Planting flowers in your vegetable garden is a great way to reduce pests and increase biodiversity. Everyone loves pretty flowers throughout their garden beds, but you might not know that there are some good reasons for planting flowers with vegetables. Once you learn all of the benefits, you’ll always want flowers to plant with vegetables….
Planning and picking the right fruit trees for a homestead orchard is a great way to grow more food with less work! Our family has a simple yet complex goal for our homestead – we want to grow as much food for our family as possible. That tends to be the goal for most homesteaders,…
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…
Are you excited to start growing green beans in your garden this year? Green beans are my favorite summer crop. I remember being young, and my parents had a huge garden with rows of beans. My mother would take me outside with her, and I picked beans alongside her for hours. Growing green beans came…
Are you wondering what veggies are good for beginner gardeners? When you first start gardening, you might wonder what vegetables are the easiest to grow. In my first year, I assumed everything was easy. Soon, I realized that I was wrong. Many plants have different requirements that I wasn’t ready or prepared to give to…
