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Series: Grow Your Own Challenge

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How To Plant Potted Ginger | Grow Your Own Challenge 2016

February 22, 2016 Chris 1
This entry is part 1 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

How to Plant Potted Ginger In this post, I am going to show you how to plant potted ginger. This is part of the series […]

How To Make Maple Syrup in Your Own Backyard

March 5, 2016 Chris 3
This entry is part 2 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

How To Make Maple Syrup Hi! Welcome to my crazy summer project. This year, my family is trying to grow the vast majority of our […]

Turning Sap into Syrup | DIY Maple Syrup

March 9, 2016 Chris 1
This entry is part 3 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Turning Sap into Syrup. Making Homemade DIY Maple Syrup. If you are following along in our series “2016 Grow Your Own Challenge,” you know we […]

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How Many Tomatoes Should I Plant? | 2016 Grow Your Own Challenge

March 11, 2016 Chris 2
This entry is part 4 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

How Many Tomatoes Should I plant? That answer is going to change based on how many red sauces your family eats. I am going to […]

Maple Syrup Making Review

March 17, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 5 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Maple Syrup Making Review Well, in only about two weeks we went from the start of the sap to our trees budding. I would guess […]

Starting Seeds for Straw Bale Garden | 2016 Grow your Own Challenge

March 17, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 6 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Starting Seeds for Straw Bale Garden. Part of the 2016 Grow Your Own Challenge This post is part of the 2016 Grow Your Own Challenge […]

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Pussy Willow Arrangement | Grow Your Own Challenge 2016

March 17, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 7 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Making a Pussy Willow Arrangement This post is part of the 2016 Grow Your Own Challenge. Besides growing most of our produce for the year, […]

Do You Know These 9 Tips For Safely Moving Your Plants Outside?

April 6, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 8 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Do these 9 tips for safely moving your plants outside to help your plants thrive.  Transitioning plants indoors and outdoors is a very important part […]

An Introduction to the Grow Your Own Challenge 2016

April 13, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 9 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

An Introduction to the Grow Your Own Challenge 2016 The real reason we are growing all of our own produce for the year.  Last weekend […]

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Starting a Bee Hive

May 9, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 10 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Starting a Bee Hive 2016 is a year of growing what we can produce on our home and harvest in our local suburban area. You can […]

Harvesting Asparagus Tips

May 15, 2016 Dan Ashbach 0
This entry is part 11 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Harvesting Asparagus Tips Asparagus is a fairly hardy perennial that can produce for 20 years with proper care. Here are a few harvesting asparagus tips […]

Planning, Conditioning, and Setting Up Our Bales

August 9, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 12 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

I don’t want to get into a huge discussion on how to condition, plan and prep our bales. If you want to know how we […]

How To Build A Gourd Tunnel

August 9, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 13 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

The Gourd Tunnel is mostly just a fun project for us to try this year. I have seen images of these go absolutely crazy on […]

How To Build a Potato Tower

August 9, 2016 Chris 2
This entry is part 14 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

You may have seen our viral video with Laurie from dan330.com harvesting the potato towers from last year on YouTube.  This year, we decided to […]

How To Build a Tomato Tunnel

August 9, 2016 Chris 3
This entry is part 15 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

If you read the article about the gourd tunnel, you know basically what we did here too. The biggest difference is the width. Vines grow […]

Adding Supers to the Beehives

August 11, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 16 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Adding Supers to the Beehives This is our first season of beekeeping. Lots of things to learn, but we have a great mentor, Steve Olson, […]

Homemade Crab Apple Jelly – or – That Must be Jelly because Jam don’t shake like that!

August 15, 2016 Dan Ashbach 0
This entry is part 17 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Homemade Crab Apple Jelly – or – That Must be Jelly because Jam don’t Shake like that! We have a couple of crab apple trees […]

Blueberry June Growth

September 2, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 18 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Blueberry June Growth This is a follow up post on the the blueberries. Last summer we picked up blueberry pants from Monrovia, who sponsored this […]

Picking, Freezing and Jamming Strawberries

September 2, 2016 Chris 0
This entry is part 19 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Picking Strawberries: Freezing and Jamming them. We try to grow as much produce as possible out of our gardens. This spring, we started our first […]

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Visit Local Markets To Augment Your Gardens

September 6, 2016 Chris 1
This entry is part 20 of 31 in the series Grow Your Own Challenge

Visit Local Markets To Augment Your Garden While we do grow most of our produce, sometimes a deer or bugs will make sure we don’t […]

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