Category Archives: Simply Vegetable Gardening

Perennial Vegetables that Come Back Every Year

Every year, millions and probably billions of people around the world go out and build a vegetable garden. They dig. They prepare the soil. They plant seeds and work diligently throughout the summer to get a vegetable crop. In recent years, there has been a movement called permaculture where people take an ideology started byContinue reading “Perennial Vegetables that Come Back Every Year”

Get a Victory by Growing a Garden

Back during World War II, both the United States and Great Britain began what they called Victory Gardens. Great Britain had started the idea when the Axis powers began their quest to take over Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s. As the Nazis rolled over their neighboring countries and swallowed up agricultural landContinue reading “Get a Victory by Growing a Garden”

Earliest Seed Starting for Home Garden

Onions The first item on my list is onions. We use a lot of onions at our house so I planted them earlier this week. We could buy onions as plants or sets, and we have done this many times in the past. However, this year, I have chosen to plant my onions as seeds.Continue reading “Earliest Seed Starting for Home Garden”

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.

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”