Out of all the vegetables I use, onions would be ranked #1. I use onions in stir fry, soups, pot pies and practically anytime I cook meat in a crock pot. In fact I can’t imagine cooking without them. So in an effort to reduce our grocery budget, and to try to grow 2,000 lbs Read More >>
How to Grow Your Own Food: How to Plant Raspberries / Raspberry Canes
If you don’t have a raspberry patch of your own, or you simply want to add new canes to your existing patch, here’s a great how to guide on raspberries. If you decide to buy them in bulk as I did, they will look like this. Basically a bunch of roots. You can place an Read More >>
How to Grow Your Own Food: How to Plant Strawberries
In January I dug up my strawberry beds to make room for this years tomato crop. Although I was able to salvage some of the plants, the original strawberry plants had been there about 4 years, so I decided this year would be a great year to order new ones. I wanted to buy in Read More >>
How to Plant Peas
Although it was a wee bit chilly yesterday the skies were clear and the sun was shinning so I decided to plant a raised garden bed full of peas and radish seeds. This year I will be growing 2 varieties of peas and 4 different types of radish. I want to be able to enjoy Read More >>