Small Homestead

Don’t forget that the Carnival of Homesteading will be hosted by Meadowwood Gardens this week.  This will be the Vegetable Gardening edition so they will be featuring gardening posts.  Get your submissions in soon, this is going to be one you don’t want to miss.  Submit your articles here.gr
The Carnival of Homesteading has been published.  [...]

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About a month ago, I wrote about our little garden tractor blowing up.  It took a couple of weeks to find all of the parts we needed.  We bought the connecting rod on ebay for a song and finally found the oil seal on the extra parts shelf at a local parts company.
The tractor was [...]

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My own personal gardening nightmare has happened.  We can’t run the cultivator and after years of being a yard, the garden is being taken over by wire grass.  I swear if I wanted to grow grass it would be barren but I have found no effective way to eradicate wire grass without creating a wasteland [...]

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Saturday I started an experiment to see which of the Seven Deadly Homemade weedkillers would be the most effective at killing weeds along my fence line.  I started with Bleach and you can see the results here.
On Sunday, I tried vinegar.  I mixed 3 parts of vinegar with 1 part of water and sprayed liberally [...]

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Recently, I read an article on the 7 Deadly homemade weed killers.  These sounded like a great organic way to control some of the weeds around my fences and gardens. I hate using commercial weedkillers as they are a pretty strong poision and they stay in the environment for so long.
I decided to test the [...]

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Jacob at the Blogging Guy hosted the Carnival of Homesteading this week.  While I didn’t have a post included, I wanted to highlight some of my favorites from this week.
There is nothing I hate more than unwelcome visitors to my house.  No, I’m not talking about the nosy neighbor or the traveling salesman but those [...]

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My father was admitted to BJC Medical Center in Commerce GA last Sunday.  He has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  On top of that, he has some dementia so he doesn’t always remember what is going on.  He doesn’t understand where he is or why he is there.
After it was determined that he could not [...]

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The picture above is my swimming pool salad garden last year.  I have been looking around for containers to garden in and I ran across this article and just had to share, you really can garden in ANYTHING.  This is a woman in Alaska who could not get vegetables to grow in the ground so [...]

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