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How to Grow Produce in the Winter
Growing plants in the winter time can allow you to have your own vegetables earlier in the spring. Check out how you can plant during the winter and which plants you should grow over the winter...
How to build My 50 Dollar Greenhouse
First off – you really can build this thing very cheaply, but to do so you have to recycle, freecycle, and scrounge. If you just go out and buy new everything it will probably cost over $200 – still not bad all in all...
SQUASH HARVEST
Squash can be eaten raw, cooked in a variety of ways, made into soups or sweet bars. Just find a recipe book and start looking for something that suits your palate...
Compost and Fertile Soil Building
You can improve the appearance and nutritional value of your garden soil by adding amendments such as fall leaves and fresh grass clippings, by composting yard and kitchen waste, and by using castings from earth worms (called vermicompost)...
Year-Round Gardening: Our Best Plans for Greenhouses, Hoop Houses, Cold Frames and More
Here are some great resources/links for year-round gardening plans...
Studies Conclude: Urine in the Garden is a Good Green Thing
Human urine is a very high-quality fertilizer. It is so high-quality, in fact, that a single person's urine would be enough to fertilize up to one tenth of an acre of vegetables for an entire year.
How To Grow Garlic – Growing Garlic Made Easy!
Garlic is not hard to grow. Put a little thought into the location and a little time into soil preparation and acquiring seed garlic, and you’ll likely be rewarded next year with a supply of your own fresh garlic to spice up your cuisine...
Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Fall Gardening
The same tender love and care that you have given your garden throughout the spring and summer months must be shown just as equally as the plants finish producing fruits and vegetables in the fall. Here are a few tips for making the transition as fruitful and efficient as possible...
A Plan for Food Self-Sufficiency
Planning a garden in advance can help you enjoy local, homegrown food year-round! Estimate how much to grow or buy and learn how to achieve food security with these guidelines...
How to Harvest, Cure and Store 20 Storage Crops
These easy-to-store crops are best kept in a cool place, which could be a basement, an unheated bedroom or an attached garage...
Survival Gardening: miracle barley
From a prepping point of view, barley is also an important survival gardening crop. It is nearly a complete protein, having all essential amino acids in ideal proportions except lysine (which is at 73% of ideal). But at nearly 12.5% protein, barley has more lysine than rice per 100 grams of food.
5 Unusual Legumes for Survival Gardening
If you are growing food for survival, not merely for salad ingredients or recreation, you will need to have good garden sources of protein, fat, and carbohydrates. Legumes are an important source of protein and a good source of some minerals and vitamins.
Best Garden Sources of Minerals
In a worst case scenario, you can survive for a period of time if you have enough water, protein, fat, and carbohydrates, without the recommended amounts of the micronutrients: vitamins and minerals. But no one wants to be stuck with a worst case scenario...
Tips on Composting from Will Bakx of Sonoma Compost
On Thursday at the National Heirloom Exposition, Will Bakx, soil scientist and operations manager of Sonoma Compost, gave a rapid fire lecture on the nitty gritty details of composting. Here's some of his useful tips...
How Far Will Your Survival Garden Get You? (The Truth Is, NOT Far At All)
The important part, in my opinion, is that Steve states even his vast garden only supplies about half of the calories that only he and his wife consume year around...
Seven Reasons Why Seeds Fail To Grow
Proper planning and a watchful eye can allow your seeds a great chance of developing into a beautiful and delicious garden to enjoy all year round. Read further to discover the possible reasons seeds fail to germinate...
Emergency Garden Foods - List of Foods To Grow
Growing your own emergency garden foods is nutritious, self sustaining, and also budget-smart when preparing and stocking food for emergencies and any possible food shortage. If you have the means to grow a survival garden, it can greatly improve your self sustainability.
Survival Gardening: frost tolerant Brassica crops
There are many crops that can survive a light frost, or a hard frost, or even survive through the winter (over-wintering). But in this post, I’m considering different types of Brassicas. The Brassicaceae plant family includes all the vegetables commonly called cruciferous...
It’s Time For Your Fall Garden
Broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and cauliflower are good places to start. All of them are good fall and even winter producers. Depending on your region, you can grow these into the depths of winter.
Orchards at Remote Locations – How To Keep Them Watered!
Anyhow, let’s say you have a nice 20 acre plot with a gentle slope. Being the clever prepper that you are, you built your storage shed towards the top of the slope, and your orchard is towards the bottom of the slope...
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