Category: Gardening

If you’re gardening in Fall and Winter for the first time, you might be wondering what’s the best frost cloth for plants during Winter?

Every season when I sit down to plan out my garden, I first reach for my crop rotation chart. The second is my gardening journal so I can sketch out this season’s garden. It’s one of my favorite things to do when preparing for the upcoming gardening season. Keeping the crop rotation plan sketched out in my journal makes it easy to see the location of crops in the previous year so I can easily find a spot for everything.

While you dig through your garden soil, you may see the presence of earthworms, or maybe not.  This is sure to have you wondering how do earthworms help the soil and whether they are important. Let’s dig deep to find the 10 benefits of earthworms.

Get those green thumbs ready and let’s make DIY seed starting pots.  It’s an easy project that will save you even more money when starting your garden by seed. You’ll be surprised at all the things you can reuse for seed starting pots.

You’ve heard that you can save your own tomato seeds for next year, but do you know how to save tomato seeds without fermenting them? Learn the easiest way …

Here at the American Farmsteadhers, our main goal is to help you discover ways to grow more of your own food. So, naturally, we had to create a free square foot gardening template printable to encourage you along the way.