The Victory Garden- Preserving the Harvest It’s taken a lot of planning and hard work but you did it! Your garden is producing! So take a minute to sit back with a glass of sweet tea and enjoy the fruits of your labor, literally! Next, we’ll talk about preserving your harvest with three different methods….

The Victory Garden – Dealing With Weeds Weeds…it might as well be a four-letter word! Yes, we hate them too! One of the reasons people give up on gardening is because of weeds. It can be discouraging to go through so much planning and work just to have the garden overtaken by the enemy, and…

The Victory Garden- Companion Planting We’ve all heard the phrase, but what exactly is it? Companion planting is a method of gardening where different plants are grown together to enhance each other based on their characteristics. This could be their ability to control pests, provide habitats for beneficial insects, draw in pollinators, improve the soil’s…

The Victory Garden- Dealing with Pests and Encouraging Beneficial Insects and Pollinators You are moving along on the path to food independence, and hopefully by putting into practice all of the steps we have discussed thus far, you are not experiencing too many pest problems but let’s be honest, no garden makes it through the…