Should you soak your pea seeds before planting? This is a question I get quite often and the answer is yes! If you soak …
Vegetables
Planting Onions Using Seedlings
Planting onions using seedlings is the only way to go in my humble opinion. Let's talk about why! 3 Onion …
Cutting Seed Potatoes before Planting
Cutting Seed Potatoes before Planting is a common planting practice that will save seeds and produce more plants in your …
Learning how to grow Early Potatoes
A simple cold frame is all you need to to have early potatoes in the spring. You can plant early potatoes in mid-March …
Growing Beets in Your Backyard Garden
Beets are packed with nutrition and are easy to grow. Growing Beets can take as little as 45 days for a tender young …
Freezing Tomatoes – 4 Easy Steps
Freezing tomatoes is a fairly easy process that involves 4 steps. This article will teach you how easy and …
Growing your own Lettuce
With news of yet another lettuce-related related E-coli outbreak, all of us are wondering what we can do to protect our …
Growing Lettuce Indoors in the Winter
Growing lettuce indoors is a project I've wanted to tackle for a long time. We have a nice south-facing window in our …
Removing Popcorn Kernels from the Cobs
This weeks edition of 5 Minute Fridays is about Removing Popcorn Kernels from the Cobs. What seems like a …
Letting Volunteer Potatoes Grow in your Garden
If you let most Volunteer plants grow in your garden you don't know what you will get. But it's different with volunteer …
Ripening Green Pumpkins
Ripening Green Pumpkins is something we have to do every few years. Sometimes you just don't have enough time in …
Why Growing Kale in the fall is better
Kale is not known for its delicious taste. Instead, its claim to fame is its nutrition But did you know that kale tastes …
