Tag: gardening
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Easy Vegetables to Grow From Seed
Are you about to pick up a bagillion plants from a large home and garden store. Stop right there! Before you buy those plants, know what vegetables you can easily grow from seed. Growing some vegetables from seed will save you some money (even if it’s just a few dollars) and will grow your gardening […]
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Unique Vegetable Seeds to Grow in Your Garden
Have you been growing basic vegetables for the past few years and are ready to grow something more exciting? I love experimenting with unique vegetable seeds, from varieties of crops I’ve already grown. Growing fun vegetables makes growing, cooking, and eating them even more exciting. Below are some unique vegetable seeds that you can grow […]
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What Can you Compost? Compostable Materials list
Everyone is always asking me what you can throw in your compost. I’ve heard crazy things like “you can’t compost orange peels” to “you can compost human feces”. So, what can you compost? I put this simple, easy compostable materials list that is perfect for beginners. Compostable Materials List The general things that you can […]
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Why Compost? The Benefits of Composting
It seems that more and more people are talking about composting in an effort to help the environment. But helping the environment is just one of the many benefits of composting. Over the decades we’ve adopted a consumerist lifestyle. We seem to throw away things as soon as we obtain them. And although some of […]
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A Simple Guide to Apartment Composting
In some of my recent posts I talked about Why You Should Compost, Backyard Composting: How to Start a Compost Pile, and Types of Compost bins. But a lot of my readers live in urban areas and want to learn more about apartment composting. To make things easy for you, I put together this simple […]
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Easiest Herbs to Grow from Seed
I’ve been growing a variety of herbs for years, determined to grow as many as I can from seed. But that sounds easier than it actually is. After years of learning what herbs germinate best, I’ve put together this quick list of the easiest herbs to grow from seed. Slow-Bolt Cilantro Cilantro is by far […]