Category: Homesteading

Gardening in the fall and winter months brings a much-welcomed ease to the vegetable garden. This may have you wondering when to plant cool season vegetables. With less heat, disease, and pest pressure, I think it’s the perfect time to grow some food.

Did you know that sowing winter cover crop can give you a better Spring garden? Keep reading for all the details on using winter cover crop to …

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.