Backyard Gardening to Save Money

It’s a gorgeous pre-spring day, just over 70 degrees here in Chesapeake, Virginia. I took to the opportunity to get some seeds in the ground for fast-growing cool weather crops. Realistically some of these could have been planted a few weeks ago, but I really don’t like working outside in the cold. I cleared out…

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Growing Potatoes at Home

blurry photo of spuds growing in my garden

My spring garden is thriving, even the potatoes I planted, which were actually sprouted ones I “re-purposed”. I’d already read a bit about growing spuds and the need to continue mounding the soil around the stems as they grew up, but I still had questions. A quick google search, and I found: How to plant…

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