Edible Gardening

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Why you should grow Kale

Cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts, cauliflower, and kale are some of the healthiest vegetables you can grow. The health benefits are almost too numerous to mention, but they can help prevent cancer in more than one way, and they can even help fight cancer, literally. Regular readers will know I’m a fan [...]

Detroit Area Homeowner faces Jail for Front Yard Vegetables

Being in Michigan, (though thankfully not Detroit) I am somewhat familiar with Detroit. The city is basically a hole, miles of abandoned buildings. It has suffered under decades of big government mismanagement. It is the only city in the US to surpass 1 million people, but then fall below that, and in fact it’s population [...]

Front Yard Farming

I’ve seen articles recently about global food shortages and feeding our populations and whatnot, bunch of scare tactics mostly, but when you sit down and think about it, there is a lot of land that could be used to grow food, but isn’t.
Highway medians, roadsides, parks, but mostly, front yards.
Some backwards and oppressive cities have [...]

Gardening, Cooking, and Making Your Family Healthier

I am really into nutrition, sometimes that zeal will permeate this blog, this post is one of those times.
I’ve talked significantly in the past about growing your own food, growing healthy foods, and whatnot, and I’m not going to merely be rehashing that here, you can look in the related posts in the bottom.
Instead [...]

Planting Sweet Potatoes

I planted my sweet potatoes the other day, and I’ve got to hand it to Burpee (where I ordered them), they said they’d arrive on the 25th, and they arrived on the 25th.
Sweet Potato Slips in a JarWee Little Slips Planted in a MoundSweet Potato Slips in Containers
If you’ve never grown sweet potatoes, you probably [...]

Your Garden, The Most Local Food of All

I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been exposed to the new green trend of “eating local.” The idea behind the movement is that food that is transported less has less of a “carbon footprint” and it is also good to support your local community.
That is all well and good, but as with [...]

Apricot Tree Update

A year ago I planted an apricot tree I had ordered from Stark Bros. I ended up making a post about it to rave about the quality of the bareroot tree I was sent, it had almost perfect branching.
I mentioned in the post that with such nicely pruned branching the tree could fruit sooner than [...]

My New Mini Greenhouse

One day I will have a nice big real temperature controlled greenhouse, I swear it. But for now, I don’t have one, nothing even close.

At Lowes the other day I saw something and made an impulse purchase, but I’m glad I did, because I really could use this product.
Basically it is a metal and plastic [...]

Extend the Harvest: How to Make Jam

This isn’t strictly a gardening post, strictly, but as I look outside and see the cold barren wasteland of Hoth I can’t really write much about gardening, can I?
However, extending your harvest is something that is interesting and useful for all people who grow edible plants, which is a whole lot of gardeners, so I’ve [...]

Stalking the Purple Potato

I love the idea of purple potatoes. Antioxidants and various other nutrituiets are often marked by color and flavor. Foods that are colorful, like blueberries or pomegranites, or butternut squash, have nutritients. Also, foods that are flavorful, cinnamon, nutmeg, most spices. The stronger the flavor, the darker the color, the better it is for you.

So [...]

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