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5 Awesome Tomato Varieties to Grow for Fantastic Homemade Sauces

BySamantha January 5, 2022September 24, 2022

With thousands of tomato varieties on the market, selecting the best options for your garden can seem like a monumental task. Since each variety offers up its own unique set of characteristics, you’ll want to make selections based upon how you plan to put your precious homestead garden bounty to use. If your goal is…

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Summer Management of Potatoes

BySamantha June 2, 2021

Summer Management of Potatoes. From the time that the plants show through the soil, the best thing that you can do for quick and healthy growth, is to use the hoe between the rows every time that the soil is dry enough. The reason for this is that the hoe will keep the weeds in…

The How-To of Rhubarb

BySamantha May 31, 2021

This is a guest post. History: It is not clear where or what is the origin of Rhubarb. There are mentions of Rhubarb in China going back to 2,700 BC, however Rhubarb was also found on the banks of the Volga. Whatever Rhubarb’s source; the plant was used during the times of plague being a…

7 Practical Tips to Make Gardening Easier

BySamantha April 17, 2021April 10, 2021

Gardening is no easy task, especially if you have put quite a lot of effort into it. It won’t take you long before tending to the flower beds, pruning and doing all sorts of other gardening chores starts to feel tiring and overwhelming. The purpose of gardening is to make you feel happy, not super…

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Understanding Garden Terms

BySamantha April 15, 2021April 10, 2021

Do you find yourself confused by terms like: hybrid, genetically modified, heirloom, open-pollinated, heritage and microsystem? In this article we will go over some basics that will help clear up some of the confusion. First, let’s look at the difference between a microsystem and an ecosystem. To gardeners an ecosystem would be used to describe…

Planting Potatoes

BySamantha April 1, 2021March 31, 2021

This is a guest post. If you would like to guest post on Just Dabbling Along, CLICK HERE. April is, of course, the best month to plant potatoes, and the main crop should be in the ground from between the 1st of April and the middle of May. I always put mine in the ground…

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Why Are Earthworms Good For My Garden?

BySamantha March 26, 2021April 7, 2021

Notice the lowly earthworm, squirming away, going about its everyday business. Simple creatures you may think but they have quite a important use in the garden. Did you know the earthworms are nature’s first gardeners? They don’t exist just for kids to eat and fishermen to use as bait 🙂 Some Basic Earthworm Facts Earthworms…

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10 Plants You Can Grow with Kids in Containers

BySamantha March 4, 2021February 28, 2021

So you want to grow a garden with your kids, but you don’t have a yard to do it in. That means you will need to grow things in containers. But what grows well in containers that’s simple and something kids will enjoy? Simply put, pretty much any vegetable or herb will grow well in…

In the Homestead Garden ~ May 2020

BySamantha June 20, 2020April 10, 2021

Another year of gardening has begun! Well, I guess it has been going for a while, this is just the first chance I’ve had to write about it and share a garden photo tour. What a crazy year this has been so far! Let me start by first saying that I feel so very lucky…

The Secrets to Growing Big Healthy Pumpkins

BySamantha March 27, 2019March 28, 2021

Growing your own pumpkins is really good fun. Watching the vines grow, flowers blossom and tiny little pumpkins form is really exciting. They require between 6 to 8 hours of sunlight a day, rich soil improved with compost and lots of space or something to climb on. They are extremely easy to grow and can…