Tag Archives: gardening

How to Grow Ginger at Home

I have read a lot about the medicinal properties of ginger and wanted to see if I could grow it at home.  It is super easy!  Here’s how I am doing it, and it seems to be working well. Pick up a piece of ginger at a local store, preferably organic if you can find it.  …

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The Perfect Garden Soil

My wife and I (mostly my wife) are continually researching online the best and cheapest way to do things.  With gardening, we’re firm believers in Square Foot Gardening.  We’re new to it, but our first crops are doing well, as you can see in the picture of our greenhouse below. The soil is an extremely …

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Grow Potatoes in an Expandable Potato Box

This is my first year growing potatoes, but I have read a lot about growing potatoes in various structures like a trash can or in stacked used tires.  I decided to try an idea I saw on the internet about potato boxes. Potatoes are a tuber, not a root, so the potatoes grow around the …

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Seed Starting – Make your own seed-starting trays out of eggshells

If you are careful cracking them to only open the tip end, you can save the eggshells from your daily cooking for use in seed starting.  Make sure to rinse them!  Just set them aside until you have enough to start enough seeds for your early spring planting. As you can see, they can add …

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