This year I have been doing what I can to get as much from a small garden space as possible. To tell you the truth, the reason is we are getting older and don’t have as much energy as we used to even just a few years ago. The old body doesn’t recover as fastContinue reading “Beginning the Fall Garden Indoors Now”
Category Archives: The Four Seasons Vegetable Garden
Enjoy Fresh Green Beans this Week
A year’s worth of snap green beans from two 4×8 beds. Excess canned last year; now growing enough for fresh consumption and to share at the farmers’ market. Recipes for green beans and new potatoes, stir-fried garlic green beans, and rice cooking technique. Author of several vegetable gardening books available on Amazon.
My Garden Supermarket
The author shares a bountiful harvest from their garden, opting to use fresh produce instead of canning or freezing. They enjoy a variety of homegrown vegetables and plan to use or preserve them efficiently. The post also includes information about the author’s books on gardening. They highlight the benefits of fresh, homegrown vegetables and provide resources for starting a vegetable garden.
Does Gardening Really Help Your Emotional Health?
A few days ago, someone asked me why I thought everyone was so angry and unhinged all the time and I said that I thought it was because they weren’t spending enough time getting their hands dirty. There’s science behind the idea of the emotional benefits of gardening. Scientists have long wondered whether humans boastContinue reading “Does Gardening Really Help Your Emotional Health?”
Rambling in the Garden
The garden has been planted with potatoes, onions, lettuce, and brassicas, using fabric bags and direct ground planting. Challenges with chickens digging and mulching are managed with a fence and timed roaming. The author connects gardening with spiritual thoughts, tying the season’s renewal to religious holidays. Several gardening books are also promoted.
February’s Gardening Schedule
Can you believe that February is over half over? Many people in the Northern Hemisphere are looking out at the winter weather hoping for an early spring. Others, like me, have already started the 2024 gardening season. What We’ve Done So Far Here at our place, the onions and the herbs that I planted areContinue reading “February’s Gardening Schedule”
We Were All Preppers
The post discusses the commercialization of the prepping movement and how people used to be more self-sufficient. The author describes their current efforts in gardening, foraging, hunting, raising animals, and learning various skills. Additionally, they have written books on vegetable gardening and other relevant topics to help others learn these skills.
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”
Making Garlic Powder
Garlic powder is used in many different cuisines. I use it in many dishes like spaghetti, pizza, goulash, soups, and stews as well as garlic toast to name a few. Because I had the garlic and often use garlic powder, I decided to make my own.
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.
The Perpetual Homesteader 