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Home Gardening on a Budget

Gardening can be expensive. Every year, when we used to start a summer container garden we would spend lots of money buying two or three bags of potting soil, a…

How To Germinating Seeds For Planting

It’s spring and us gardeners are sitting with the seed catalog, planning this season’s garden. It’s finally time to start seeds indoors and I have already talked about which…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Seeds
Apr, 11, 2022
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Beans, the Climate, Smart Food, and Why You Should Grow Beans

As homesteading vegans, we grow a variety of beans: pole beans, bush beans, fava beans, edamame, chickpeas — and the list goes on. For…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Apr, 04, 2022
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Vegetables seeds to start growing early indoors

Here in grow zone 10A where we live, our garden is in full swing but if you live in a colder climate, now is the time to begin…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Seeds
Mar, 07, 2022
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Fall Gardening Tips

Many of us carefully cultivate our gardens during the spring and summer, only to ignore them come fall and winter. In fact, fall is the best time to tackle many important projects. There are…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Composting
Oct, 04, 2021
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Leafy Greens To Grow in the Fall

We’re getting our garden ready for winter vegetables. Planning and plotting out what we will grow next season here in zone 10B (San Diego, California) is so much fun. We grow lots of leafy…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Sep, 18, 2021
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Preserved Tomatoes in Garlic and Basil Oil

When we grow tomatoes, they tend to ripen all at once so taking care of harvest is essential if you want to save tomatoes for the winter. We freeze tomatoes, make sundried and make…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Urban Homestead
Jul, 25, 2021
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