Garden Tips & Tricks

These garden tips and tricks will help your fruit, vegetable, and flower gardens grow a little easier.

A row of potted indoor plants basking in natural sunlight on a windowsill, featuring vibrant green herbs and succulents.

Backyard Garden

Indoor Gardening Benefits: 10 Reasons to Grow Plants Indoors

An herbal spiral made from rocks and filled with fresh herbs.

Backyard Garden

How to Choose the Ideal Location for Your Herbal Spiral Garden

A closeup of green beans in the garden.

Backyard Garden · Real Food

How to Harvest Green Beans & How to Preserve Them

Jalapeno peppers in the garden.

Backyard Garden · Real Food

How to Preserve Hot Peppers & Harvest for the Best Flavor

Picking a large heirloom tomato off the vine.

Backyard Garden · Real Food

When to Harvest Tomatoes & Preserve Them Like a Pro

A brown tail moth nest covered with caterpillars.

Backyard Garden

Conquer the Brown Tail Moth: Tips to Combat Invasive Species

A basket of homegrown food.

Backyard Garden

An Unexpected Use for SNAP: Buy Seeds with Food Stamps

Me modeling my handmade harvest apron from scrap fabric I had on hand.

Backyard Garden · Homestead Living

How Easily to Make a Harvest Apron or Gathering Apron

Sage: A Culinary & Medicinal Herb [+ Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe]

Backyard Garden

Sage: A Culinary & Medicinal Herb [+ Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe]

A variety of garden tools hung up in a greenhouse.

Backyard Garden

Must-Have Garden Tools for a Thriving Garden This Season

A compost bin with food scraps falling out of it with a teal background.

Backyard Garden

Composting for Beginners: The Ultimate Starter Guide

Water conservation has a great number of benefits. The homestead is ripe for opportunities to save water. Here are a just a few to get you started!

Backyard Garden

24 Easy Water Conservation Tips for the Homestead

Anyone can plant pretty flowers, but it takes time and effort to maintain a garden and keep it looking beautiful day after day.

Backyard Garden

How to Keep Your Garden Looking Great

Slicing tomatoes growing on the vine in my garden.

Backyard Garden

10 Tips for Growing Lush, Bountiful Tomato Plants

Gardeners and farmers have hard-working hands that need TLC. This homemade hand cream helps moisturize and soothe rough, achy hands.

Homestead Living

Soothing & Healing Hand Cream for Farmers/Gardeners

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

Backyard Garden

Hyssop: Why You Need to Make Some Space for This Herb

Gardening supplies laid out on a wooden table.

Backyard Garden

20 Gardening Hacks That Will Save You Time and Effort

A wooden crate filled with fresh red and green apples, ideal for winter storage.

Backyard Garden

Winter Food Storage: Keep Produce Fresh Through the Cold Months

A list of natural repellents that work on a wide array of insects in a variety of situations. Also included are great natural "after bite" solutions.

Homestead Living

Natural Insect Repellent: Nontoxic Options for Insect Control

Regardless of the size of your homestead, you can create a Monarch habitat by providing food, water, cover, and a place for the caterpillars to grow.

Backyard Garden

Monarch Butterfly Gardens

Native bee populations are suffering.They refer to it as Colony Collapse Disorder. You can help by planting native bee-friendly flowers.

Backyard Garden

A Meadow of Bee-Friendly Flowers

You can tap many types of trees for syrup. The list is quite long and includes all varieties of maples as well as walnuts, birches, sycamores and ironwoods.

Backyard Garden

Trees You Can Tap for Syrup

Move a portion of your garden south. How? you might ask. It is simple, with a greenhouse! You just need to find your correct greenhouse for your goals.

Backyard Garden

Move a Portion of Your Garden South

A polytunnel set up in a backyard garden.

Backyard Garden

How to Extend Your Growing Season with a Polytunnel

Marigolds flowers are more than just a pretty flower. They are miracle flowers. After reading this, you'll never look at a marigold flower the same way.

Backyard Garden

Miracle Marigold Flowers

Broccoli is a vegetable that I find incredibly difficult to harvest. It's not actually the harvesting part that is difficult, it's the timing that's hard.

Backyard Garden

When to Harvest Broccoli

Many people wonder when and how to prune their tomatoes. What are tomato suckers? How do you remove them? When shouldn't you remove tomato suckers?

Backyard Garden

Should You Remove Tomato Suckers