Gardening 101: Companion Planting

“Mother Nature is awfully ingenious; she has come up with quite a few methods to keep bugs away and plants healthy and thriving.

It turns out that plants, like people, prefer certain company.

You can help keep your vegetables happy and pest-free by planting them near their buddies!

This simple method maximizes certain plants’ natural strengths and minimizes their weaknesses, giving you a beautiful garden and abundant crops!

Some of the combinations make sense, like tomatoes and basil; others might surprise you…”

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Self Sufficient Backyard

In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...

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