As you gather food scraps for your compost pile, you may wonder if orange peels are safe. A compost pile is a must-have for gardeners and those wanting to decrease food waste. It’s easy to compost kitchen scraps like banana peels, veggie scraps, and orange peels – but are orange peels good for compost? In…
Use the best potato fertilizer to increase your yield and have the healthiest potato plants! Potatoes are one of the most important root vegetables we grow on our homestead. We want a large harvest, which means using the right fertilizer for potatoes to boost our production. Truth be told, for years, I failed to use…
Before planting and harvesting potatoes, make sure you know how long do potatoes take to grow! Growing potatoes is tricky when it comes to harvest time because they grow underground. You can’t see what you get until you pull out the plant, so you may ask yourself – how long do potatoes take to grow…
Make sure you grab some free seed catalogs before they run out for the gardening season! In the winter, when gardening isn’t an option, it’s my favorite time to dream about the upcoming gardening season. I sort through my favorite free seed catalogs and imagine all the plants I want to grow that year. I…
If you want to grow big cabbage heads, you need to make sure you use the best fertilizer for cabbage! I wasn’t always the biggest fan of cabbage. My parents served cabbage rolls at my graduation party, and I was furious, but as I grew older, cabbage is one of my favorite veggies, and my…
Nothing is more disappointing than spending hours prepping and starting your seeds only to find out your seeds don’t germinate. What happened? Now what? Every spring, we start seeds again, and things don’t always go perfectly as we hoped. I always notice that some seeds don’t germinate, leading me to wonder what happened and where…
Feeling impatient? Try growing some of these fast growing seeds in your vegetable garden this year! Waiting for a harvest is one of the hardest parts of gardening. You spend so much time preparing your seedlings, pampering them, pulling weeds, and so much more. It feels like a harvest is forever away, unless you grow…
If the fruits on your zucchini plants are dying, you might need to try hand pollinating zucchini flowers. One of the most common problems that gardeners experience when growing zucchini is that their plants won’t produce fruits or the blossoms drop. Hand pollinating zucchini flowers is the answer to both of these issues. Zucchini plants…
Tomatoes are one of the trickiest vegetables to grow, in my opinion. To preserve enough tomato products to last my family a year, I need – AT LEAST – 52 quarts but more is ideal. I struggled for years to figure out how to grow more tomatoes for my family. Tomatoes are finicky plants, and…
Carrots are an early spring or fall plant that grows well in many gardens. I started growing carrots a few years ago, and my first attempts were dismal. I had no idea how to grow carrots, so I had to do my research. Growing root vegetables is difficult even for experienced gardeners. It can be…
