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Use Your Kitchen Scraps to Re-Grow Valuable Foods | New Book by Katie Elzer-Peters

A lifestyle guide to reducing waste and re-growing kitchen scraps into a food source you can control and trust. This post contains affiliate links. For years I’ve harvested and used the seeds from my store-bought or garden-harvested cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes to regrow the next year’s crop. Though I have had success with this method, …

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Companion Planting: Fight Garden Pests and Increase Your Yields The Natural Way

It was warm outside yesterday.  Almost 60 Fahrenheit and it makes me itch to get into the garden.  When my girls were very small I turned my attention almost solely to vegetable gardening and left the flowers to a few leftover and neglected places on my property.  Not that I don’t like flowers, but knowing how …

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Buy, Share, Keep and Toss Your Seeds

  I learned the hard way that even with proper storage commercially produced seeds lose their viability with time. In 2003/2004 I bought a boatload of seeds and have been trying ever since to get them all used up. Well, I think I’ve finally succeeded. I should have thrown them away about a year ago. …

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Potentially Invasive Garden Plants

Each spring the avid gardener thinks about what they are going to plant in their landscape and vegetable garden.  The beginners look to how they should start and what they should plant.  When I was a beginner I fell into the trap of wanting to plant EVERYTHING I laid my eyes one. “OOOO, that’s pretty.” …

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Transferring Seedlings to Pots

This is always one thing that makes me nervous in the growing process – repotting your new seedlings. Sherxr from Ur Resident Chef had a question about when and how to repot. Well, I’ve had my share of successes and failures in this regard, but I’ll share with you the process that seems to work …

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My Contribution to Earth Day

Monday I spent most of the day driving around because I had appointments everywhere but home. It was nice though because my baby girl got to spend some time with her cousins. I took the opportunity to get some cow manure compost, petunias, basil, rosemary, sweet marjoram and lavender at the local Lowe’s store. There …