Cabbage is an excellent and often overlooked vegetable for the home garden. The health benefits of cabbage rival those of kale and growing cabbage is really easy if you know a bit about the plant. What kind of vegetable is cabbage? Cabbage is a member of the brassica genus of plants. Brassicas are a group of plants that includes other leafy greens…
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Have you tried to grow food before and been frustrated with the task? I have! I remember trying to grow some tomatoes one year and being very frustrated that I never got to eat one because they never ripened! I had visions of homemade salsa dancing in my head, but of the three tomatoes on the plant, not a single…
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Would you agree that making a new year’s resolution is the easy part? Sticking to it…well, that’s much harder to do. Thousands of people are making new year’s resolutions this year because most of us want to do better in some way with each new year. My resolution is to grow even more variety of food on our homestead. It’s…
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I’ve had a hectic holiday season, and as much as I enjoy spending time with my family and all the holiday festivities, I’m really glad it’s all over. For some reason, I really stressed over things this year. So I’m really happy 2017 is finally here, and I can start planning the garden for this spring! But first, I want…
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The other day I had a friend tell me she’d never had success at gardening and wished she could be as good at growing things as I am. It took me by surprise. I had never considered gardening something I’m particularly good at doing. Obsessed with it. Yes. But good at it? My plants die all the time. Not all of…
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