Tag Archives: crops

Testing heirloom seeds

A good rule is to try to use seeds for the given year’s season, but what if sometimes we don’t get all that season’s seeds planted. From time to time everyone has ‘left0ver’ seeds.  What should be done with those? There is a way to use last year’s or even the previous year’s seeds (let’s [...] Read more

Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: Start Smaller than your Dream

Tuesday’s Tip to Homesteading: “Start Smaller than your Dream” is by NO MEANS a damper on your vision of homesteading! If anything, it is to keep that from happening. Once you’ve gotten the homesteading ‘bug’ it is almost impossible to get rid of it. We had a short stint in Southern California suburbia that down-right [...] Read more