All Gardening Articles
A complete collection of gardening articles, experiences, and lessons learned.
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 Tip: Potting Soil
Let’s talk the potting soil racket. This year I have already planted 113 seedlings, maybe 40 – 50 yet to go. Does it get expensive to buy potting soil. Answer: Maybe. So let’s set a…
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Time to work on my strawberry patch! (ooooppppssss)
(no, that’s not my strawberry patch) Early last week I inspected my strawberry beds to see how close I was to un-mulching them for the spring. You can tell they are ready when you see…
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An Every Man’s Greenhouse – Part #1
First off…the greenhouse to the left is NOT what I am talking about. That greenhouse probably cost way more than my house did! It was just a nice picture and maybe just a bit of…
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I need your feedback on my 2024 garden proposal
I have done a tremendous amount of work getting my garden ready for 2024. I’ve built boxes, hauled in compost, bought pearlite, laid down landscape cloth, hauled in 4 tons of rock, put in a…
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Garden: New Set-up
Before I get into the details of our garden set-up it is important to know what we are trying to accomplish. As you well-know, everything we build, buy, or develop has a specific mission. We…
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Lessons Learned – Garden 2023
I put together some nice raised bed planter boxes…good call on my part. But, what really made the difference was the super high quality soil I made up for those boxes. Plenty of compost, mostly…
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Plan B, Plan C, and Strawberries…
So let’s do this in reverse order…strawberries first. But stick around for the Plan B & Plan C part…or jump directly to it. You know there is always method to my madness 🙂 Strawberries –…
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Time to be thinking spring…garden, orchard, & berry patch!
Yup, yesterday morning got me thinking about spring…garden, orchard, berry patch…YEA! I’ve been putting it off because of weather, mud mostly, but yesterday was one of my most favorite times of spring (ok, late winter)…pruning…
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Garden: Winterized Strawberries
My strawberry venture has been an interesting one this year to be sure. First, I started out and killed the initial 8 strawberry plants…$32 down the drain! But I learned not to trust others when…
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Garden: Orchard Fall Maintenance
January 2021 I started our fruit orchard…with 3 trees. So no, the picture to the left is not our orchard, just a nice picture to make you feel good and impress you. We started our…
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GARDEN: Strawberry Patch 2022 Fall Update
OK, this is a new kind of post for me. Yes, it is about our strawberry patch, that stays the same. What is different is how I produce it. Recently, about 2 weeks ago, I…
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GARDEN: Our Strawberry Patch – Fall
In addition to Pepsi I am a addicted to strawberries…yup, I love em! You will always find an open can of freeze dried strawberries in the cabinet for use on my Special K. This past…
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Garden: Hail and Starvation
About two weeks ago we had a really bad hail storm hit us. Two miles away…nothing. Here…really bad. So to make it simple to understand…we lost our entire garden…everything! The hail was the size of…
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Top 3 Apocalypse Vegetables
This article came from a question asked of me: What would the top 3 vegetables be in your garden during the apocalypse? Valid question…although the first time I have been asked that. And it is…
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Garden: Let’s Talk a Minute…
Since we started our “glamstead” I’ve been talking about gardens. Oh, what’s a glamstead? It’s kinda like a farmstead thing, kinda like a homestead thing…but with lots of modern conveniences such as relatively close to…
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Garden – 2021: 3/8/2021
On February 11th my wife and I started our seedlings. Now, just so you are aware…I’ve never, ever tried to grow my own plants from seeds indoors. Yeah, never. But, last year’s experience taught me…
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It’s time for garden prepping !
Yup, it’s that time of year to start preparing for your garden. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to actually start planting! Unfortunately it is not yet time for 99% of us to be…
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My 2020 Garden: Day #1
As most of you know by now we’ve moved into our new home that I built. It is a modest home, small, functional, and perfect for us. I am behind schedule…as is normal when building.…