These top gardening tips for beginners can be a guide on what to consider before buying any plants. If you are a beginner gardener or new to gardening, you may have already been tempted to visit your local garden center to load up with beautiful flowers, fruit trees or vegetable seedlings, right? Hold up a minute....do you know those particular plants and shrubs will thrive in your … [Read more...]
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The Fastest Way to Ripen Tomatoes Indoors
Wondering what's the fastest way to ripen tomatoes indoors? Here's how to ripen tomatoes faster! So many of us grow tomatoes. Whether we have tomatoes planted in our garden, greenhouse, or in pots on the deck, gardeners just love growing tomatoes! But what can we do for our tomatoes when a sudden frost is expected or the nights suddenly become a lot cooler? Tomatoes are heat lovers … [Read more...]
How to Maintain a Raspberry Patch – Pruning
Here's how to prune Raspberry plants - fix that overgrown neglected berry patch! How to Prune Raspberry Plants Earlier in June, I had given the raspberry patch a thorough weeding and clean up. Knowing how to prune raspberry plants is an important part of maintaining your berry bed. If you don't tidy up your patch in Spring, you will be amazed at how difficult it will be for … [Read more...]
How to Grow Peppers From Seed
Learn how to grow peppers from seed, and grow your own hot and sweet peppers in pots or the garden. Peppers are a great vegetable to grow, whether you grow sweet peppers in the garden or grow hot peppers in containers on your patio or balcony. And, peppers are easy to grow, which is a bonus. Here are some tips for starting pepper plants from seed. How to Grow Peppers from Seed You are always … [Read more...]
How To Improve Clay Soil
If you're looking for tips on how to improve clay soil, check out this guide for frustration-free ideas! Here in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, we have clay based soil in our lawn that we are always trying to amend. I had never seen heavy clay soil before we moved here. It was pretty disappointing when we quickly planted a garden after we moved in, but over time we learned how to … [Read more...]
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Hey, that post has been retired. But, there's LOTS of other great information here for you to read. Here's some of our other popular content you might enjoy: Popular Content here at Country Living in a Cariboo Valley Self Sufficiency: Want to start being more self sufficient? Here's how we started our homestead and what we spent our first year doing! Preserving Food All … [Read more...]
A Cariboo Homestead Winter
We woke up to a lot of snow this morning. It is so beautiful, I did a video of the view from our porch. You can see it here on this page. Winter is a magical time here with all of our trees covered in snow. And it's so quiet - it's just total silence outside. It's wonderful. Winter on the Homestead Our vegetable garden lies resting under the snow. Mature Spruce trees … [Read more...]
Practical Gifts for the Prepper
Planning on shopping online this week? Here's a few great gifts for preppers, foodies or the homesteading honey in your home. There's a few stocking stuffer ideas too! Practical Gifts for Preppers I'm still doing a lot of canning, but over the last couple of years we have started to dehydrate some of our food. Dehydrated packages and jars take up far … [Read more...]
10 Tips to Get the Most out of a Small Vegetable Garden
When you have a large backyard garden, you can easily plant whatever crops, vegetables or herbs you like. When your garden is small, you will need to be more creative if you want to get the most out of your small vegetable garden. Small garden spaces can still be utilized to maximize the output you can derive from them. Here are some small vegetable garden ideas that will teach you how to … [Read more...]