Category: Vegetables
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How To Reduce The Cost Of Raising Your Own Food In Your Garden Or Homestead
The idea of homesteading or home farming has become very popular in the past few years. People that have never experienced farm life and may have been raised in the city are purchasing plots of land, building their own houses and trying to become self sufficient. The question is not only if you can obtain…
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How To Prepare And Store Your Zucchini Harvest
If you are like most people that garden there is a time in the middle of the summer where you have way too much zucchini to eat on a daily basis. This is probably why most people like to harvest them small so they can eat more of them. Unfortunately the word on Canning Zucchini…
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How To Start Your Second Harvest Plants In Mid Summer
If you are lucky enough to have a relatively long growing season you might have enough time to grow two or three different crops of vegetables in your garden if you plan correctly. Most of your cool weather plants will do well in both spring and fall but where spring is the start of the…
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How To Store Food Long Term Without Refrigeration
Whether you have a small garden or a farm or maybe you live in a city or suburb there are advantages to building a pantry of foods that can last a long time without refrigeration. The fact that the food is stored without refrigeration is important because you don’t want to be worrying about a…
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How To Compost The Safe Way For Your Vegetable Garden
If you are new to gardening composting might be a method you use to introduce organic material and nutrients into your soil but before you begin you should understand that there can be some problems associated with collecting and processing your own compost. Processing compost for flower beds is really not as much of a…