As with my 101+ Dehydrating & 101+Canning posts, here is a new 101+ Gardening Tips & Ideas package to help you get ready for gardening season!
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101+ Gardening Tips & Ideas
General Tips
Saving Big on Lumber Supplies for Raised Garden Beds
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Growing Your Own Food but Were Afraid to Ask
Our Experiences With Companion Planting
Simple Record Keeping for the Garden with Printable Seed Starting Chart
Top 10 Seed Catalogs for the PREPared Gardener
6 Tips for Success if You’re Planting Your Garden Late
7 Things to do right now to get ready for a fabulous summer garden
How Much Food Can a Small Homestead Produce?
Monthly Calendar for Garden Maintenance
What You Need to know Before You Start your First Vegetable Garden
How Much Should I Plant To Feed My Family For A Year?
Benefits of Keeping a Gardening Journal
Square Foot Gardening Mistakes – learn from ours first!
The New Square Foot Garden
– save time and money when you’re growing in small spaces or use to help organize your way through the garden and rotate crops for regular folk!
Planning & Methods
How to Build and Plant a Square Foot Garden
9 DIY Raised Bed Garden Designs
Spring Garden Primer – Do a Mason Jar Soil Test
Planning Your Spring Garden
Vegetable Families and Crop Rotation
How to Plant an Herbal Tea Garden
Put Your Garden Beds to Rest for Winter
How to Save Big on Lumber Supplies for Your Square Foot Garden
How to Grow a Vegetable Garden in the Shade
Seeds
Building a Seed Growing Rack on the Cheap
Top 10 Seed (Organic, Non-GMO) Seed Catalogs
How viable are your stored seeds?
How to Save and Store Your Heirloom Garden Seed
Sprouting new garden plants from seeds: tips from an old pro
Survival Seeds in a Can-9 Years Later
How to Read the Back of Your Vegetable Seed Packets
Staring Seeds with a Soil Blocker
Transplanting
Planting and Transplanting Seedlings
Compost
The Dirty Truth About Composting
Smart Composting – Turn your Spoils into Soil
DIY Manure Tea – Putting Manure to Work in Your Garden
Plants
Crops That Can Be Planted Mid-Summer
How to Grow
Be aware that crop specific tutorials may be effected by where you live, the drought conditions, and heartiness. Use these only as a general guide on how to plant raise and harvest, but check into your local growing zones and soil conditions for properly growing them in your area. There are also hundreds of varieties of vegetables and fruits to grow. I am including a basic selection for beginning gardeners.
Carrots (for those of you in hard or clay soils, or not a ton of gardening space, growing carrots in containers is a great option)
Not only is organic gardening better for your health, it’s how man gardened for centuries until the advent of petro-chemical fertilizers and pest repellants. Get back to The Natural Way!
Pests & Weeds & Beneficials
Release the Ladybugs! A Natural Way to Control Aphids
Deer, Gracious Me! Nature’s Guide to Keeping Deer Out of Your Garden
How to Use Vinegar for Weed Control
Summer’s Most Infamous Pests… And How to Combat Them Naturally
Practically Free Garden Weed Barrier
DIY Natural Garden Pest Control
How to Keep Animals Out of Your Garden
Protect Your Garden with Beneficial Insects
Biodiversity
10 Things to Spray, Sprinkle & Brew for Garden Pest Control
10 Interesting Facts About Earthworms
How to Make Garlic Pepper Tea for Pest Control
Garrett Juice (for fertilizer and pest control)
Water
How to Build a Rain Barrel, Plus Care and Maintenance
How to Preserve Your Garden Bounty
