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How to Plant and Grow Beets

Beets harvested from growing in the garden

Beets are an excellent vegetable to add to your spring garden. They are really easy to grow and you can eat both the roots and the greens. If you’re thinking about planting beets this year and want to know the best tips to get a good harvest, then continue reading for my tips on how to grow beets in your edible garden. How to Grow Beets Plant Beets from Seeds You can plant beets from seeds … [Read more...]


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The 8 Fastest Growing Vegetables for Your Garden

 We are getting close to gardening season, so buy your seeds and let's get started. Here are the eight fastest vegetables to grow in your garden.  You can also plant in containers on your patio, in long planters on your apartment balcony or you can even tuck in some vegetables among your flower and shrubbery beds.  The 8 Fastest Growing Vegetables for Your Garden Getting … [Read more...]

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How to Grow Peas in the Garden or in Containers

Peas are one of the easier vegetables to grow in your spring garden. Since peas are quite often the first vegetable ready for harvest, this delicious veggie gives you a chance of hope that summer is near. Today I’m going to show you how to grow peas so that you can enjoy this crisp, fresh veggie all garden season long. And actually, all winter long too! We've got an article that explains the … [Read more...]

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How Big of a Container Does a Pepper Plant Really Need?

Ever wondered how big of container a pepper plant really needs? I was shocked!     We enjoy growing peppers in our greenhouse. We plant some in the ground but we also grow peppers in containers. If you're wondering how big of a container a pepper plant really needs, this article will interest you.  Peppers take a notoriously long time to germinate - as in, it … [Read more...]


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Planning Your Food Garden

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This is the perfect time of year to finalize plans for the gardens. Planning a vegetable garden is an important part of being able to ensure having enough food in the cold room for the winter. This planning is just one of the things I love about Winter. There's very little work to be done outside and no one minds if we get up late and linger over coffee.     Garden … [Read more...]

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How to Grow Zucchini

A little Zucchini goes a long way! You only need to plant a few zucchinis in your garden to enjoy a large harvest. They just keep on setting more and more zucchinis. Here is how to grow zucchini.     Zucchini is a heat loving plant - I don't put my Zucchini plants into the garden until the weather warms up. Usually this means, they don't put in the Garden until early June … [Read more...]


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The 5 Easiest Vegetables to Grow

Vegetable gardening is supposed to be fun, right? It should be. It is so tempting to plant a huge garden with dreams of preserving most of it and having fresh vegetables all season long. It’s so wonderful to see all those rows full of food.   Dreaming of gardening always starts in the winter for us. This is our view right now and I am loving all the snow. I’m looking over seed … [Read more...]


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Put Your Chickens to Work for You!

Chickens cleaning up a garden bed after harvest.

Did you know that bored chickens are unhealthy chickens? Bored chickens fight with one another, pull feathers out and pick pick pick at each other. Usually the answer to this is to just let them out of the coop and they will run around chasing and eating bugs. There other ways to keep your chickens from boredom and that is to put your chickens to work for … [Read more...]


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How To Get Started on the Path to Providing for Your Family

Have you been used to buying your groceries at the supermarkets? Never raised animals or had a garden? Are you  trying to figure out how to get started on the path to providing for your family? Have you thought about starting a homestead? It can certainly feel overwhelming just to get started. So think about getting started, but doing it on a small … [Read more...]


Filed Under: How To, How to Get Started, Raising Chickens, Raising Meat Birds, Raising PigsTagged: chickens, chicks, Grow Vegetables, hens, How To:, laying hens, Potatoes, Raising Meat Birds, self sufficiency

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