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Preserve your Harvest… in the Freezer

If your garden is producing quite you’ve got time to preserve by canning or dehydrating, freezing is another great option. Nearly everything from the garden is often frozen, with a couple of exceptions like potatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers. Freezing fruits, veggies and herbs is quick and straightforward, doesn’t require any special equipment, and preserves everything […]

How to Grow Melons

Few things say “summer” sort of a juicy slice of melon. Watermelons, cantaloupes, and other melons are an excellent addition to the garden. With a touch preparation now, you’ll be enjoying a sweet harvest by July! Watermelon on vine Selecting and Starting Your Seeds Melons fall under two different categories: watermelons (members of the genus […]

Tips on Cutting Sunflowers for Bouquets

Sunflowers are great for summertime bouquets but to urge the foremost out of your cut flowers, you ought to follow a couple of simple steps. When sunflowers are cut using the subsequent steps, blooms can last up to 10 days indoors! Step 1 – Select the simplest Flowers to chop  The best sunflowers to use […]

Ticks 101

Tick bites are painful and may cause serious diseases in your family and your pets. Prevention and early removal are the simplest steps to remain safe and healthy! Guard Your Yard Ticks wish to sleep in tall grass and brush and conceal in leaf litter and debris. Landscape your yard to scale backtick populations by […]

Urban Gardening Without a Yard

The new methods being developed for urban farming are great for gardeners looking to be more efficient with their use of space, but usually, this refers to maximizing space in small yards for raising veggies, chickens or maybe small livestock. These space-saving principles of urban farming don’t often translate to the requirements of the aspiring […]

How to Design a Raised Bed

Raised beds are useful for many gardening situations: they’re easier to succeed in, can reduce some pest problems, and are good for depleted or rocky soils (or driveways or patios) where regular garden beds can’t be established. A well-constructed raised bed can bring you years of gardening pleasure. able to plan your raised beds? It’s […]

Getting Ready for Tomato Canning

Water bath canning may be a good way to preserve all of the tomatoes your garden has been producing. Prepare yourself for canning day by selecting the simplest varieties and recipes for your year-round tomato needs. The Best Canning Tomatoes The process of canning tomatoes actually started once you selected your tomato seeds for planting […]

Protecting Your Fruit Trees from Frost Damage

During the darkest days of winter, while your orchard is dormant, there’s little risk of frost damage to your trees. the most important danger comes within the spring when the tree starts to interrupt dormancy. The young leaf buds and shoot growth are often damaged by extreme cold, and a late frost or snowstorm can […]

Grow a Pomegranate Tree!

Once considered a fruit for royalty, the pomegranate may be a delicious addition to your backyard orchard or edible landscaping. Its beautiful, showy, red-orange flowers become decorative fruit within the fall, crammed with juicy arils for you to enjoy all year long! Getting ready to plant Pomegranates are best grown from cuttings to make sure […]

Preserving Citrus with Salt and Sugar

There is nothing just like the smell and taste of fresh citrus! But what to try to if you’ve got an overabundance of lemons or oranges? Preserve sugar or salt! The preserving process concentrates the flavor and also mellows out the tartness. you’ll use any sort of citrus, but the Meyer lemon may be a […]

Worms In Your Apples?

It is such a satisfying experience to succeed in up into a fruit tree and pluck a shiny apple from a branch. But if you’re taking an enormous, juicy bite and see that the remaining apple in your hand has brown yuck and half a worm inside — and you only swallowed — it’s going […]

Landscaping with Edible Plants

Our grandparents or great grandparents didn’t need to believe what to plant in their landscape, it just made sense to plant something that you simply can eat. With the shift of populations to urban areas, people stopped using edible plants in their landscape and easily visited their local marketplace for produce. The big, perfectly landscaped […]

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