by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
Try as I might, carrots are not usually a great crop in my garden. They often don’t produce well, or they are small, and sometimes they just don't turn out very tasty. But a few years ago my carrot harvest turned out beautifully! The carrots grew tall and sweet, and I...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
Back in March, I started my garden indoors! I used the super easy Jiffy Seed Starting Trays to plant my seeds. With 72 tiny peat pots in each tray, I’ve found them to work better than anything else I’ve ever used as a starting place for my baby plants. I...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
Root crops are some of the absolute easiest to grow! As I plan out my garden crops each spring, one variety of vegetables that just has to make it onto my list is beets. Homegrown beets are very delicious—but sometimes beets are overlooked, especially if you haven’t...
by Nancy Meissner | Off Grid Garden
Anybody love sweet corn? All hands go up in our family!!! But we live in a colder climate and often there’s just not time in one growing season for the corn to develop and ripen to harvest. I remember one time soon after we moved to the area, I was...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal
It seems like it takes forever for the winter snow to melt from our garden. As I look at the snow-covered plot in the early spring, it almost feels like our garden is a blank canvas, waiting patiently for the artist to come, pick up a brush, and start adding splashes...
