This is a place to to find or share great tips for getting plants to grow better, composting, organic pest control, ways to cook from a garden and inspiration to get growing.
- Contents
- Intro - A passion for the freshest herbs, fruit and veg
- Fresh Lenses about Fresh Veg!
- Featured Food Growing Lenses
- Fruit
- Strawberries
- Growing Vegetables
- Growing Tomatoes
- Upside down tomatoes
- Other Edible Plants
- Build Stuff For your plants
- Finding Seeds To Plant
- Current Poll - Do you swap seeds?
- Dont forget the herbs and greens
- Featured Herb and Spice Growing Lenses
- Pest Control
- Sustainable Gardening
- Getting Good Soil
- Favourite food growing gear
- Featured Growing Techniques Lenses
- Nuts And Edible Seeds
- Tools
- Fungi
- Gardening At Scale
- Food growing websites - add yours here.
- Would you like to join this group? READ THESE RULES!
- Freshest Lensmasters
- Featured Food Growers - our favourite lensmasters./a>
- General Group Discussion - talk about anything related here.
- Previous Poll - Do you keep records on your patch?
- Record keeping discussion
- Gardening Book Buying Guides
- Recipes
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How To Plant Vegetables Indoors
Learn how to plant vegetables indoors if you want more...1 point
Square Foot Gardening
Square Foot Gardening is a simplified method of g more...1 point
Homemade Vegetable Soup
As a kid, I used to love my mother's homemade ve more...0 points
How to Start a Vegetable Garden
Do you want to learn how to start a vegetable gard more...0 points
Stuffed Mirlitons and More New Orleans Recipes
Is a Mirliton an instrument, a dance movement or v more...0 points
Houseplants and Their Benefits
Do you love having houseplants in your home? If yo more...0 points
HERBAL TEA RECIPES - make your own delicious herbal tea for keeping healthy and even to cure what ails you!
GREEN TEA and other herbal varieties have healthif more...0 points
What Are Nightshade Plants?
The mere words "Nightshade Plant" bring more...0 points
Favorite Wild Fruits
Ever since we were children, we have loved the fru more...0 points
How To Trim Tomato Plants
This article should give a good idea on "how more...0 points
Topsy Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter
The Topsy Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter has cau more...0 points
How To Grow Your Own Chillies
Learn all about chilies, why they can be fiendishl more...0 points
Build a row cover
Row covers are easy to build, basically you create more...0 points
Cooking with Dandelions
Put that stubborn backyard weed to better use... o more...0 points
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HYDROPONICS
Everyone knows that land is becoming less every da more...0 points
Start a profitable Gardening business
Goal: To ;live off the land; and produce a great i more...0 points
How To Grow Your Own Supply Of Broccoli Sprouts In 6 Days
I've enjoyed sprouts for many years. They weren't more...0 points
How To Grow Fruit Trees At Home
There's nothing better than growing your own Fruit more...0 points
How Often Should Tomato Plants Be Watered?
If your asking the question "How often should more...0 points
Sustainable Gardening Non-Profit changing the world one garden at a time.
The Food for Everyone Foundation is a Non-Profit o more...0 points
Short Stories: Squirrels
Squirrels are a very special kind of creature. Th more...0 points
The Best Apple
Fruits are a healthy snack, a tasty addition to more...0 points
Please Eat the Wild Flowers
For centuries, people have been eating wild flower more...0 points
How to Grow Sunflowers
Love sunflowers? Me too! The sunflower is a fascin more...0 points
Organic Slug Control for Your Garden
Slugs are ugly, worm like garden pests that thrive more...0 points
GROWING ORGANIC TOMATOES
Most gardeners grow at least one variety of tomato more...0 points
Growing Strawberries | Grow Strawberries | How to grow Strawberries
Summer wouldn't be complete without a bowl of fres more...0 points
How Much Sun Do Tomato Plants Need?
