As part of our ongoing effort to never buy lettuce from the store again. We are really making an effort to have salad …
Vegetables
Growing Snow Peas in your backyard garden
Growing snow peas is an easy process that starts early in the spring and can even be done in the fall. This growing …
How To Avoid Corn Cross Pollination
I often get questions about planting corn and corn cross-pollination. I'd always been taught that you had to be careful …
Growing Pumpkins in your home garden
Growing Pumpkins in your home garden is a fun and easy crop to grow. But watch out, it takes a lot of …
Saving Lettuce Seeds From Your Own Garden
Saving lettuce seeds is a great place to start learning how to save your own seeds. Saving seeds can be …
Tips for Storing Potatoes all Winter Long
Storing potatoes properly is an important part of our gardening. We grow a lot of potatoes (some years over 250 pounds) …
Planting Garlic in the Fall in your backyard garden
Early to mid-fall is the perfect time for planting garlic. Fall planted garlic always does better than garlic planted in …
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Curing potatoes before winter storage
Curing potatoes before winter storage is an important process that will help assure longer storing times for your potato …
Growing Peas in the Fall
Depending on where you live, growing peas in the fall can be a little tricky. This fall pea growing guide will …
Building and Using a Window Well Root Cellar
A Window Well Root Cellar is turning out to be a pretty effective way to store out potatoes over the winter. Why did I …
Preserving Your Harvest – Freezing Broccoli
Broccoli is a garden favorite around our place. Here in Utah, it is a little hard to grow. Our springs are short and we …
Growing your own Popcorn
Growing your own popcorn is a fairly simple process. A decent-sized harvest of 5 or 6 quarts of popcorn really …


















