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Gardening

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New to Gardening or you just want to learn a new gardening technique? Find all of Little House Living‘s gardening articles here!

Setting Up a Garden

Before You Start a Garden
Buying Seeds
Picking a Spot
Buying Seeds Online
2015 Spring Garden Planning
Starting Garden Plants from Seed
How to Avoid Newbie Fruit Gardener Mistakes
How to Grow An Herb Garden
Growing and Using the Nasturtium Plant
10 Practical Tips for First Time Gardeners
14 Simple Gardening Tips

Gardening on a Budget

Newspaper Seedling Planters
Building a Greenhouse on a Budget
Simple Garden Projects
5 Ways to Save Money Gardening

Other Gardening Tips

Inexpensive Gifts for Gardeners
How to Save Seeds
How to Grow Fresh Produce in the Winter

The Gardening and Preserving Journal is here! If you are gardening or planning on doing any preserving this year, you NEED this wonderful sprial bound journal! Get your own copy here.

 

Other Gardening Articles

Gardening in Small Spaces
Growing Vegetables in Pots
Homemade Bug Spray for Gardens
Homemade Weed Killer
Banana Peel Plant Fertilizer Spray
Introducing Little Ones to Gardening
Planting a Winter Garden
How to Avoid Newbie Fruit Gardener Mistakes
A Peek Inside a Commercial Greenhouse
25 Gardening Books You Should Own

The End of the Gardening Season

How to Make Mulch
How to Save Seeds
Creating a Winter Garden (Container Gardening)

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  1. Jamie Wilson says

    January 15, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Hi! I absolutely love your blog and am a loyal follower :-). A have a very amateur question for you…how many seeds to use!? I’ve read the packets and read blog articles and gardening websites, but I’ll see that onions should be planted 1/4 in. deep. But how many seeds per hole? Crazy question I know, but I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere!

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    • Merissa says

      January 15, 2014 at 12:01 pm

      Most packets will tell you the depth. For seeds per hole it depends on what you are planting…bigger plants like cucumbers and squash I usually do 2-3 seeds per hill, beans I plant one at a time, lettuce just kind of gets tossed into a straight row. What plants are you wondering about in particular?

      Reply
      • Jamie Wilson says

        January 16, 2014 at 4:43 am

        This is our first garden, but we’re thinking of planting lots of tomatoes, various peppers, cucumbers for pickling, onions, and carrots. I’d like to try to grow zucchini as well.

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        • Merissa says

          January 16, 2014 at 7:09 am

          Carrots and onions will get sown in a long row by sprinkling the seeds once at a time. Tomatoes and peppers are usually started indoors (depending on your zone), and cucumbers are usually planted 2-3 seeds per “hill”.

          Reply
  2. Andie says

    February 18, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    I love your blog. I share a lifelong fondness for Laura and her life.

    Here in Arizona, local library branches allow seeds to be checked out. The seed varieties are heirloom and desirable for our specific desert region.
    They are free and last year my daughter, who is autistic, snacked her way around the garden eating radishes, peas and lettuce!

    Reply
  3. Angela says

    February 21, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    I’m starting my first vegetable garden this year. What do you recommend for fertilizer? I’ve started a worm composting bin but I don’t think there will be any compost in time. Also, my worms have been trying to escape so I could be doing something wrong there. Either way, I cannot count on the compost, I’ll have to fertilize another way.

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    • Merissa says

      February 21, 2014 at 4:20 pm

      We always use either chicken or cow manure. This year I don’t have that option so we are going to use fermented fish fertilizer. I found mine at Azure Standard: https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/7316/

      Reply
  4. Janis says

    February 21, 2014 at 4:13 pm

    I love your website, so interesting and affordable!

    Reply
  5. Dawn says

    February 28, 2014 at 2:00 pm

    I love roses but I am not too sure how to care for them ,any advice

    Reply
  6. Michelle Houtz says

    March 24, 2014 at 8:53 am

    I would like to try my hand at gardening some veggies this year and have set aside some green and red pepper seeds. (I saved them and air dried them from the peppers I bought at the grocery store) Would they do well in a container on my porch in full sun? Would they (or another veggie) be easy to grow in a container? I’m short on space but long on ideas to try my hand at something new!

    Reply
    • Merissa says

      March 24, 2014 at 9:19 am

      Peppers are a GREAT plant to grow in a container because they grow so nicely. Tomatoes do very well as well.

      Reply
  7. judy says

    April 4, 2014 at 10:28 am

    I am going to try straw bale gardening for the first time. I have a limited space and don’t want alot of work . I have a large yard, and lots of flowers. So this year is trying to maintain what I have . Looking forward to spring and all it brings. Looking forward to all I will learn and be able to share on here.

    Reply
  8. Aleesha Bake says

    April 24, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    LOVE your site, we’ve been working to get our garden in this week and I have really enjoyed some of your tips- I can’t wait to try the newspaper seedling planters next year!

    Reply
  9. Brenda Webb says

    May 19, 2014 at 10:12 am

    I enjoy learning new ways to use old things. Thanks.

    Reply
  10. kathleen Anderson says

    October 18, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    I am putting leaves around my apple trees on old newsprint and plan to put banana peels and potato peelings son it , too. for Potassium, but I would like to know what I can put on it for Calcium Maybe Meisssa knows….any ideas would be welcomed. Something natural would be nice…. The two trees haven’t fruited as yet…three and four years old. Cortland and Wolf river Thank you kindly.

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    • Merissa says

      October 18, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      I add a bit of crushed eggshells and/or epsoms salts around my plants for added calcium 🙂

      Reply
  11. Kathleen Anderson says

    October 18, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    Thank you so much for your reply Trying to get yard work, raking and fertilizing done…. We live in Upper Michigan and could tell it was snowing in the distance…a little sleet for a few minutes!! It is coming!! Stay warm.

    Reply
    • Merissa says

      October 18, 2014 at 8:23 pm

      Send it this way! I’m ready for the flies and Box Elder bugs to go away!

      Reply
  12. tara says

    September 5, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    I love your blog!! What is the name of your wallpaper at the top of the blog page?

    Reply
  13. Alisah Simmons says

    May 23, 2016 at 11:02 am

    Hello , I have really enjoyed your blog. You really give good info that I love. Thanks for sending updates and keeping me informed. I see that
    you r order your seeds. Do you ever by them from the garden centers at anytime?

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    • Merissa says

      May 23, 2016 at 12:29 pm

      Occasionally if I have a few things that don’t sprout I will buy them from a garden center, but rarely.

      Reply

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