It's always tough to say how much sun tomato plant more...0 points
Growing Garlic & Alliums
Two things made me interested in growing my own ga more...0 points
Preserving your Vegetable crops
Everyone should be working to save your harvest, e more...0 points
Growlights how to start plants indoors
Starting seedlings using Grow Lights in a protecte more...0 points
How to make a propagator to start your seeds
A seed propagator can give seeds a really good str more...0 points
Dr. Jacob Mittleider
Jacob spent decades traveling around the world tea more...0 points
Sustainable Gardening a la Rabbit Hill
When Robert Lawson wrote and illustrated Rabbit Hi more...0 points
Sweet Banana Peppers
The Banana pepper is excellent for frying, stuffin more...0 points
Stalking the Wild Greens
All of our Mamas told us to eat our greens. They k more...0 points
GROW MOREL MUSHROOMS
Growing morel mushrooms is possible but sometimes more...0 points
Exactly How Nutritious Is Iceberg Lettuce
A century ago Iceberg lettuce was the leading lett more...0 points
FALSE MOREL MUSHROOMS
When talking about poisonous mushrooms, it is norm more...0 points
Heirloom seeds
I just started getting into Heirloom Seeds, this y more...0 points
Natural, Organic Soil Improvement
Its Springtime! Time to get the Garden started. Th more...0 points
Tomato Plant Care and Feeding
There are a lot of questions to answer about how t more...0 points
Planting Grape Vines - How to Plant Grape Vines Correctly
It's all about giving the best possible founda more...0 points
How To Grow Tomatoes | Tomato Growing Tips
Read this page if you would like some step-by-step more...0 points
Growing Grapes - How to Grow Large & Juicy Grapes Year After Year
Getting highly productive grape vines that produce more...0 points
Vertical Farming
Vertical farming is a proposal to build high rise more...0 points
The Upside Down Tomato Garden
I love garden grown tomatoes. My time for garden more...0 points
Soil Compost Bin Gardening Must Knows
Why Should You Create Soil Compost When Gardening more...0 points
The Many Uses for the Sunflower Plant
Sunflower seeds are used today as bird food, a nut more...0 points
As Seen On TV: The Topsy Turvy Hanging Tomato Planter
Summertime means fresh tomatoes... particularly th more...0 points
All about Mangos
Because mangos are my favorite, and now I'm on a m more...0 points
CREATE ORGANIC SOIL, IMPROVE SOIL QUALITY.
An incredible diversity of organisms live in soil, more...0 points
Growing garlic
This magic little root/bulb adds flavor to over 70 more...0 points
Tiny Tomatoes
Tiny tomatoes are delicious and easy to grow in th more...0 points
Growing Strawberries In Containers - Strawberry Planters
Growing Strawberries In Containers. A strawberry i more...0 points
Chicken Coop Designs - Chicken Coop Plans
Chickens are one of the easiest forms of livestock more...0 points
Grow Your Own Thyme
There are many advantages to growing your own Thym more...0 points
5 Facts you should know about the Worlds Best Compost
So you may have heard a lot of news and hype about more...0 points
HOWTO: Self watering plant pot experiment
A year or so ago, I realised that I could not alwa more...0 points
GO GREEN-COMPOST
It doesn't matter if you live in an apartment or a more...0 points
Deer, Gophers, Squirrels, Crows, Rabbits Or Other Wildlife In The Garden?
It happens. Creatures and critters of all shapes a more...0 points
How to Grow a Grape Vine - How You Can Grow Delicious Grapes Every Year
Getting large and juicy grape berries is very dif more...0 points
CREDIT CRUNCH GARDENING TIPS
As the recession bites deeper and we head towards more...0 points
Can I Grow Cherry Tomatoes In A Container
I often hear the question "Can I grow cherry more...0 points
How To Freeze Rhubarb
Rhubarb is a large leafed plant with edible stalks more...0 points
How to Grow Grapes From Seeds - Are Seeds The Right Choice For Growing Grapes?
