Category: Vegetables
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How To – Dried Beans As A Long Term Storage Food Source
Long Term Food Storage is important for many reasons including emergency food sources and even for saving money but how long can dried beans really be saved? Adzuki, Black, Black-eyed, Black Turtle, Garbanzo, Great Northern, Kidney, Lentils, Lima, Mung, Navy, Pink, Pinto, Small Red, Soy, and Split-pea can all be dried and stored. A recent…
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How To – Harvesting Lettuce Seeds For Next Years Garden
When you plant lettuce in your garden unless you have a huge family or only plant a few seeds you are likely to have a few plants that start to get past their useability stage before you can pick them. You shouldn’t look at this as a bad thing because those plants will grow seeds…
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How To – Don’t Waste Your Garden Weeds Use Them For Mulch
Weeds are every gardeners evil foe but did you know that you can use weeds to kill weeds? Like any plant material weeds can be used as a mulch material around the base of your plants. Large plants like tomatoes can benefit from mulch as can cucumbers, squash and any plant where the fruit is…
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Millions Of More Homes Turn To Gardening To Lower Their Food Budget
A recent survey of Gardening Trends shows that 43 million homes are now using vegetable and fruit gardening as a way to supplement and offset the costs of feeding their families. This number is up from 36 million homes in 2009. The National Gardening Association says spending on food gardening including growing vegetables, fruit trees,…
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How To – Summer Fruit Tree Care & Watering Will Improve Your Harvest
Fruit Trees require care throughout the year in order to provide a great harvest in the fall or summer months. In addition to pruning back any damaged branches and protecting your trees from pests it is important to promote a healthy root system by watering and feeding during the dry season. Most trees can survive…