]
How to Use Your Dehydrator to Preserve Herbs
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Preserving your herbs by drying them in a dehydrator is a great way to have fresh herbs to cook with throughout the year. It is also an economical way to use herbs– growing your own is much cheaper than paying grocery store prices. To prepare your herbs for dehydration you will need to first rinse [...]