So you want to know how to grow grapes from seeds more...0 points
Micro Water Irrigation System
For many people growing tomatoes, the biggest prob more...0 points
The Best Garden Tiller - Choose America's Favorite
Garden tillers can make anyone a great gardener. I more...0 points
How To Grow and Use Herbs
Herbs are one of my favorite things to grow. Varie more...0 points
Growing tomatoes (and other stuff)
There is little as satisfying as eating food you h more...0 points
Growing Tomato Plants | Grow Tomato | Garden Tomatoes
Growing tomatoes is especially rewarding, since th more...0 points
Worlds Best Compost - What is it and How can I make it?
Are you looking for a recipe to make the Worlds Be more...0 points
Dad Said No Allowance So I Started My Own Business
"They're selling middle school yearbooks for more...0 points
Home Herb Garden | Herb Garden Information
Image your own mini herb garden, filled with fresh more...0 points
6 Secrets about the Worlds Best Compost
If you not already using the worlds best compost more...0 points
Arctic Beauty Kiwis
The Arctic Beauty Kiwi is a native of Russia. The more...0 points
How to Grow Juicy Tasty Tomatoes
Are you tired of going to the supermarket and not more...0 points
White Alpine Strawberries
In the spring of 2008, I planted white alpine stra more...0 points
Organic Food Plant Pest and Parasite control
Pest control can be interesting in a totally organ more...0 points
Organic Vegetable Gardening
With food and gas prices steadily increasing, inco more...0 points
Saving Native and Other Plant Seeds
Saving seeds from your favorite plants is an easy more...0 points
I Love Winter Gardening!
This Lens provides you with information and resour more...0 points
Square Foot Gardening
There is nothing better than picking a red ripe to more...0 points
3-Step Recession Gardening
During both World Wars, Americans opted to support more...0 points
Grow Grapes for Wine - How to Grow Delicious Grapes for Wine Making
The procedure to grow grapes for wine are a bit d more...0 points
Planning your garden
Many people arrive at the end of the gardening sea more...0 points
Tomato Disease Identification
Tomato disease identification is not especially ea more...0 points
How sustainable is your landscape?
"Sustainability, Green Living, growing your o more...0 points
Gardening For the Planet
Local gardens are a perfect solution to solving ma more...0 points
The grafted grapevine Nursery
For any home grower or vineyard owner; the only pl more...0 points
How To Find Discount Gardening Supplies
Gardeners follow their passion, and gardening is a more...0 points
#1 Organic Garden Tip Guarantees Gardening Success
My top organic garden tip will clearly determine y more...0 points
A Beginner's Manual To Organic Food Gardening
"Here's The Ultimate, 'Take-You-By-The-Hand' more...0 points
Windowsill Herb Garden
If what's keeping you from having your own he more...0 points
Container Herb Gardening
Herb gardening doesn't require a great deal of spa more...0 points
How To Create A Decorative Vegetable Garden
Growing your own vegetables is a great way to supp more...0 points
Guerrilla gardening
Guerrilla Gardening is a form of direct nonviolent more...0 points
All about growing food Headquarters
Are you growing fruit, vegetables or herbs that yo more...0 points
A passion for the freshest herbs, fruit and veg
Some of us love to eat our own fruit. Think of it - never been canned, frozen, cooled, packed, transported. You have picked it right off the vine, stalk or whatever and can eat it yourself.
You know how organic it is or not - for real, you know which soil you have used, how much sunlight it has, and probably have a good idea of the variety. You know or are learning what conditions make it sweeter or more pungent.
Nothing quite seems quite as satisfactory as food you have grown yourself, it inspires pride and tastes good (usually).
This group is for you. Share your experiences - be they success or failure. We can all learn to be better food growers. Perhaps one day there will be a Squidoo food growers market!
Fresh Lenses about Fresh Veg!
Here in the growing food group, we like our lenses as fresh and organic as our food. Keep them coming, keep them updated!
Featured Food Growing Lenses
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Stalking the Wild Greens
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All of our Mamas told us to eat our greens. They knew how nutritious greens can be and wild greens like dandelion and chickweed are filled with vitamins and minerals. These so-called "weeds" have been eaten in other countries for years. Instead of s...
