How To Plant Potted Ginger | Grow Your Own Challenge 2016
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 […]
Series: Grow Your Own Challenge
How To Make Maple Syrup in Your Own Backyard
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
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 […]
How Many Tomatoes Should I Plant? | 2016 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
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
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 […]
Pussy Willow Arrangement | Grow Your Own Challenge 2016
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?
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
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 […]
Starting a Bee Hive
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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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 […]
Visit Local Markets To Augment Your Gardens
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 […]