Gardening

 

Swallowtail Butterfly in the Flower Garden

Getting Started Gardening

New to Gardening – Start Here – Tips for Beginners

Getting Started with Herb Gardening

Simple Record Keeping for the Garden

Soil Testing – Why I Use Worm Castings

Seed Starting

Seed starting for Biodiversity, Seed Starting Setup

My Favorite Seed Sources, Seed Storage and Germination

Tomato Mania – Seed Starting, Transplanting and Troubleshooting

Plant Supports, Pest Control

Vertical Gardening – Using Trellises for Tomatoes, Beans, Peas and Cucumbers

Natural Pest Control in the Garden

Coffee Grounds and Mud Pies

Specific Crops

Grow Stevia and Make Your Own Liquid Sweetener

Grow Your Own Pepitas (Hulless Pumpkin Seeds)

How to Grow Blueberries – Grow Your Own Superfruit

How to Grow Raspberries

Growing Asparagus and Rhubarb

Before You Plant Sunchokes, You Need to Read This Post

Season Extension/Crop Storage

Planning for Storage Crops

Four Season Harvest

Root Cellars 101

The Parsnip Squid and the Rock That Moves

Garden Tools and Equipment

Cleaning and Sharpening Garden Tools

How to Build a Rain Barrel, Plus Care and Maintenance

Food Preservation/Cooking

New to Food Preserving – Start Here

Getting Started With Home Canning

Getting Started with Home Food Drying

Favorite Garden Cookbooks

How to Infuse Herbs in Oil, Water, Vinegar, Alcohol or Honey

Don’t for get to check out the recipe page for recipes that use fresh garden produce, including canning and preserving instructions for several crops.

Miscellaneous Garden Links

8 Health Benefits of Gardening

Confessions of a Messy Gardener

The Common Sense Homestead Garden 2011

Slide show view from our deck

 

2011 Garden – 360 view from the center of the garden wheel

Garden Guests – Photos of some of Our Garden Visitors

Wildcrafting – Using Your Weeds

Although not standard “garden” elements, my weeds are also harvested for culinary and medicinal use. I host Wildcrafting Wednesdays here every week, and also write a “Weekly Weeder” series during the growing season, along with other weed related posts.

“Real” Healing Potions

Wildcrafting 101

Weekly Weeder #1 – Introduction

Weekly Weeder #2 – Chickweed

Weekly Weeder #3 – Thistle

Weekly Weeder #4 – Clover

Weekly Weeder #5 – Chicory

Weekly Weeder #6 – Queen Anne’s Lace

Weekly Weeder #7 – Ragweed

Weekly Weeder #8 – Butter and Eggs

Weekly Weeder #9 – Canada Goldenrod

Weekly Weeder #10 – Common Milkweed

Weekly Weeder #11 – Evening Primrose

Weekly Weeder #12 – New England Aster

Weekly Weeder #13 – Common Mullein

Weekly Weeder #14 Common Plantain

Weekly Weeder #15 – Shepherd’s Purse

Weekly Weeder #16 – Common Nettle

Weekly Weeder #17 – Common Dandelion

Weekly Weeder #18 – Ox-eye Daisy

Weekly Weeder #19 – Catnip

Weekly Weeder #20 – Winter Cress

Weekly Weeder #21 – Lamb’s Quarters

Weekly Weeder #22 – Wild Geranium

Weekly Weeder #23 -Common Blue Violet

Weekly Weeder #24 -Prickly Wild Lettuce

Weekly Weeder #25 – Creeping Charlie

Weekly Weeder #26 -Sulphur Cinquefoil

Weekly Weeder #27 – Birdsfoot trefoil

Weekly Weeder #28 – Purslane

Weekly Weeder #29 – Pineapple Weed

Weekly Weeder #30 – Common Burdock

Common Mallow – Weekly Weeder #31

Curly Dock – Weekly Weeder #32

Jewelweed – Weekly Weeder #33

Common Yarrow – Weekly Weeder #34

Joe Pye Weed – Weekly Weeder #35

Heath Aster – Weekly Weeder #36

Wild Cucumber – Weekly Weeder #37

Please join us every Wednesday for a new wildcrafting post and the Wildcrafting Wednesday blog hop.

  10 Responses to “Gardening”

  1. What great photos! That was fun! I love the idea of a round garden. I do everything on the side of hill so it’s all in raised beds that are sort of terraced. Your garden is beautiful! Love the 360 view from the center of it! Thanks for sharing!

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  7. I have moved my tomato seedlings from a milk jug to a big plastic tote, holes in the bottom for drainage. My question is I move about 40 small ones in this tote that is 14 inches deep and 20 inches wide have I over crowded them? I planted so many ran out of little pots and containers so went to the much bigger ones, your advise on this would be appreciated. Thanks Ellen from Georgia

    • It’s rather hard for me to visualize exactly the size of everything, but it does sound like they may end up overcrowded as they grow. If you transplant outside before they get too big (after hardening them off), you may be okay.

  8. You have amazing garden photos! I’m going to bookmark your website and I will open each links in this topic. This is really interesting. Keep on posting! :-D

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