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 [...]
Living green
Today’s post is part of The Healthy Home Economist’s blog carnival. Watch out when you learn how to start an organic vegetable garden – next thing you know, you will be building your own solar panels and drooling over wood stoves in Lehman’s catalog . Well, maybe not, but that little taste of self-sufficiency might [...]
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 [...]
One of the best ways to save money is to live in a tiny house. Or, at least live in a much smaller house than the ridiculous monsters being constructed these days for two or three people! We currently live in a two-story house which square footage is around 2159 square feet. It has three [...]
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 [...]
The problem with learning how to start a vegetable garden is that most of the books make it sound worse than getting a root canal. So you begin the process – if you begin at all – with fear and trepidation, just knowing that if you make one slip all your hard work will go [...]
Today’s post is a part of the Simple Lives Thursdays blog hop at gnowfglins.com. There are a thousand and one tips on ways to save money, but how to be frugal – really frugal, consistently – in today’s world? Today’s world, where you can’t walk two blocks in a city without being bombarded by some [...]
Gardening reduces stress of all kinds. It calms, relaxes and relieves anxiety, which could even make it a good anger management tool. But a few things keep people from starting up a garden. One is bed preparation. I used to think that building a raised garden bed was, by default, expensive. And I am more [...]
Growing bell peppers is an endeavor everyone who is physically able should try. Why? It is, in short, a backyard superfood. In the discussion of superfoods, we often overlook common garden vegetables in favor of exotic fruits. While such fruits are arguably super in terms of quantity of antioxidants and other nutrients, they are not [...]