Keeping a Gardening Journal

Homesteading, Organic Gardening

I have kept a gardening journal for about 19 years and I believe it is an indispensable tool for the home gardener as much as for the market gardener. I started keeping a journal for my garden the first year I set my foot on a spade in my tiny flower garden on Shelby...

Organic Gardening: What would you like to know?

Organic Gardening

Photo by Ian Britton at FreeFoto What have you always wanted to know about gardening? What scares you about organic gardening? What aspects of building and maintaining a garden confuse you or keep you from getting started? Have you always wanted to try growing a...

How To Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible

Book Reviews, Organic Gardening

How to Grow More Vegetables and Fruits (and Fruits, Nuts, Berries, Grains, and Other Crops) Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine is the one absolutely positively indispensable gardening book in my library. It is ripped, filthy, filled with...

Growing Seedlings Indoors

Organic Gardening

For the adventurous and the thrifty minded among us growing your plants from seed is the way to go those plants that require a longer growing period or are harder to raise outdoors from seed. In the Nashville area those plants include, but are not limited to,...

Getting Ready for Planting

Organic Gardening

One of the most frustrating things that kept me out of the garden when I first got the gardening bug was missing the planting dates of my favorite foods. It always seemed that I would buy pea seeds and then find that the pea planting time had passed me and no one told...

Where to find heirloom seed potatoes

Organic Gardening

One year, many moons ago, I found some Russian Fingerlings, Yellow Rose and Blue Fin potatoes at Smith and Hawken (when they were a great store with great tools and no Scott “Organic” fertilizers – please, don’t get me started!!) Well, the...