5 Garden Hacking Secrets For The Suburbs
5 Garden Hacking Secrets For The Suburbs
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How and why I began gardening and continue to this day. Explained in an easy to understand and plan manner. Click the link for a sneak peak. 5 Garden Hacking Secrets For The Suburbs
5 Garden Hacking Secrets For The Suburbs consists of the 5 Secrets each presented in a 5 module course with 6 lessons per course. First of all, they are what has worked for me in Northern Virginia and I presume would work for most of USDA zone 7 b. Here they are!
Secret I: Grow what you eat
- Freedom and growing your own food – start with compost
- Make Gardens With Flowers, Fruit, Vegetables And Honey Bees
- Annual vegetables
- Perennial fruit and vegetables
- How to harvest food you grow
Secret II. Grow Indoors
- Quickest start
- Healthy benefits
- Options include sprouts, microgreens, and hydroponics
- Year-round harvests
- Low initial set up cost and maintenance
Secret III. Plan for the long-term
- Use Permaculture as a guide
- Features of long-term gardens
- Most important tools for gardens in the suburbs
- Garden design and sustainability basics
- Supplies on the cheap
Secret IV. Automate
- Calendar of plant cycles and record keeping
- Dangers timing things just right
- Water the right amount keeps changing
- Seeding to keep the cycle going
- Timers, hoses, and supplies on the cheap
- Sowing and reaping
Secret V. Attract and provide for pollinators and animals
- Deer and other bad things are coming no matter what
- Honey bees
- Mason bees
- Carpenter bees, butterflies
- Pollinator gardens with bee balm, butterfly bush, buckwheat, clover, sunflower and more
- Project feeder watch for health and migration monitoring of birds
The key to a better life is to gain knowledge and be healthy. It opens the door to providing the necessities of good living.
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Grow food at home and share with your Community
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All This On Just 2,000 Square Feet!