by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
This is the time of year every gardener or anyone who loves to eat fresh garden produce looks forward to! The tiny seeds you planted in the soil months ago are now large plants with home grown food ready to harvest and enjoy; fruit trees are loaded with ripening...
by Nancy Meissner | Nancy's Journal, Off Grid Garden
What is the overwhelming plague that inevitably comes along with a wonderfully healthy growing garden?? You know the answer without a doubt—it’s those horrible, thick, fast-growing weeds! Now—would you like to know a secret to getting rid of most of those weeds? Six...
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...
