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How to Successfully Plant Onion Seed Indoors in Winter
January is the month my fingers get itching to plant onion seed. Luckily there are a few things you can plant by seed as early as January here in the PNW, even earlier in milder parts. In this post, I will teach you how I plant onion seed indoors. It is usually the first thing […]
Sprouting Seed Potatoes Before Planting
How and why chitting or sprouting seed potatoes is essential before you plant them (hint: you’ll get a faster harvest and bigger yields, which sound like pretty good reasons to me!) Spring is almost here! There’s only one more month to go until it’s meteorological spring, and for many gardeners it will be game on! […]
10 Ways To Find Balance On The Homestead
Balancing life on the homestead is not easy, but it doesn’t have to be impossible. I’ll be the first to admit that I have struggled with balance almost my entire adult life. Once our family started to grow and we started to live out the lifestyle that our grandparents had taught us, the task of […]
How to Plant Onion Seedlings
This article will teach you how to plant onion seedlings for a healthy robust onion harvest in late summer. To learn how to grow your own onion seedlings, please see my How to Plant Onion Seed article from my Seed Starting 101 Series. In that article I discuss the pros and cons of planting onions […]
Planning For Spring On The Homestead
Spring is right around the corner! It is time to start garden planning, seed starting, and deciding what major projects are going to get worked on this year. Although the temps have plummeted lately, it is never too early to begin the planning process. We’ve had temps in the 60s the last few days here […]
