Aloha Everyone, Over the last four years I've been thinking about the most practical ways I could feed myself in the hopefully unlikely event that...
This may be too late for some areas, but the cool evening temperatures and light frosts have gotten me thinking it is time to start protecting my...
So, last weekend, we did "spring forward" (utter foolishness), and this weekend (Sunday) is the official first day of spring. Now if we can just...
Wife is beginning to harvest her fall crop of broccoli from the hoop house. [IMG] [IMG] Got 17 pint packages out of the first cutting. Will get...
Took some pics of our garden today. It's a mess. I had a couple of years where I didn't mess with it due to personal crap that sucked the life out...
Our 2020 gardens are off to a pretty good start. We had said this winter "not gonna plant as much"....well, like most years, that plan didn't...
Hi Monkeys, I have moved to our permanent retreat and looking for survival guidance to get our new location survival ready.... I am looking to...
GREAT BOOK North Carolina Extension Gardener Handbook Table of Contents Soils and Plant Nutrients Composting Botany Insects Diseases and...
Moto tagged me in a thread about edible plants and many thought it would make a great TOTM, so here it is! Here in the PNW, there are wild...
Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and...
The main goal for me in this project was to produce a fertilizer from animal bones I collecting from the food waste. But bacause in order to do so...
Tilling in still too wet soil, and the wife did some covert ops and took pics of me working it in my pajamas. LOL It was kind of almost dry...
Recently in clearing out life expired medications and vitamin supplements I turned up a plastic jar of 180 x life expired (by a couple of months)...
Guerrilla Gardener: Some Thoughts and Observations on Vegetable Food Production (Or, Gardening for Knuckle-Draggers) January 14, 2019 One of the...
No matter what we do, our garden's are going to die! Hopefully we will get enough out of them to either survive or make us feel it worth while to...
Designing and building an earth sheltered solar greenhouse. [IMG]
Two containers emptied. Planted so called peanut potatoes. Container 1. This one had been moved to a new location with more sun exposure. I...
Easy enough for those of us who live in the temperate zones, so anybody do a winter garden and if not how are you laying up your garden for...
"The objectives in the system design are to minimize investment capital and operations costs while concurrently maintaining stable, reliable,...
This edition of How-To Hydroponics has been completely revised from previous printed editions. It is a complete, 102 page guide to assist you in...
A list of the 3 titles included in the .zip file: Composting_For_Dummies.pdf (2010) Home_Composting_Bins.pdf (?)...
... And Natural Insect Repellent Tips. This is one of many files I have received from @Witch Doctor 01. I am quite sure any members here, who do...
Heres some information on some nasties that may be lurking on your selves and could very well end your quest for survival.....
We have a few members on here who have big gardens, @ditch witch, @Radishman and @TnAndy but what about the rest of the monkeys? Gardening is a...
Greetings Fellow Primates: I've never had a root cellar on any property where I resided. So, I know about as close to nothing about them....
Bit cool this morning a 29, but most of our stuff in growing inside right now and has been for a month. Peas are up about 8-10" and beginning to...
We pay between $5-7 per bale in out area unless you have a farm close by. I'm lucky that I have a large farm next door Hay Bale gardening: no...
World Naked Gardening Day is May 6th [IMG] World Naked Gardening Day is an opportunity to pull weeds, plant flowers, and harvest vegetables while...
I have an awesome Black Thumb. I can kill most any plant commonly grown in my area with very little effort on my part. Consider me the ultimate...
Greetings: I have many files that I have collected over past years. Some, I may have acquired from this very site. Regardless of where they were...
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