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How to Grow Sunflowers for a Memorable Outdoor Wedding

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Grow sunflowers for special events on your homestead. They are fast growing annuals that screen imperfections and look stunning in bouquets, center pieces, and as backdrops to wedding photos. The key to success is choosing the right sunflower variety for your purpose. Sarah is getting married in August and has asked for a homegrown sunflower […]

15 Medicinal Herbs for Chickens to Keep Them Healthy and Pestfree

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Grow these 15 herbs for chickens near the chicken coop. They will improve immunity, keep them parasite free, reduce their stress, and prevent boredom. Healthy, happy chickens lay more eggs. Growing herbs is a simple and economical way to keep your backyard flock healthy and productive. Benefits of Growing Herbs for Chickens Herbs are easy […]

5 Bee Friendly Perennials for Your Zone 3 Garden for Better Biodiversity

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Adding bee friendly perennials will make your organic garden more hospitable to both native pollinators and honey bees and ensure that you can continue to harvest fruit and vegetables that need pollination over a long season. The key is to provide bee fodder throughout the growing season using perennials. From early in the spring, when […]

4 Simple Exercises for Gardeners For a Painfree Gardening Season

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Preseason Exercises for Gardeners are just as important as the preseason training in competitive sports. The preseason warmups prevent injury, keeping the gardener in the game, ensuring a long and profitable gardening season. Do you remember to do this before you plant those first seeds? If you forget this you aren’t alone. Even veteran gardeners […]

15 Easy Steps to Start Seeds the Right Way and the Secret Sauce For Stronger Plants

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Follow these easy steps to start seeds in your climate and you’ll be rewarded with stronger plants with resilient health that give you timely, trouble-free harvests. When you are gardening in a difficult climate giving seeds a head start can make a huge difference in your harvest in a few months. But it isn’t as […]

How to Plan Your Medicinal Herb Garden For Less Toil and More Fun

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A medicinal herb garden is easy to grow using plants that are suited to your growing conditions and plant hardiness zone. But choosing the right plants for your growing conditions is the key to creating a successful medicinal herb garden that is easy to maintain without undue toil. Afterall who wants to work when they […]

Companion Planting with Herbs to Increase Biodiversity and Improve Yields

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Companion planting with culinary and medicinal herbs can increase vegetable yields, improve the health of the soil, repel pests, and encourage beneficial soil micro-organisms that make soil nutrients more bioavailable to vegetables. Intentionally and strategically planting herbs near vegetables can make your vegetable garden grow better and increase your yields. Plus just planting some of […]

Planting an Herbal Tea Garden that Thrives in Zone 3

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Growing your own tea in an herbal tea garden is smart for your health and smart for your garden. You don’t have to buy herbal tea in those expensive packages where the tea costs more than $35 per pound. Instead when you grow your own, you can have a limitless supply for free. Plus the […]