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Best ways of growing vegetables in containers

There is nothing like eating a tomato that you have grown yourself. The same eating pleasure goes for carrots, cabbages and just about any vegetable that you can name.   You do not need a large...

24 comments    life how to home
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Dwarf Fruit Trees in the Home Orchard

When planning your kitchen garden consider adding a couple of dwarf fruit trees. These small trees grow very well in small, urban areas, and will produce alot of full size, fruit. Concerns with the food supply, its effect on the environment, and buying locally, it seems natural to grow your own.

3 comments    how to food gardening
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Avoid Buying the EarthBox Garden Kit until you read this

Yes, I agree the Earthbox is a GREAT system for growing all sorts of plants (we own 3 of them) – but there’s a BIG problem that way too many people are making when their considering buying this...

0 comments    grow box growing food grow food
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Getting the Most Out of Your Garden with Succession Planting

I want to get the most out of my garden each year. I have a limited amount of space and have to plan carefully in order to harvest the most. Succession planting allows me to maximize my garden and harvest...

0 comments    gardening vegetables planting
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On the Green Path: Get Outside and Play!

There's so much interest in this topic, and so many types of advice, it can be overwhelming! I've divided this hub into 5 parts, so you can read them one at a time or choose the one that's most important to...

0 comments    green living going green
Lettuce, snap peas, carrots, onions that my family planted, harvested and ate.64

Gardening With Young Children

Gardening with your kids can be both challenging and rewarding. Here are a few tips from my own experience to make it a fun experience for both you and your child. 1: Use organic or chemical free seeds....

0 comments    gardening organic gardening
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Gaia's Garden- a Review

Toby Hemenway’s newly revised book Gaia’s Garden- A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture is not your average gardening guide. It will help you grow healthy vegetables, however, the step-by-step manual...

4 comments    home food design
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How to Plan and Tend a Survival Garden

Gardening tips from a fellow who has had successes, failures, food and no food from gardens over more than fifty years of growing food in the city and in the country; my opinions on what works and what doesn't.

2 comments    gardening garden survival
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How to save all your Fresh Grown Zucchini

It is not actually overloaded yet, but on a daily basis now I go out to my little patch of earth to see what else is happening out there ---- as if a fairy waved a magic wand or they were vegetable rabbits or...

8 comments    advice how to growing food
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How To Grow 10 Healthy Salad Greens!

First glance at that title I can hear the groans from far and wide “…not another article on how healthy greens are ” However it needs to be said over and over again, needs to be shouted from the roof...

57 comments    how to food vitamin
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