Gardening For Food

Strawberry cage. nothing worse than the birds getting those ripe juicy berries before you do! I have to use a bird net on my fig tree too!

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Create Small Fruit Trees with This Pruning Method. This revolutionary pruning method will give you more fruit growing options, because nearly any deciduous fruit variety can be trained to stay compact. Learn how and when to prune fruit trees so that they’ll thrive, even in small gardens. From MOTHER EARTH NEWS magazine.

A Beginner’s Guide To Growing Broccoli From Seed. Growing broccoli from seed is fun and rewarding. This step-by-step guide will show you where, when, and exactly how to plant broccoli seeds. Includes tips for growing and harvesting broccoli in your garden too!

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Foraging for Chickweed.

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Amaranth/Pigweed is a common weed that is highly nutritious! Use the greens in soups, stir fries, or salads. eat the dried seeds raw or roasted. The seeds are very high protein and have lysine, fiber, and calcium. A single plant can produce 100,000 seeds! The leaves have vitamins A and C, iron, fiber, calcium, and manganese. Amaranth is a highly sustainable food crop because of its drought resistance and fast rate of growth and proliferation.

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Recognized mainly for its burrs, burdock is an interesting biennial plant because it consists primarily of carbohydrates, volatile oils, plant sterols, tannins, and fatty oils. Researchers aren't sure which active ingredients in burdock root are responsible for its healing properties, but this plant may have anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects. In fact, recent studies show that burdock contains phenolic acids, quercetin and luteolin - all are powerful antioxidants.** Michigan. :)

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What you can reasonably grow year round with greenhouses.

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How To Grow Pineberries - Sweet taste just like pineapple…

Here’s What You’ll Need:

pineberry plant
strawberry plant
potting mix
organic fertilizer
small container
window box (optional).

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Pineapple Weed - Foraged Flavor. I used to pick and play with these in elementary school and loved the way they smelled.

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Raspberries or blackberries Just the pic, but great idea for training blackberry bushes.

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Once you try the straw bale gardening method for growing potatoes, you'll never want to use any other method again. A straw bale garden isn't just good for potato growing though. It works for your entire vegetable garden.

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