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How to Plant Garlic Cloves – Growing Garlic Part 1

By Annie

Learn how to plant garlic cloves

Here are our best tips for how to plant garlic cloves in your vegetable garden! Garlic is one of the easiest vegetables to grow in your garden or in containers. And it is wonderful to use in all kinds of cooking recipes, plus it's also very healthy for us.  Garlic doesn't take up much room at all so you can either plant a bed of garlic cloves in a corner of your garden or tuck a dozen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Garlic, Grow Vegetables

Growing Garlic – Part 3 How to Harvest and Cure Garlic

By Annie

hanging garlic is drying to cure

Here's the third part of our Growing Garlic series. Part 1 is an overview of growing Garlic. Part 2 covers harvesting the garlic scapes - which we turn into Pickled Garlic Scapes. Now we're moving on to how to harvest and cure Garlic. Your Garlic has now been growing all spring and summer. You've removed the Garlic Scape that is on each plant. Right about now, you are probably quite curious … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Garlic, Grow Vegetables

Best Garlic Cloves for Planting – Growing Garlic – Part 4

By Annie

best garlic cloves for planting lay on a paper bag

How to choose the best garlic cloves for planting - just follow these tips! Here's the fourth (and last) installment in the How to Plant Garlic series and this part focuses on how to choose the best garlic cloves for planting. The first article can be found here; Part 2 here; Part 3 here. Here in Canada, we plant garlic (Allium sativum) in the Fall before the ground freezes. This allows the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Garlic, Grow Vegetables

How to Make Pickled Garlic Scapes

By Annie

Pickled Garlic Scapes in Canning Jars on wood counter

In this second installment on Growing Garlic, I'm going to share a fantastic Pickled Garlic Scapes recipe. In the first post, I gave an overview about the process involved with growing Garlic. Garlic is one of the easiest garden vegetables to grow! Here in the Cariboo, the Garlic Scapes come on hot and heavy in early summer around July. Since we have almost 300 garlic plants in the garden, we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Canning, Garlic, Garlic (4 Part Series), Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: Canning, Garlic, Grow Vegetables, preserving, Tattler

Make A Personalized Seed Starting Schedule

By Annie

At this time of year, my mind starts to fixate on seeds for the upcoming garden. Not that I can do anything about it; it is way too early for me to get any seedlings started indoors. I do, however, check my seed starting schedule to see when I can get those first seeds started.     Sometimes I will feed my urge and start some perennial flower seeds and … [Read more...]

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How to Build a Greenhouse For Under $200

By Annie

home made small greenhouse

Want to find out how to build a greenhouse cheap? This guide is full of great tips for constructing your own greenhouse on a budget! A garden greenhouse is a great way to extend your growing season. You could even possibly grow vegetables year-round if you ensure your little greenhouse is heated through the cold months. Since we live in a fairly cold climate, we NEED to grow tomatoes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Greenhouse, Grow Your Own Vegetables Tagged With: EBooks, greenhouse, Grow Vegetables

Canning Homemade Sauerkraut

By Annie

How to can Sauerkraut jars on a shelf

Ever wondered how to can sauerkraut so you can enjoy it all winter long? You can easily ferment and can your own sauerkraut in the comfort of your own kitchen! Recently I wrote about our Cabbage harvest and using some of it to make Sauerkraut. Water bath canning Sauerkraut is pretty easy; a beginning canner can preserve cabbage with confidence. What is Sauerkraut? Hailing from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Canning, Food, Grow Your Own Vegetables, How To Tagged With: Grow Vegetables, preserving, Sauerkraut, vegetables

Baking Your Halloween Pumpkin!

By Annie

What do you do with your Halloween pumpkin once the day passes? Some people toss them into their compost pile, others simply throw them in the garbage can. But why not think about baking your Halloween pumpkin?       Some communities have a Pumpkin road, some long road out in the outskirts where people bring all their Pumpkins to dot the sides of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Recipes Tagged With: Grow Vegetables

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

By Annie

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 Pigs Tagged With: chickens, chicks, Grow Vegetables, hens, How To:, laying hens, Potatoes, Raising Meat Birds, self sufficiency

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