Fruit
Fruit that has come straight from the garden or orchard is one of life's great joys. They also make for some very colourful plants.-
All about Mangos
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Because mangos are my favorite, and now I'm on a mission to find out everything I possibly can about this fruit. Mango drinks, recipes, artwork and books. How do you pick a good one and am I doing all I can to care for the tree? All things I've got t...
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Favorite Wild Fruits
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Ever since we were children, we have loved the fruit of native plants. Now, with the Green movement and the increased use of native plants in landscaping and sustainable gardens, those delicious fruits are available to more people. This lens provides...
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The Best Apple
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Fruits are a healthy snack, a tasty addition to salads and other dishes, and often make wonderful desserts and sauces. Apples are one of the most popular fruits in this part of the world and easier to select than many other types of fruit to assure...
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Arctic Beauty Kiwis
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The Arctic Beauty Kiwi is a native of Russia. The most hardy of all kiwi vines, it is able to withstand temperatures of -40 degrees, and thrives from Canada to Florida. It's vibrant shades of hot pink, white and jade colored leaves make it a perfect...
Strawberries
While Tomatoes are popular for veg growers (although they are technically fruit too!), strawberries are popular for fruit growers. And also they are one of my favourite foods.-
White Alpine Strawberries
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In the spring of 2008, I planted white alpine strawberries in my garden. This lens will tell you more about this special varietal and share my experiences with this delicious fruit! These berries have some distinct differences from regular strawberri...
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Growing Strawberries In Containers - Strawberry Planters
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Growing Strawberries In Containers. A strawberry is an edible fruit of the low perennial herbs of the family Rosaceae. Strawberries have become an important and widely distributed crop on farms and in home gardens with garden strawberries being a com...
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Growing Strawberries | Grow Strawberries | How to grow Strawberries
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Summer wouldn't be complete without a bowl of fresh strawberries and cream! Growing your own strawberries ensures you can enjoy the fruit at its most fresh and tasty. Strawberries are an easy to grow fruit crop that will reward the home gardener wit...
Growing Vegetables
Thinking about growing your own vegetables? Try these for some great tips on them.-
How to Start a Vegetable Garden
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Do you want to learn how to start a vegetable garden? This is a collection of the best vegetable gardening tips from my site, Fresh Cooking From Your Garden. It includes everything you need to know to grow your own garden&nb...
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How To Plant Vegetables Indoors
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Learn how to plant vegetables indoors if you want the taste and benefits from eating fresh vegetables, but don't have the outdoor garden space to grow them. Let me tell you how easy it is to plant vegetables, indoors! You can grow fresh tomatoes, let...
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Growing Garlic & Alliums
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Two things made me interested in growing my own garlic. The first was trying lots of varieties at the farmer's market and realizing different types of garlic could be really different. The second thing that made me interested in growing my own garlic...
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Growing garlic
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This magic little root/bulb adds flavor to over 70% of the worlds meals.; Garlic is super easy to grow lets find out how:) Plant your garlic clove (not the whole bulb) pointy end UP about two inches deep and two inches apart, you can grow garlic darn...
Growing Tomatoes
Tomatoes are particular popular among food growers, including the Groupmaster. So much so that they need their own section.-
Growing tomatoes (and other stuff)
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There is little as satisfying as eating food you have grown yourself. I will admit, my wife usually cooks with it, but I have all the pleasure of growing it. Sure, a couple of non-food plants make the list (like the carnivorous ones that keep away pe...
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Growing Tomato Plants | Grow Tomato | Garden Tomatoes
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Growing tomatoes is especially rewarding, since they are among the top 20 healthy foods. You can grow cherry tomatoes, which make a great healthy snack - pop 'em in your mouth like candy. Growing garden tomatoes is one of the most rewarding activitie...
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How To Grow Tomatoes | Tomato Growing Tips
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Read this page if you would like some step-by-step advice and tips on how to grow tomatoes that you can use to help you substantially increase your crop's health and yield. Not only that - your tomatoes will have more flavor and be a lot sweeter than...
