Gardening
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
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
Before You Plant Sunchokes, You Need to Read This Post
Season Extension/Crop Storage
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
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.
Weekly Weeder #1 – Introduction
Weekly Weeder #6 – Queen Anne’s Lace
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 #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 #29 – Pineapple Weed
Weekly Weeder #30 – Common Burdock
Common Mallow – Weekly Weeder #31
Curly Dock – Weekly Weeder #32
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.
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!
Thanks, Susan. It’s great to look back at the summer photos and dream this time of year.
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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.
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