Ways to Cool Your Greenhouse in the Summer • The Prairie Homestead
Adding a greenhouse to our homestead was a dream come true. When we first decided it was in our…
Top Reasons For Tomato Leaf Curling • The Prairie Homestead
There is nothing more amazing than harvesting those ruby-red romas or vibrantly colored heirloom tomatoes. Many home-gardeners pride themselves on…
The Best Garden Trio for Building Healthy Soil • The Prairie Homestead
Stillness. As I sat down to write this, I was trying to think of a word to sum up the…
How to Save Tomato Seeds • The Prairie Homestead
Confession: Until very recently, I’ve never really had any interest in saving seeds from my garden. A homesteading lifestyle is…
The Best Mulch for Your Vegetable Garden • The Prairie Homestead
I’ve become a bit of a mulch evangelist. It started with my discovery of Ruth Stout all those years ago…
Why Good Potting Soil is Important (and the Story of My Dead Tomato Seedlings) • The Prairie Homestead
Last spring, I couldn’t get my tomato seedlings to grow. I tried everything. After using multiple different seeds and seed…
How To Plan Out Your Fall Garden • The Prairie Homestead
Most folks assume that once summer is over, then the gardening season is complete. But did you know there is…
The Best Organic Fertilizers for Your Vegetable Garden • The Prairie Homestead
Perfect… Healthy… Well Balanced… Soil… …the kind of soil that encourages disease-free veggie plant growth and produces amazingly high harvest…
Ways to Heat Your Greenhouse in the Winter • The Prairie Homestead
Here in Wyoming, winters can be brutally cold and crazy windy, so choosing the right greenhouse was pretty important. When…