Vegetable growing at home is a wonderful way to enjoy healthy and nutritious food, and reduce your grocery bill at the same time.
This section of the site will look at many aspects of how to grow a small garden, vegetable garden layout, vegetable gardening tips and more.
Whether you are a new homesteader, live in the city of countryside, I’ll be looking at how to start a vegetable garden from scratch and to maintain it throughout the annual calendar.
Enjoy this exciting part of a homesteading lifestyle and get growing NOW!
Ever since I lived in Australia, with a dry climate and a garden with poor topsoil, I’ve really grown to love using straw and hay bales for gardening. The benefits are many, the bales are cheap, and with a little ingenuity (not much, I promise), hay bale gardening can revolutionize how you grow vegetables and … Read More
DIY Vertical indoor gardening is a fun way to have a year round garden by growing the plants in pots up an indoor wall rather than in the ground. Space often makes it difficult to have a garden for someone wanting fresh vegetables or herbs in an urban area. Building a self-sustaining vegetable garden is really … Read More
As a kid I remember the lessons at school. Runner beans in jam jars sitting on damp tissue paper, growing cress in small trays, and learning how to grow carrots from scraps, and a plethora of other vegetables too. I enjoyed those times, funny how such apparently simple things seem like so much fun. Well, it’s not … Read More
The prices of fruits and vegetables have been rising relentlessly for the past few years, with these constantly rising prices, improvisation and creativity are necessary for the normal person to keep the family fed. There are many people who have opted to improvise and start growing fruits and vegetables indoors, and as you’ll discover in … Read More
Using cedar mulch for vegetable gardens is an incredibly useful way to keep weeds at bay and aid with keeping the soil moist for longer. Organic mulch materials can be used to great effect to promote the health of a vegetable garden, or any bed in which you want to help retain moisture, regulate soil temperature … Read More
In this short article in our vegetable growing series, I’ll be discussing how to build a vegetable garden box from scratch, with only a few common tools and not a lot of DIY skills. The whole process can be done with a handsaw, a tape measure, a spirit level, an electric drill, some screws, and … Read More
I wanted to put this post out there to make a statement, a personal view on why should you grow your own vegetables, and how doing so can be so impactful on our own lives, the lives of those around us, and indeed, on society as a whole. I also hope to instigate a discussion, contrary … Read More
I’ve always thought that the whole process of vegetable growing was a little long-winded. Don’t get me wrong, I love the process. Seed sowing, watering and nurturing, and then enjoying the fruits (I mean veggies) of my labor. But it takes a while, and I’m the impatient type. Are you? This article is going to … Read More
Creating a self sustaining garden is one of the most important and practical steps any homesteader or gardener can take if they truly care about minimizing work, creating healthy and enduring eco-systems, and maximizing long-term production from their garden. This article will focus primarily on food production for the sustainable garden, with vegetables and fruit … Read More