What's a girl to do with dreams of lush gardens and very little sun to grow them with?
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This week in the garden
Part one of homesteading is growing your own food, part two is preserving it. Here's what foods are coming out of gardens around Hamilton this week, and what to do with them: Rhubarb To harvest rhubarb pull the stalks off the plant instead of cutting them. Cutting them will invite disease to this hardy perennial. … Continue reading This week in the garden
Building an edible landscape that won’t kill my property value.
Homeowners looking to cut back on costs by growing their own food face a dilemma- how do you build a garden for yourself and maintain curb appeal?
Starting a permaculture forest.
Hamilton's downtown used to be underwater and as a result, we have a specific type of soil that shows up everywhere- clay. Heavy, grey, impossible-to-get-your-foot-out-of-after-a-heavy-rain, no-good-for-growing-anything clay soil. If you want to grow here, you've gotta fix it, and permaculture can offer us the way. In the seven years I've lived in my current house, the … Continue reading Starting a permaculture forest.
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