I love having fresh flowers in the house. During the summer months I can cut fresh flowers from my garden, but during the winter it takes a little more planning. By forcing bulbs you can enjoy fresh flowers during the dark days of winter. Not only will you be able to enjoy the blooms butContinue reading “My Garden: Forcing Narcissus Bulbs”
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Making a Veggie Hod
A homemade Veggie Hod is the perfect solution for carrying in vegetables from the garden. These simple directions will help you make your own.
My Garden: Fall Update
Usually in the fall my schedule slows down somewhat. I have a seasonal job that comes to an end in mid October, which means I have more time to devote to getting the gardens put to bed and preparing for the winter season. Instead, this year I have been spending my time driving back andContinue reading “My Garden: Fall Update”
My Garden: The Last Seed Saving Class
Don’t forget to enter the WonderMill Grain Mill Giveaway! Click here to enter! Remember when I attended my first seed saving class? It was May and the garden was just beginning. It was so much fun to follow Sylvia’s garden through the seasons. I learned as much from Sylvia as I did from the otherContinue reading “My Garden: The Last Seed Saving Class”
My Garden: Time To Plant Garlic
This week the giveaway is a brand new WonderMill Grain Mill! I am currently taking part in the Grain Mill Challenge and WonderMill was kind enough to send me a grain mill. Since I already own one I decided to give it away to one of my readers. Click here to enter! It’s been a busy fall,Continue reading “My Garden: Time To Plant Garlic”
My Garden: Homemade Seed Tape Revisited
The last year has just flown by. On The Home Front has been live for over a year now. To celebrate there will be a giveaway each week during the month of October. Be sure to go to the contest page and enter! After looking through many of the popular garden posts from the last year, IContinue reading “My Garden: Homemade Seed Tape Revisited”
My Garden: Late-Bearing Blueberries
Late season blueberries are a great way to extend your blueberry production. We have a total of ten bushes, most of which we’ve had for four years. When we purchased the bushes we made sure that we had a selection that would produce the entire summer. As a result we have several early bearing bushes,Continue reading “My Garden: Late-Bearing Blueberries”
My Garden: September Update
Labor Day has passed and there are signs of fall everywhere. The leaves are changing, the nights are colder, and it won’t be long before frost touches the valleys and hilltops of Vermont. My garden did very well in some areas and not so well in others. We had a rather hot and dry summer,Continue reading “My Garden: September Update”
My Garden: Potato Bucket Yield
How many of you remember that I planted my potatoes in buckets this year? The great potato experiment! This past weekend I harvested my potatoes. Was it a success? I did not have the five-pound yield per bucket that some folks claimed I might get but I did get about a pound of potatoes perContinue reading “My Garden: Potato Bucket Yield”
My Garden: What Can You Compost?
I receive a lot of questions regarding composting; one common question is “What can I compost?” Earlier this summer we built a compost bin out of pallets. It’s been wonderful to have such a large 3-bin composter. For our bin we’ve been layering weeds from the garden, bedding from our chickens and adding manure as weContinue reading “My Garden: What Can You Compost?”
Nancy on the Home Front 