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This page contains every article published in the Gardening section of the site. Here you will find articles covering soil health, composting, fertilization, seed starting, transplants, vegetable gardening, fruit trees, berries, troubleshooting, and lessons learned. Together, these articles document years of practical gardening experience, successes, failures, observations, and knowledge gained while growing food in a challenging real-world environment.

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  • GARDEN : Strawberries – Planting Live Plants

    This experience couldn’t have been more different than the “bare root” experience. I bought my 20 Eversweet plants from an Etsy vendor…GrowYourOwnFoodShop. I’ve written about them before, they are the folks from whom I purchased…

  • GARDEN : Strawberries – Planting Bare Root

    First time for everything! I’ve been sharing my love of strawberries for years, and my desire to have a strawberry patch. After years of learning about strawberries and how to grow them in this area,…

  • GARDEN : Disaster Strikes !

    Some days you just wanna…well, wonder what the heck is going on. Last Saturday morning was one of those days…disaster had struck in the garden the night before. Well, technically in the greenhouse…but it is…

  • Sometimes I just get excited…

    So there I was Friday night…out to dinner with my wife celebrating 21 years together, wedded bliss. Yeah, hard to believe that someone would put up with me for 21 whole years. I guess she…

  • GARDEN : Perlite vs Vermiculite

    I am no master gardener…not by a long shot. But, my thumb is fairly green. In years past, pretty much all my life, I’ve done pretty well with vegetable and flower gardens. I did have…

  • Q & A : Growing Onions

    How do you start and grow onions? I found that onion variety is really sensitive based on the area of the country you are in. For us I found Wala Wala does really well. That…

  • Q & A : Seedlings

    I got a couple of questions from my latest “glamstead” article… < click here to read that article >       What do you use for potting soil? I’ve used different versions. I’ve also…

  • Getting the glamstead ready for 2026…

    Garden – Here it is mid-February and I am pumped! Last week I planted my first seeds; a bunch sprouted within 4 days, even more now 8 days later. I have every variety of tomatoes…

  • Strawberry Update…Success !

    Okay, enough of the current events and political opinion stuff…how about some glamstead garden info? Several years ago I purchased some strawberry plants from a local big box DIY store, they were Sequoia variety. I…

  • Update (2/24/2025)

      Well, I figured it was time for an update on life here on the glamstead. Might explain the 20-day quiet spell just a bit. And FWIW…there is a ‘summary’ at the end that wraps…

  • How to make dirt…Part #4

    This is the fourth in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Parts #1, #2 & #3 you might want to: <click here to read Part #1> <click here to read Part #2>…

  • How to make dirt…Part #3

    This is the third in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Parts #1 & #2 you might want to: <click here to read Part #1> <click here to read Part #2> We…

  • How to make dirt…Part #2

    This is the second in the making dirt series. If you haven’t already read Part #1 you might want to <click here to read Part #1> We are moving on from raised bed soil to…

  • How to make dirt…Part #1

    Administrative note: I broke this super, super long article into 5 shorter ones. I didn’t want to bore folks to death or overload Internet servers from folks reading it. The “parts” will be: Introduction &…

  • GARDEN: Strawberry Patch 2024 Fall Work (video)

    Here we go!!!!  Yup, trying my hand at another video. This one is a ‘glamstead’ and ‘garden’ subject. I hop you enjoy it…or at least get some good information from it 🙂      …

  • Garden: Q & A – Why in the he$$ are you preparing a 6k square foot garden?

    Why in the he$$ are you preparing a 6k square foot garden? First off…the total area I worked on was 10,000sq’, only about 6,000sq’ is going to be usable for a potential garden area. I…

  • Garden: Losses and Lessons Learned

    OK, so here is the after action report on the big freeze-out that occurred on May 8th that I wrote about on May 9th (Garden: Big Mistake). Here is the first thing that I found…

  • Garden: Big Mistake!

    I’ve been really working hard at expanding our garden this year. Our goal is to try and eat out of the garden as much as possible. A secondary goal was to become independent of buying…

  • Garden: Q & A – Tomato Soil

    From: floidb RE: Garden Tip: Potting Soil Greetings and thanks for the helpful article. Do you think this mixture would work well for planting the tomatoes in a raised container, once they are large enough to…

  • Garden: Starting Tomatoes Indoors

    Let’s talk why to start seedlings indoors. In my area you have a 50% chance of frost (36oF) by June 3rd. Two weeks later there is only a 10% chance of frost. Sure you can…

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