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GROWING ORGANIC TOMATOES
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Most gardeners grow at least one variety of tomatoes and there as many reasons for this as the people that grow them. However there are certain characteristics that they all share they understand that growing, harvesting, cooking, eating and sharing...
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Tiny Tomatoes
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Tiny tomatoes are delicious and easy to grow in the home garden,even for beginners. Cherry,grape,pear and currant tomatoes are named for their resemblance to other fruits and for their sweet flavor. Many people who don't like regular tomatoes lov...
Upside down tomatoes
These tomato planters are also a popular topic right now.-
The Upside Down Tomato Garden
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I love garden grown tomatoes. My time for gardening however is limited. Time to till, dig, stake, weed, and assure a pest free garden is hard to find in my household. On the other hand I have little use for the tomatoes you find at the grocery. You...
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As Seen On TV: The Topsy Turvy Hanging Tomato Planter
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Summertime means fresh tomatoes... particularly the home-grown variety. Like many home gardeners, I've been growing my own tomatoes for years. This season I've decided to try the Topsy Turvy upside-down tomato planter. The Topsy Turvy was invented by...
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Topsy Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter
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The Topsy Turvy Upside Down Tomato Planter has caused quite a buzz in the gardening community with it's promise to make tomato gardening easy. They claim that by growing your tomato plants upside down that you can get rid of many of the problems asso...
Other Edible Plants
There are plants you may not have thought of as edible but are, and as well as nutritious and free, are also quite tasty.-
Cooking with Dandelions
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Put that stubborn backyard weed to better use... on your dinner table! Dandelions can be a yummy addition to a fresh salad, or can even be used to make a coffee-like drink. They also can be used in soups and as their own side dish.
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Please Eat the Wild Flowers
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For centuries, people have been eating wild flowers and plants. There are so many tasty buds out there, free for the taking, if you know what to look for. I've included some of our favorite edible wild flowers and plants with descriptions, photograph...
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Stalking the Wild Greens
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All of our Mamas told us to eat our greens. They knew how nutritious greens can be and wild greens like dandelion and chickweed are filled with vitamins and minerals. These so-called "weeds" have been eaten in other countries for years. Instead of s...
Build Stuff For your plants
Building your own gear can get you better results and save you money. These How to lenses will help you build it.-
Micro Water Irrigation System
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For many people growing tomatoes, the biggest problem they face is establishing an effective plant watering system. Whether that is due to a busy lifestyle, being a little forgetful or just plain can't be bothered to go out and water the plants a reg...
Finding Seeds To Plant
An important topic for gardeners. Where do you get seeds? How do you guarantee the cultivars you want?-
Saving Native and Other Plant Seeds
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Saving seeds from your favorite plants is an easy and economical thing to do. Whether it be native plants, pass-along flowers or heirloom vegetables, when you harvest and store seeds, you know that you are perpetuating a species of plant that might h...
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Heirloom seeds
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I just started getting into Heirloom Seeds, this year I will harvest tomato, melon, pepper and cucumber seeds.; ;The basic way to harvest seeds from a tomato is to scoop the seeds out put them in a 1/4 cup of water and let them sit for a few days. At...
Do you swap seeds?
Seeds are the lifeblood of a food grower. You may keep the seeds from your last crop, grab them from supermarket veg, buy them in a DIY/garden store or even get them given to you for free.
Have you ever considered seed swapping? Where you have some veg/herbs, a friend or neighbour has some others, swapping seeds means you get more variety and choice for less.
This weeks poll - have you swapped seeds, or will you consider it?
Anything else to say on swapping seeds?
Perhaps you have more to say on the subject. What are your seed swapping experiences? If you have a lens or site on seed swapping, drop us a line!
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Note - the main group discussion board is below - this is for discussion of this weeks poll only.
Dont forget the herbs and greens
Do not forget that humble mint is a superb condiment, especially minced with vinegar. I also love pea tops, they make a great soup.
Do you have other stuff you grow that you eat?
Also - recipes from your own garden make for good lenses to add to this group!
