All Gardener's Corner Pages (186)

Is organic better for your health? A look at milk, meat, eggs, produce and fish.

Is organic better for your health? A look at milk, meat, eggs, produce and fish. Organic or conventional? It’s a choice many grocery shoppers are faced with, over and over. The price difference is ea… View »

Top Organic Vegetable Gardening Challenges and How to Overcome Them

The perfect garden — free of all pests, weeds and weather surprises — does not exist. Nor does the perfect place to garden, because every climate is friendly to some crops and hostile to others. Tha… View »

Your Garden’s Soil pH Matters

To ensure that your garden crops make the most of the rich, organic soil you create, you need to understand your soil’s pH. The pH describes the relative acidity or alkalinity of your soil’s makeup,… View »

Decoding Seed Packets; or, What do all those abbreviations mean?!

It’s that time of year again. Seed catalogs are starting to pile up everywhere throughout the house. And I mean everywhere. I don’t think there’s a single room that doesn’t have at least one catalog.… View »

Growing Horseradish

Cold hardy, a perennial crop, and easy to grow in sun or partial shade, horseradish (Armoracia rusticana) quickly makes itself at home in gardens. Horseradish roots are harvested in fall, winter or… View »

You Can't Compost Meat (And Other Ridiculous Myths)

You Can't Compost Meat (And Other Ridiculous Myths) By David Goodman Tags: compost, humanure, composting meat, David Goodman, Florida Most of us have read articles on “how to compost.” Some of us (l… View »

Sell Your Surplus With a Farm-stand

Is your homestead overflowing with fresh produce, eggs or meat? Bravo! With an honor-box system, a farm-stand's products should be clearly priced, and shoppers are trusted to pay the right amount for… View »

Portable Greenhouse

In addition to allowing you to grow more winter fare, a greenhouse can also make the experience of growing food more comfortable by sheltering you, the grower, from cold weather. Many gardeners use c… View »

Portable Greenhouse

Chainsaw Maintenance Basics

Possibly no other piece of power equipment is more used, more coveted, more debated, more feared, and more crucial to managing costs on the homestead than the chainsaw. Granted, each homestead is dif… View »