An Arkansas Mama's journey to natural, simple living.
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are 100% my own. Starting your own seedlings is the best way to jump-start your garden early in the season. This is something that I failed to due early this year myself but have finally started to get on the ball! Gardening is such an amazing way to de-stress and relax aside from the obvious that you know exactly what is being put into on on your food. Simple put, gardening is sustainable. {Read More}
Garlic is a crop that once you put a little effort into planning and planting, doesn’t require much care. We truly appreciate that after having the long, intensive heat we have had this summer. Garlic does well planted in the fall. It gives the bulb’s time to sprout roots and begin to develop before the colder temperatures of winter arrive. Why start in the fall? Most farmers plant their garlic in October before the ground freezes. When you plant in {Read More}
As we start to reach the middle of August, it is truly time to begin thinking about some final efforts in our gardens. What if you haven’t yet planted a garden? Don’t worry, it still is not too late! Of course it truly depends on where you live, but there are still several cold hardy crop varieties that you can plant during mid-late August that will still have time to mature before the 2012 gardening season comes to a close. {Read More}
For some of us, the summer heat has already felt like an eternity. I can tell many of the plants in my garden have felt the heat too. With an unseasonably hot and dry summer, many of my vegetables have yielded a very small crop. It isn’t too late to actually reap the benefits of a summer garden though! For many of us that use succession planting, it is time to start thinking of planting many cooler weather crops. If {Read More}
For so many of our families, we love potatoes. Potatoes are so versatile and can be prepared with almost any dish. Although we do not eat potatoes daily, we do eat 2-3 pounds most weeks. Even though potatoes are loaded with carbohydrates, they are also loaded with vitamin-C, potassium and vitamin-B6. We enjoy eating garlic mashed potatoes, steamed potatoes, creamy potatoes, and oven fries, well almost any way. So after reading my article about planting potatoes in garbage cans, did {Read More}
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