Featured Herb and Spice Growing Lenses
Our great lenses on growing herbs and spices.-
Sweet Banana Peppers
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The Banana pepper is excellent for frying, stuffing and even eating fresh off the plant; This is an all around favorite; I like to stuff mine with a cheese or rice mixture, then just pop them in the oven for 15-20 minutes and add some hot sauce and y...
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Grow Your Own Thyme
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There are many advantages to growing your own Thyme. -Spice up your meal with freshly picked thyme. -Adding fresh herbs to your food improves your diet vs. adding salt for flavor. -Growing your own thyme gives you a sense of satisfaction that you...
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Dad Said No Allowance So I Started My Own Business
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"They're selling middle school yearbooks for $17. Can I buy one," I asked my Mom. I had hoped to get a yearbook without having to fork over my own hard earned cash. "We'll talk to your Dad," Mom said. A couple of days later my Dad wanted to talk a...
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How To Grow Your Own Chillies
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Learn all about chilies, why they can be fiendishly hot and how easy it is to grow them for yourself. I've been growing various varieties for the last three years, and it's a fun hobby - one where you get to eat the results later on! I've mainly gro...
Pest Control
Pests will always be a major problem faced by many gardeners. Preventing them, or dealing with them, especially when talking food and trying to keep it organic, is a very important topic.-
Organic Slug Control for Your Garden
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Slugs are ugly, worm like garden pests that thrive and multiply in moist soil. If you live in a region that gets a lot of rain or have a hill behind your property, your pretty likely to get slugs in your yard or garden. If you do have a slug problem...
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Organic Food Plant Pest and Parasite control
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Pest control can be interesting in a totally organic, primarily edible and indoor garden. While as a last resort I may turn to non-organic methods, so far I have kept away from them. In this page are descriptions of common pests, parasites, infectio...
Sustainable Gardening
Gardens may look green, but how environmentally friendly are they?How are you able to keep gardening during the difficult financial times?
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Sustainable Gardening a la Rabbit Hill
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When Robert Lawson wrote and illustrated Rabbit Hill over 60 years ago he was ahead of his time in the way he felt about sharing his part of this earth with the indigenous animals. For years, we have been using many of the gardening "techniques" that...
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CREDIT CRUNCH GARDENING TIPS
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As the recession bites deeper and we head towards a full blown depression people are looking for more and more ways to save money and literally make sure they can put food on the table for their families.For many of us if not all of us this recession...
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How sustainable is your landscape?
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"Sustainability, Green Living, growing your own produce", we hear these words more and more as prices soar and the economy plummets. But how many people really do any of it? Do the city dwellers have little patio or balcony gardens. Are the suburbani...
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3-Step Recession Gardening
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During both World Wars, Americans opted to support their country by turning unused yard space into a garden spot so they could plant much-needed fruits and vegetables. Because we face an economic turn-down today that stems from over-dependence on for...
Getting Good Soil
Good soil is key to a garden, especially if you are going organic.-
CREATE ORGANIC SOIL, IMPROVE SOIL QUALITY.
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An incredible diversity of organisms live in soil, from single celled bacteria, algae, fungi, and protozoa, to the nematodes and micro-arthropods, to earthworms, insects, small vertebrates, and plant life. All these organisms grow, eat and crucially...
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Soil Compost Bin Gardening Must Knows
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Why Should You Create Soil Compost When Gardening Using Compost Bins & Compost Tumblers? Compost Definition: Compost is the product of the decomposition of organic matter. Organic matter includes garden waste, kitchen scraps, manure, leaves, gra...
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5 Facts you should know about the Worlds Best Compost
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So you may have heard a lot of news and hype about the Worlds Best Compost but you want to know that facts. You have questions and are unsure if this is all marketing hype or if this is real. I can assure you that this is no hype and no fuss. The w...
Favourite food growing gear
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PLUS PACK - 8000+ Seeds-Carrot Danvers Half Long-Veggie
Carrot - Danvers Half Long! Description: Very swee more...0 points
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Straight Eight Cucumber 400 Seeds - Plus Pack Savings!
