Extending your garden beyond the normal autumn season is much like extending beyond the normal spring season except you are protecting bigger plants.
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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”
Happy Independence Day!
Happy Independence Day! There’s nothing that says independence more than knowing I can grow my own food! According to several sources around the world, the current food shortages around the world are going to be worse next year. That’s why I feel that we need to become as food independent as possible. I am notContinue reading “Happy Independence Day!”
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”
Spring: The Season of Constant Changes
Spring is planting season, but it is also the rainy season here in the Missouri Ozarks and the temperatures are more variable than in any other area of the country. It can be dry and hot early in the day and cold and rainy by the end of that same day. It can be rainingContinue reading “Spring: The Season of Constant Changes”
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”
What Is Growing That I Didn’t Have to Plant this Year
One of the nice things about being a perpetual homesteader is that there are foods that I am now growing that I didn’t have to plant this year.
Container Gardening
Having a highly productive garden doesn’t require a lot of space, but I find gardening very satisfying no matter what the size.
Switching From a Conventional Garden to Raised Beds
We have a 40×40 foot garden that has been in a conventional row system for the past two years, but this year, we plan to put in some smaller raised beds and will eventually replace the conventional garden with raised beds in the same area.
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