Living Off Your Country Garden
If the prices at the grocery store are getting to be too much for your budget it is time to start thinking about growing your own in a fresh country garden. Even if you manage a plot through the summer...
View ArticleOrganic Pesticides: Potato Beetle
My potato beetle plague was solved with all organic pesticides. I suppose it wasn’t actually a plague but when that potato beetle pest came into my garden and started multiplying I certainly felt...
View ArticleGrow Raspberries
If you’ve mastered the art of growing your own herbs and vegetables in your country garden and are ready to try your hand at a perennial that keeps on giving for many years a good consideration is to...
View ArticleIndoor Herb Garden
While you’re saving a ton of money by growing your own vegetable garden, you can even save more money by growing your own herbs. The beauty about growing herbs is that you can grow them indoors and all...
View ArticlePlant A Garden
Plant a garden of flowers, herbs, vegetables, shrubs, vines or berries – or a mixture of all. Your plant garden (aka green garden) is a healthy hobby which will bring you a steady food supply, keeps...
View ArticleGrow Organic Herbs
One of the best decisions made since I moved to the country is to grow organic herbs. I don’t know why, but food started tasting better to me since I left the city, largely in part, I believe to having...
View ArticleGrowing Herbs
It is not wise to try every variety on your first foray into growing herbs. Choose four or five hardy varieties of cooking herbs and experiment with different flavors and recipes. Lavender is one of my...
View ArticleCountry Cooking Introduction
Apart from all else I learned once I moved here was how to appreciate good country cooking. I had to learn to make it by my own hand as I no longer could just run to the local restaurant or deli as we...
View ArticleCooking With Fresh Herbs
Country cooks know the value of spices and herbs in baking, broiling, marinating and stews. Food just tastes better with the right seasoning and cooks are less likely to be bored when they have a...
View ArticleProtect A Garden From The Freeze
Here in the north, we’ve already seen snow in the garden. Winter is on it’s way which means it is time to protect the garden from the freeze, namely the most valuable plants for next years growth....
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