Straight Eight Cucumber Cucumis sativus 8 in. more...0 points
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Organic Mesclun Salad Mix 600 Seeds - Harvest Daily!
Unusual greens (Arugula, Osaka Purple Mustard Gree more...0 points
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Sugar Snap Peas 125+ Seeds -Super Sweet - Plus Pack
Representing a new generation of garden peas, Suga more...0 points
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Blue Lake Pole Bean - 100+ Seeds - PLUS PACK SAVINGS
Extra Early Pods are Stringless and Fiberless! Whi more...0 points
Featured Growing Techniques Lenses
When you are planning a garden, or wanting to get the best of it, these should help a little.-
Square Foot Gardening
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There is nothing better than picking a red ripe tomato or fresh herb from your square foot garden. No need for pesticides because companion plantings like marigolds, keep the pests away. No hassle weeding. Just use two fingers to pluck them out. Wat...
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Planning your garden
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Many people arrive at the end of the gardening season and wish they planned their vegetable garden better. Often there is wasted space, and sometimes we have grown things that were not used, and perhaps couldn’t even be given away. The key is th...
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Growlights how to start plants indoors
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Starting seedlings using Grow Lights in a protected environment is a great way to extend your growing season - if you do it right.; Let's review the steps required, to assure your highest chance for success, since it can mean your eating out of y...
Nuts And Edible Seeds
Another favourite to eat are nuts and seeds - the seeds you eat more than grow.-
The Many Uses for the Sunflower Plant
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Sunflower seeds are used today as bird food, a nutritious snack, cooking oil, medicine, paint, animal feed, The sunflower plant is used for biodiesel and as an inexpensive and effective means of cleaning toxins from the environment. The sunflower is...
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How to Grow Sunflowers
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Love sunflowers? Me too! The sunflower is a fascinating, nutritious, and easy to grow flower. Its a fast growing giant among flowers. In just 8 weeks, the sunflower grows from a tiny seed in the ground to a towering, 10 foot tall flower! Sunflowers d...
Tools
Things to make your life as a gardener/food grower easier.-
The Best Garden Tiller - Choose America's Favorite
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Garden tillers can make anyone a great gardener. If you're new to gardening you might be wondering how using a garden tiller can help. Well first of all, they take all the hard back braking work out of gardening. If you try to plant a garden without...
Fungi
Fungi are the darker, damper side of food growing. There are many interesting flavours to be had, but make sure you know exactly what you are doing as the wrong ones are deadly!-
FALSE MOREL MUSHROOMS
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When talking about poisonous mushrooms, it is normally clear cut and relatively easy, but unfortunately this distinction is not at all clear with the morels. In fact false morels fit quite easily into both categories of edible and poisonous mushrooms...
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GROW MOREL MUSHROOMS
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Growing morel mushrooms is possible but sometimes the results are a little haphazard, you cannot always give guaranteed results. Morel mushrooms grow near dead elm trees, old apple orchards, some black cherry trees, or in the area of a previous year'...
Gardening At Scale
How can we continue to provide food for everyone? So much food needs to be transported into cities and in some other places there is just not enough food full stop.-
Vertical Farming
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Vertical farming is a proposal to build high rise buildings within urban areas to enable the growing of food crops to help avoid the impending food shortage which is envisaged in the near future. It is thought that by the year 2050 the worlds populat...
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Sustainable Gardening Non-Profit changing the world one garden at a time.
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The Food for Everyone Foundation is a Non-Profit organization that travels the world teaching people in impoverished areas how to grow gardens which will yield five to ten times more than traditional gardening methods. Perhaps the most beneficial asp...
Food Growing Sites
If you have a food growing lens or site, add it to this list. If you see a favourite, then vote it up (and vote this page up on Digg to give your page a better chance).
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Home Garden Seeds.
All you want to know about home garden seeds. Gard more...1 point
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How To Plant Vegetables Indoors
Learn how to plant vegetables indoors if you want more...1 point
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Gardening - Growing Food - ThriftyFun
Growing Food in the Fall and Winter. I would like more...0 points
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Growing Food (LiFE series)
Developed by educators at Teachers College, Columb more...0 points
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How to Grow Your Own Food - wikiHow
But growing one's own food could mean increased se more...0 points
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Growing Food and Urban Agriculture
In our society growing food yourself has become th more...0 points
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Worms on the loose!
