How to Organize Your Garden Seed Collection • The Prairie Homestead
Tis the season for fresh garden dreams and pretty seed catalogs. I ordered my seeds last night and just like clockwork I went from not thinking about the garden in…
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Why You Should Grow Heirloom Seeds • The Prairie Homestead
There are mountain-high piles of snow everywhere, freezing temperatures, and spring is nowhere in sight. What is a cold-climate gardener to do? This is the time to start garden planning…
The Best Organic Fertilizers for Your Vegetable Garden • The Prairie Homestead
Perfect… Healthy… Well Balanced… Soil… …the kind of soil that encourages disease-free veggie plant growth and produces amazingly high harvest yields. Every Gardener’s Dream! Well, this gardener’s dream anyway… The…
How I’m Letting My Garden Be Easy This Year • The Prairie Homestead
“What if the garden was easy this year?” The thought landed in my brain and I instantly felt uncomfortable. I love hard things. Impossible challenges are my oxygen. When people…
Why Good Potting Soil is Important (and the Story of My Dead Tomato Seedlings) • The Prairie Homestead
Last spring, I couldn’t get my tomato seedlings to grow. I tried everything. After using multiple different seeds and seed companies, trying different pots, changing the lighting, watering differently, and…