As the temperature gets colder and the days shorter, the idea of garden planning seems a flimsy manner to spend...
Archive for category: Garden Planning
A Vegetable You Love, But Shouldn’t Bother Growing
What we love to eat doesn’t always translate to what we can grow in our backyard gardening spaces. One vegetable...
An Easy Way to Help Save The Bees
Over the last decade, concerns over Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and the overall health and wellness of the bee population...
Interested in Seed Saving? Start Here
Seed saving is a fun hobby which will help you preserve a plant you’ve enjoyed growing (and eating). Tomatoes, beans,...
The Right Way to Prepare Your Raised Garden Bed
Building a raised garden bed that will provide you a healthy and abundant harvest isn’t hard, but it does take...
Small Space Gardening: The Three Sisters Garden Technique
At Weekend Farmer our goal is to help you make the most out of your limited space, we call it...
Seven Cool Season Vegetables To Grow for Fall Harvest
In the heat of summer, the last thing that comes to mind for most growers is starting new vegetables. Baby...
Companion Planting Ideas That Work Well in Small Spaces
To some, companion planting is a form of voodoo, a mythical power that can’t be explained and is therefore worthy...
A Simple Plan For Deciding What Food You Should Grow
The main challenge of growing your own food isn’t related to technical skills, the time required or the energy expelled...
How To Decide What to Grow in Your Backyard Garden
As the January doldrums pass through in 31 achingly long days, February appears and calls out to the merry lot...