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Houston Pest Control
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Vertical Farming
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Growing Grapes|My Grape Vine
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How to Grow Garlic a Tasty Herbal Medicine | eHow.com
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Organic Food Gardening Beginners Manual
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Self-Sufficient-Life.com
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Produce 5-10 Times More Food While Using 1/2 The Water!
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The Virgin Gardener: How to grow chillies - Times Online
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Organic Food Gardening
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How To Grow and Use Herbs
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Group Discussion
What are you growing at the moment? Do you have a food question for the group - a few growing pains perhaps?
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ClassyGals wrote...
Hi Danny! Great lens on growing food. Thanks for featuring my how to grow vegetables indoors lens. Five stars and favored.
ClassyGals wrote...
Hi Danny! Great lens on growing food. Thanks for featuring my how to grow vegetables indoors lens. Five stars and favored.
Indoor_Jungle wrote...
I am growing sage and herbs (indoors, of course!). Also, my mom has what seems like 1,000,000 house plants.
dannystaple wrote...
To all the group members - I have added additional requirements to the membership - which I hope all members can ensure their lenses meet. I want to keep the standard of this group great so it can be a primary resource.
The new requirements are:
Lenses should have no default module titles or empty content.
Lenses should have a table of contents - enable the default one or use a TOC module.
Lensmasters should have a profile and picture.
None of these are particularly difficult, but they do help to raise the standards of the group.
Now onto my poll - it seems that there are not many respondents, and those that did do keep records. Please don't think you should only answer if you do keep records - non record keepers, please vote too.
gardenlady wrote...
Hey Danny.
No I don't keep records, I just plant and tend the way my grandmother used to. I have just added another lens to your group - hope to hear from you soon.
Do you keep records on your patch?
All of us grow things in our own unique kind of way. Indoors, outdoors, containers, raised beds, watering regimes (or gadgets) and so on.
If you are anything like me, you probably have experiments, and control plants so you can figure out what things work better. So my question is do you keep records on your plants?
Record keeping discussion
If you want to expand further than just a vote, or share your garden record keeping notes or even a lens/site on it, then drop us a line below.
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Gardening Book Buying Guides
These all suggest books to buy which will help your gardening techniques. There is plenty of free info in the lenses and links above, but if you need it all in one place, then try these.-
Start a profitable Gardening business
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Goal: To ;live off the land; and produce a great income using the Food for Everyone Foundation method of Grow-Box and Grow-Bed gardening. Gardens using the Foundation method grow five to ten times the yield of traditional gardens. In addition to prod...
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A Beginner's Manual To Organic Food Gardening
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"Here's The Ultimate, 'Take-You-By-The-Hand' Manual For Creating & Managing Your Own Organic Food Garden - Even If You Know Nothing About Organic Gardening." Available Now At 1StopOrganicGardening.com
Recipes
These recipes fully support the idea of bringing things straight from the garden, to the kitchen and to your plates or mugs.-
Homemade Vegetable Soup
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As a kid, I used to love my mother's homemade vegetable soup. In the fall and winter it brought comfort and even years later when I made it for my husband, he quickly developed a taste for it as well. With simple, inexpensive ingredients my mother...
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HERBAL TEA RECIPES - make your own delicious herbal tea for keeping healthy and even to cure what ails you!
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GREEN TEA and other herbal varieties have healthifying, therapeutic and even curative qualities, and many elderly and even centigenarians attribute their longevity to the drinking of certain herbal recipe teas. So, let's see what we can learn about t...
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Stuffed Mirlitons and More New Orleans Recipes
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Is a Mirliton an instrument, a dance movement or vegetable? Actually, the answer is, "all three", but this lens is about the vegetable pear - How to grow it, how to cook it and even festivals that honor it. Mirlitons are an integral part of old New O...
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