Dehydrator Recipes for Storing Food
Dehydration is the best way to store food for the long-term. We scoured our favorite homesteading sites to find the best recipes for the foods you’re most likely to want to preserve.
Dehydration is the best way to store food for the long-term. We scoured our favorite homesteading sites to find the best recipes for the foods you’re most likely to want to preserve.
When it comes to growing beans, there are many different types of beans that can be grown in your garden or even inside the house in a container. All kinds of beans are relatively easy to grow and can be grown with limited space as well. Hopefully, this guide for how and when to plant green beans will help you out this growing season.
The relentless march forward of ‘progress’ damages our 56 species of butterfly and 2,500 species of moths who are sensitive to change – but your garden can help them find food and shelter.
Tomato Leaf Curl Virus also known as leaf roll affects more than just tomato plants but a whole host of plants. This virus plant disease can be quite deadly for plants and halt the production of fruit altogether – especially if the plants get infected when they are young.
Abundant and healthy populations of pollinators can improve fruit set and quality, and increase fruit size. In farming situations this increases production per acre. In the wild, biodiversity increases and wildlife food sources increase. A guide for farmers, land managers, and gardeners. Guide des agriculteurs, des gestionnaires de terres et des jardiniers.
Tomato blight refers to a family of pathogens, caused by fungus which spreads through tomato foliage, often during wet weather.
Olive Oil has been produced for thousands of years. Originally, olive oil was used as lampante or lamp oil. Production was largely centralized to the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, and North African regions respectively. Did someone drop a piece of bread into a fresh batch of lamp oil? Perhaps but we will never know.
To get a great crop of blueberries every year, one also has to prune the shrubs every winter. Not spring or fall, but during winter when the plant is dormant. Pruning is a little tricky in the beginning, but the video below from the University Of Maine explains clearly how to prune blueberries and why.
Here’s how you can foster a good mood among the children once you decide to bring them out for an afternoon in the garden.
Did you know that home gardeners have been using homemade insecticidal soap for a long time? Fish-oil soap used to be the common solution for pest control, but now eco-friendly consumers are turning to all-natural alternatives. Remember, not all pests are bad. Here are some beneficial insects, good bugs for your garden. Video on Homemade…
Choosing the ideal trellis plants that flower can be a challenging decision. There are plenty of climbing plants and flowering vines for growing on a trellis system. Each of the flowering vines has their own beauty and characteristics. There are many creative ideas and products on how to mix flowers and give your garden and property a beautiful accent.
The dogwood tree is an attractive tree in every season of the year. In the springtime, dogwood trees burst into full blooms blanketing the woodlands in white. In the fall, the same trees provide a wonderful “turning of the leaves” autumn experience. They also produce delightful red berries that provide sustenance for birds.
Question: I am losing about half of my tomato crop because of fruit rot. Sunken round spots develop over the ripening fruit. The spots enlarge rapidly in warm weather.
Answer: ….
It’s simple, you need potassium for plants if you want healthy plants. It’s vital that you have the right amount of potassium in your soil because large amounts are absorbed from the plant root zone during crop production.
Irrespective of whether you are a beginner or a guru in growing vegetables, making mistakes is inevitable. You might not repeat the old mistakes, but you’ll always commit new ones each and every year. I do!
Most soil usually does not contain enough nutrients to help plants reach optimum performance and growth levels. Even the very best garden soil becomes depleted with the passage of time.
As plants grow, they consume the soil nutrients. Fertilizing properly, adds nutrients back into the soil resulting in bountiful crops, beautiful flowers, healthy trees and bushes.
Here’s the deal! Did you ever ask yourself this question – “Is cucumber a fruit or a vegetable?”
All fruits and veggies are very healthy additions to any diet, but there are some members of the produce category are simply hard to categorize.
Sooty mold on plants you’ve seen it. The black soot formed on the upper leaf surfaces of plants. Sooty mold can be a real problem on garden plants.
The Cucumber beetle is a common pests throughout most of southern Canada east of the Rocky Mountains. Cucumber beetles spread plant disease and lay waste to a wide variety of cucurbit crops in both home gardens and commercial farms. In this article, we will examine the attributes of the cucumber beetle and share advice on keeping them under control in your farm or garden. Read on to learn more.
Some people believe in tomato companion plants and others think it is some old wives tale. Growing friendly plants together is said to help growth, produce more flavor and protect fruits and vegetables from insects and pests.
Railing planters help fix one of the downsides of living in an apartment in a big city (or any city for that matter). The “problem” is… you don’t have the room to make a sizable garden like you would have at a house.
The use of plastic sheeting or mulch in the garden proves to be a useful tool for some garden crops. Many crops do well with the support of plastic sheeting and plastic mulch. These innovative products have many uses in the garden.
So you’re interested in growing bell peppers! We find bell peppers in red, green, yellow and purple, plus they are loaded vitamin A and C. Another nice fact is that the crop cycle is not very long. In fact, you can harvest them in about 10-12 weeks with multiple peppers per plant.
The bright natural light of southern exposure provides plenty of energy for hungry plants. But, you must remember that the glass of the window may magnify the heat to dangerous levels. In this article, we share the merits of a south facing windows for indoor gardening.
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