Try homesteading—Make easy moves to improve the sustainability of your life. Find vegetable gardening tips, flower gardening tips, and general tricks to make it all easier. Tips for raising chickens for better food and natural fertilizer.
Tomato worms make my skin crawl. A couple of years ago, I went out to the garden and found that the leaves were stripped off my tomato plants. If you have intact tomato plants one day and just stalks the next, you may have tomato worms. I have decided to call these pests tomato worms…
Get a start on the season by starting tomato seeds indoors Here in Vermont, Town Meeting Day, the first Tuesday in March marks the day to start vegetable seeds. I always start tomato seeds indoors because the growing season is so short here. After abandoning vegetable gardening for flower gardening years ago, prices, concern for…
Getting started raising chickens We’ve raised chickens several times. The first time was when we moved into our house in the 1980s, and since it came with a chicken coop, my husband ordered 24 layers and 24 broilers. That started our on-again-off-again journey into raising chickens. Talk about trial by fire… After quite a hiatus,…
