Sustainable Gardening

Sustainable gardening ideas about how to grow and how to build a garden to sustain your family. Design and layout days for the beginner, plans, and how to have a sustainable garden in a small area.
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Grow Amazing Strawberries!
You can grow amazing strawberries this year! These easy tips will show you: which kinds will give you the best harvest; the right sun, water, and soil for strawberries; and how to keep bugs away.
Home Hydroponics with Tyler Baras
In this episode, author and farmer Tyler Baras is talking about what hydroponics is, as well as how it is different from aquaponics. He also talks about how some foods can taste different when grown hydroponically and what you can do to compensate.
Planning the Sustainable Garden: How Much Will You Grow?
After choosing what to grow, the question is, how much do you want to grow? Do you simply want to grow enough to eat fresh throughout the growing season? Do you plan to can or freeze any for winter meals?
Grow Turmeric for Better Health and Happiness - The Thrifty Homesteader
Fresh-harvested turmeric is nothing like the dried spice you get in containers. Even when you buy it “fresh” at the grocery store, that turmeric will have lost some of its luster and aromatic properties in transit. To truly experience turmeric’s immense power and potency as luxuriously fragrant spice, you must grow it at home.
Growing your own sprouts - The Thrifty Homesteader
Whether it’s the middle of winter or you simply have no yard, a lack of outdoor space is not a barrier to growing some food. You can grow sprouts in a jar in your kitchen for a fraction of the cost of buying them in the store.
Plan your garden for food preservation - The Thrifty Homesteader
The most important aspect of planning what to plant in your garden with preserving in mind is to identify which foods you and your family eat on a consistent basis. If you don’t like beets, then don’t plant a third of your garden in them and waste the time preserving them.
Composting
If you want an all natural, practically free fertilizer for your garden, then compost is the answer! It's the only fertilizer I use in my garden. Check out my new training and learn everything you need to know to turn garbage into black gold!
8 Reasons to Grow Your Own Food - The Thrifty Homesteader
Although most people seem excited to learn about our self-reliant lifestyle, every now and then, someone doesn’t get it. Or they may think that we do this simply to save money. But the reality is that there are a lot of benefits to growing your own food.
How to Grow the Best Blackberries - Days Well Spent
Learn what you need to know to grow the biggest and juiciest blackberries!
How to Maintain a Raspberry Patch - How to Prune Raspberry Plants
Raspberries are quite easy to grow, but they do need a good pruning and clean up once or twice a year. Here's how to prune raspberry plants.
8 Reasons to Grow Your Own Food - The Thrifty Homesteader
Although most people seem excited to learn about our self-reliant lifestyle, every now and then, someone doesn’t get it. Or they may think that we do this simply to save money. But the reality is that there are a lot of benefits to growing your own food. #gardening #growyourown
Garden Therapy - The Thrifty Homesteader
Gardening improves physical, psychological, and social health because it's accessible to all people and can exist anywhere.
Save a Fortune by Starting Your Own Seeds
When a seed costs only pennies and a transplant costs a buck or two, you don't have to be a math wiz to know that you can save big bucks by starting your seeds from scratch. #gardening
Rabbits and the Home Garden - The Thrifty Homesteader
Rabbits can help your garden grow, and your garden can do the same for your rabbits. The manure is great for growing most anything, and some garden produce can help you feed your rabbits. #rabbits