Hedging with Heirloom Okra

  Have you ever walked into the grocery store and eyed a lightly colored tomato that looked light orange, pink, yellow or tricolored? Those are heirloom tomatoes and they are sold in the produce section for $5.99 a pound and up! It is crazy to think how many people actually buy them, especially when you consider the price of a normal hot house or Roma tomato. While heirloom tomatoes were around before the 1940’s, the types you often find in grocery stores are the commercially created

Trying to grow a more self-sufficient garden? Learning how to save your own seeds is one of the easiest ways to have a more sustainable garden. It’s also a great way to preserve seeds from varieties of crops you really enjoyed. Learn how to save okra seeds from this year’s harvest to use for years to come! Why Save Garden Seeds First, why should you even care about saving okra seeds or other garden seeds? Isn’t half the fun of gardening choosing new seeds each winter

Wood chips can be incredibly helpful in the garden, provided they’re used correctly. Years ago I was walking the grounds of Dacres, and my friends there were showing off their progress.  Dacres is a permaculture demonstration farm in New Hampshire and the test site for all the ideas described in the book The Community-Scale Permaculture Farm.  It’s been just a few months since my last visit, but they’d transformed whole fields into productive ecosystems. As Josh des

Dress your yard with the classic beauty of roses. New types of roses trade fussy growing techniques for easy-does-it culture that makes it a snap to incorporate these floral favorites into landscape settings. Uses for Roses As you consider tucking roses into your yard, think of them as players in the garden chorus – not soloists. Use them to interject season-long color into a perennial bed, pairing them with colorful companion plantings. Roses can interject color into perennial be