Urban Farm Hack: Herb Spiral
January 18, 2016Cultivate all of your culinary herbs in 5 square feet with an herb spiral.
Cultivate all of your culinary herbs in 5 square feet with an herb spiral.
Grinding up your compostables into smaller pieces aids in the decomposition process, meaning you’ll have black gold in no time.
Quench your plants’ thirst in the heat of summer with this homemade irrigation system.
Avoid weeds and build soil with sheet mulch—it’s a heckuva lot easier than weeding the garden!
Grow several crops in a small space while building up your soil using this traditional companion-planting method.
Grow many types of fruit in a small space by grafting several different fruit cultivars onto one rootstock.
Let your yard scraps be put to good use building up the soil in your garden for a rich and nutritious plantings.
Give an old, unproductive orchard tree new life with this historical pruning method.
Don’t mess around with water waste this summer. Start putting these water-saving techniques into action now.
Gardening doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive with these solutions using items already found around the farmhouse.