Tag: self sufficiency
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The Good Neighbors: A Beginner’s Guide to Companion Planting
Gardens, it turns out, have a social life. The way we tend to picture a vegetable garden: tidy rows, one crop per bed, everything in its place, is actually a fairly recent and very human invention. Left to themselves, plants grow in communities. They share resources, signal to each other, attract or repel insects, and…
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Photo time
did a quick water of the grow areas and took pictures as I went for here and my garden journal. Next month is supposed to bring us back to cold and snow. Will see how this all works out! spring peas. hard to tell but these plants are nearly a foot tall this is my…
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The Mini-Greenhouse
Upon unzipping the door, I was hit by a wave of heat akin to something out of Spain or Greece. Whatever’s in here is in serious need of attention. So the only green thing I can see is some sorely neglected poached eggplant flowers. I need to find them a home, ASAP. I’m going to…
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My Failures
Hi all! Now this post is going to highlight how easy it is to fail or make mistakes with gardening. You see the cardboard egg case? That was meant to be to help aubergine seeds start to grow. The problem? I didn’t put them in a supportive tray. When the rain came, the whole thing…
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First Thing’s First: Water
Morning all! How goes it? The first thing I want to talk about is water. Now, I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that every time I’ve used tap water my plants have hated it. Really, truly, thoroughly hated it. They’ll die, or they won’t bother to grow at all. It’s horrendous. I hate…
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First Proper Post!
Hi everyone! Now this is exciting! I’m Sam, a lass who likes to blend prepping with a little hedge-witchery. If that sounds a wee bit too eccentric, I can sum it up simply as: I love nature, and I love learning about what I can do with it. So, these first few posts are going…
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The Garden Journal
In this book, I write all of my findings and discoveries made in nature. I write about different plants, fungi and bugs, where to find them, how to process them, and what dangers they may have. I write about their uses and various recipes one can try for each and every one. This book, I…
