Category Archives: Growing

The Gardening Season is Winding Down

I have a recipe for green tomato enchilada sauce that I will can and use when I make chicken enchiladas during the winter season. Here’s the recipe I will be using.

Seven Ways We are Saving Money and Time in the Garden

My husband and I are streamlining our gardening process with garden beds and saving money where we can.

Extending Your Fall Harvest Beyond the First Frost

Extending your garden beyond the normal autumn season is much like extending beyond the normal spring season except you are protecting bigger plants.

Beating the Heat in the Garden

The electrical grid has been pushed to its limits during the month of July. We have also been doing the best we can to beat the heat by avoiding excessive exposure to the extreme weather. We have been careful to ensure that our chickens and cats have had plenty of water and are able toContinue reading “Beating the Heat in the Garden”

Is Your Location too Small to Grow a Vegetable Garden?

You don’t need vast acreage to feed your families. Just yesterday I was remembering the first time I came through this part of Missouri in 1979. I came through at the end of July and I remember the numerous gardens I saw in backyards all throughout the state. That was what made me fall inContinue reading “Is Your Location too Small to Grow a Vegetable Garden?”

Are You Growing A Survival Garden?

It’s easy to place blame on someone or something else in regard to the lack of food security in our world. We could blame the government. We can the disease that had us locked up for two years. We can blame the war in Europe. We can blame our president or our economic system. WeContinue reading “Are You Growing A Survival Garden?”

Simply Vegetable Gardening, One Solution to Food Shortages

For the entire month of June, I am sharing my books in the first annual Cygnet Brown Book Club Month! All throughout the month, I will be featuring not one, but all of the books that I have written to date. The gardening-related books I am writing here on The Perpetual Homesteader. The first gardeningContinue reading “Simply Vegetable Gardening, One Solution to Food Shortages”

New Life on the Farm

I love spring. Now that the frosts are done and the rain has subsided for a few days, it’s time to get the garden going in full swing. Since the frosts look like they are done for the season and the rain has turned off, for now, we’ve been hustling to get many more ofContinue reading “New Life on the Farm”