In the ideal world, when you plant your bean seeds and tomato seedlings as you start your garden, the soil is so healthy that pests want nothing to do with your crops. But the fact is, despite your best efforts, pests will show up. Which ones and how many will depend on such things as [...]
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Having experimented with vegetable gardening the past several years, there are perhaps a couple dozen organic vegetable gardening tips I could throw out there to help you get your own successful garden started. But when it comes down to it, after you’ve learned the basics of growing your own food, there are three vital principles [...]
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Growing a successful organic garden is a little like searching for natural ways to cure mood swings: you know there are several options, but figuring out the best ones, and then the one that works for you, takes time. Once you find “the way”, though, you realize your time was a good investment. I’ve been [...]
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Okay, so I don’t exactly reveal every single personal detail of my life in this episode. But I do begin a new segment for the Weird Is Great podcast entitled, “The Crunchy Coach Tells All.” And in the main section I explain why I live the lifestyle that I do. So, why do I live [...]
When you first set out to start your first vegetable garden, you don’t necessarily realize all the potential problems you may run into. The gardening how-to is pretty cut-and-dry in the books you read, but most authors don’t emphasize what mistakes could mean the difference between having a garden forever and giving up after the [...]
This post is a part gnowflins.com Simple Lives Thursday. When you first endeavor to learn how to start a vegetable garden, excitement is the reigning emotion as you flip through your first book on gardening. Joy is the next one, sprouting up with the germination of your first seeds. Gardening burnout is the last thing [...]
In the overall scheme of things, a plan for healthy living must include not only good care of yourself, but of the environment as well. Creating a backyard wildlife habitat can actually help enrich your life, as well as that of various other animals. Humans don’t live in a vacuum, but in conjunction with many [...]
As you begin learning how to start a vegetable garden, you eventually begin to realize that squash vine borers are the bane of the squash gardener’s existence. In most of the U.S. they can decimate a winter squash plant in just a few days. In the Southern part of the States, they attack not only [...]
