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Optimizing Your Garden and Seeds for Different Seasons

Growing different types of tomatoes is great during summer. Garden for the season!
Optimizing your garden and seeds for different seasons can prove to lucrative. Photo by Annie Lang.

Nature has a course of self-trimming, which means that it can take each plant and tree through an experience of a substantial shift in their living and growth. During the process, some plants may perish, others may survive; the plants that receive the least attention perish first.

Therefore, optimizing your garden and seeds for different seasons is crucial to help your plants to grow more healthily.

Whatever the season, you can always follow a few general strategies to improve your garden.

In this article, we’ll explore everything about those seasonal plants and optimizing tactics for your garden to ultimately achieve the lucrative cash crops.

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How to Grow Plants from Cuttings

How to Grow Plants from Cuttings

The concept of plants growing from seeds is common, but what about the plants that grow from cuttings? Are you familiar with that idea? Do you know how to grow plants from cuttings?

Aside from seeding, cutting is another popular technique for propagating plants. And I bet these plant cuttings can help you propagate your garden plants faster.

Therefore, this article discusses how to grow plants from cuttings and all about their types. So, you can grow a new plant in your garden more quickly and efficiently within months.

Here’s everything you need to know about cuttings.

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What is a Homestead Exemption and how do you apply for it?

Girl enjoying cow company due to Homestead Exemption

Financial hardships can make life more excruciating than it’s already been. Especially if the situation relates to any sensitive issues like facing bankruptcy or losing a spouse, things start to get even more problematic.

It gets tougher to run through the extra tax finances and creditors on demand. And that’s when homestead exemption comes in.

Homestead exemption does not only provide you with home security but a financial shield as well.

Now you may wonder; what is a homestead exemption, why it benefits you, and how to get this work No worries. This article has all the solutions you need.

So, without further ado, let’s get started.

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Ultimate Guide and List: Top Must have Gardening Tools

Top Essentials tools for your Garden

If you are new to gardening, it is important to know what tools you will need in order to have a successful garden. Maintaining your entire garden is hard work!

If you’ve got an interest in gardening it’s very likely you’ll have vegetable gardens, fruit trees, flower beds but also tough weeds giving you a hard time! And it seems like this is a bit of a zero sum game, the more you fight your pesky weeds, the more garden waste you’ll get! Here is where quality tools enter the picture.

This guide will list the top must-have gardening tools for the beginner. With these essential gardening tools, you will be able to maintain healthy and beautiful plants and trees in your garden. Let’s go!

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Bokashi Composting Guide: How to start Bokashi Composting

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If you’re looking for an easy way to start composting, or have a lack of space for a traditional compost, the Bokashi method may be the right choice for you. This guide will show you how to get started with Bokashi composting, including what materials you’ll need and how to set up your system.

What is Bokashi?

Bokashi composting is a very simple composting method that allows you to add kitchen waste, directly into the composter without creating unpleasant odors. Unlike traditional composting, which takes several months to years, Bokashi can process your organic food waste in just 4 weeks!

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Living off grid in Homestead

Beautiful homestead garden

Homesteading is a lifestyle choice that’s grown in popularity over the last few decades. Homesteaders are people who want to live off the land and produce their own food, energy, shelter and goods.

They do this by producing as much of what they need on site as possible or trading for it with others that have excess production capacity.

The homesteader’s goal is sustainability – living with minimal impact on natural resources so we don’t leave a footprint that future generations will regret.

Most people think of rural farmers when they hear the term “homesteader”, but you can be a city slicker too! You just need to make some changes in your life: no more going out to eat each night, fewer trips to the shopping mall and think about making your own food at home.

The next level of homestead is to combine this with an off grid lifestyle. Off grid homesteaders do what we’ve been talking about – producing their own food and energy – but the difference is that they often live in remote areas where it isn’t practical to directly connect to the utility grid. Read on if this is a topic that interests you!

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Why you should grow your own vegetables

Homegrown vegetables in a greenhouse

Growing your own vegetables is a great way to have fresh, healthy food every day without breaking the bank. You can also enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that you are feeding yourself with your very hands!

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