I have a lot of Zinnia's that i have taken off the main stem and taken apart and I don't knoe the easiest way to get the seeds out of the pile because seems like there are seeds and then just a simple dried flower stem along beside them. I have been using tweezers but there has to be an easier...

I'm not sure about the cost per hour in labour, but it's really not that expensive if you do it right. I follow the Square Foot Gardening method and started really small (about 40 sq ft). It probably cost around $50 for the wood and stain we purchased to build the raised beds and maybe another...

It might now be a little more expensive at first, but as you continue to garden and develop expertise, it definitely is! I've been gardening for 20 years; the vegetables and herbs work out to be less expensive and more convenient than what I get in the store. Each year I try to come up with ways...

It's June; your annuals are coming along or in pots. Your perennials are growing fast. So why not just sit back and not worry about your flower beds until next spring? There is a good reason not to do this. Now is the time to start perennials and biennials for next year. It is easy, personally rewarding...

I am really late getting my garden started this year. Normally I try to plant around the first or second week of May, but this year we had a frost through the third week of May and it has rained and been too wet to till the ground until now. So my husband and I tilled the ground Monday and Tuesday we...

Hubby has been working on the tiller for the last couple days. First it was a new inner tube for a tire. Then water in the gas line. New Spark Plugs. Now the carburator is kaput! Hubby is very, very mechanical and he can fix all these problems. But the question is when is enough, enough? May be time...

In my e-mail this term, survival garden, popped out at me this week. Well, indeed...what else one would be planting edibles for? But this term seems to be catching on as people turn to growing their own foods to make it through tough times or to lower rising food expenses. I know many of us here have...

Chop or dig up a small area in your yard, sow some seeds, and watch them grow! Belle

This saying is more than just a reminder of good manners for arriving to a destination on time; it is a moto of many a homesteader. Did you know that in the Great Depression, one (1) out of three (3) families were in agriculture. That's 33%! Many people that we know in our area remember growing huge...

I found this book with easy to understand instructions on saving and sowing seed and how to let plants "go to seed". It offers lots of info about what the seed should look like when it is ready to be collected, methods to plant, etc. I started saving seed with the easy plants like marigolds...