Most plants need a certain amount of these top three macronutrients: nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. While there are TONS of different ways to get nitrogen to your vegetable garden, there are fewer to boost potassium. Banana peels can help with that, and and banana peel fertilizer is so easy to make. Potassium helps your plants move water and nutrients between cells. ...
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How to Make an Easy, Shelf Stable Homemade Fertilizer from Banana Peels
Banana peels make a great liquid homemade fertilizer to provide essential nutrients to our potassium-loving plants. But sometimes you just need a shelf-stable option, and it's tempting just to go to the store and get something that fits the bill. Instead, make this version of homemade fertilizer that you can keep on your shelf for a couple of months, ready to use! Homemade ...
How to Make Strawberry Sauce {Using the Tops!}
It seems such a shame to throw away some of the kitchen scraps we generate. If you are a gardener, chances are that you throw yours into the compost pile, or if you have chickens, to them. But have you ever thought of eating some of them? This recipe will teach you how to make strawberry sauce out of the scraps you may have leftover from canning or dehydrating! There is ...
How to Make Worm Casting Tea {Easy}
Worms have got to be the garden's best friend. The benefits that these little wigglers share with the earth make soil so nutritious! Adding worm castings to your garden is one of the greatest ways of delivering the goods to your garden soil. Another way is making worm casting tea from these recipes. Making worm casting tea is easy to make and is one of the most mild ...
Tips for How to Keep Your Raised Garden Bed Soil Healthy
Whether you’re an avid gardener or starting your first vegetable garden, you’re going to have to be sure of one thing above all else: the health of your raised garden bed soil. People with raised planters and window boxes alike are going to need advice like this on hand, and even those who rely on greenhouses are never going to escape the whims and whiles of the soil ...
How to Prepare Soil for Planting an Awesome Garden
Soil is a delicate balance of minerals, organic matter, soil life, air, and water. Knowing how to prepare soil for planting is a basic skill that every gardener should master when gearing up to start a garden. How To Prepare Soil for Planting There are a few things you need to know about your soil before you start amending. First, the type of soil, and second, is it ...
How to Make Homemade Bone Meal Fertilizer
Gardening can save you money, or cost you money--it just depends on how much time you have to spend on extra tasks that make gardening cheaper. These days, it's important to learn how to use up what we have and save our pennies. One way to do that is to use the bones you would usually throw away to make your own homemade fertilizer. I love the idea of using what I already ...
How to Make Bone Broth in Your Crock Pot Express
There aren't many things more comforting than a good mug of soup on a cold day, and a good soup's game is upped when you use this pressure cooker bone broth in it. Whether you have the Crock Pot Express or some other pressure cooker, you can have your bone broth in under two hours! The Crock Pot Express Multi-Cooker is pretty much my favorite appliance to use for beans, ...
How to: Canning Bone Broth
Want to fill your shelves with food while saving money? Sick of buying canned bone broth at the store when you know very well, you can make it for free out of your kitchen scraps? I know you do, and I know you are. The good news is canning your own bone broth at home will make you a BOSS at filling your shelves in no time flat! Follow this recipe, and you will be doing it ...
How to Live the Homesteader’s Life: 70 Ideas from Apartment to Acreage
In these uncertain times, many are turning to the a homesteader's life to give them the feeling of self-sufficiency and security they need. Sadly, some decide to forego making the choice to homestead because they don't live on acreage, or own their own property. The good news is that homesteading can be done anywhere, even in an apartment! While we aren't homesteaders in ...
Make Your Homemade House Cleaner Out of These 5 Foods
Are you concerned about the chemicals in store-bought cleansers and sprays? Have you ever wondered if there are homemade house cleaners you can make at home with items from your kitchen or garden? I got you, my friend. I'm here to help. If you are one that is concerned about using chemicals around your children and animals, but are not sure about this "using food to clean ...