As an animal that is known to have a relatively broad diet, ranging from hay to alfalfa or plants that grow in their pasture, there are many affordable things that you can use to keep your goats healthy and happy. You’ll also find that many breeds produce a decent amount of milk. You...
How to Grow Better Tomatoes By: Cynthia Sandberg Tomatoes are the number one edible plant people grow in their yards. Unfortunately, many people think you just plop a plant in the ground and with water it will grow. If you’re really lucky, and the planets and stars are in alignment, ...
Everything from flowers to vegetables. Favorite foods include alfalfa,clover,peas,beans,lettuce,broccoli, plantain, and soybeans. Groundhogs will often devour your seedlings before they even have time to grow.Rabbitsanddeereat some of the same plants, so make sure to check for burrows before con...
learning how to grow asparagus is fairly easy. Asparagus can be eaten fresh, as soon as it is picked, or frozen, dried, or even pickled and canned so that it will keep for years. Once you have learned how to grow asparagus and gotten a bed set up in your backyard, if you care for...
How to Get Rid of Groundhogs Homemade Armadillo Mole Repellent In the backyard, woodchucks live in underground burrows. They forage for their meals in the mornings and evenings, happily downing many vegetables, especially alfalfa, broccoli, squash, peas, beans, carrot tops, and leafy greens. The...
Alfalfa (also called lucerne hay) Straw (make sure it’s weed- and pesticide-free) Finished compost How to make a no-dig garden bed I started with about 10 sheets of newspaper layered in the bottom of the tub. In my case, they were less for weed suppression, and more for adding brow...
About Deer in the Garden These super grazers leap over all but the tallest fences to devour the stems, leaves, and buds of many types of plants, including arborvitae, fir, alfalfa, and roses. They also eat fruits and vegetables. Though pilfering is a problem every season, spring is when...
If it’s the middle of winter and your garden greens are lacking, you can give them alfalfa for a nutritional boost. 3. Let the chickens weed the garden for you. Rather than pulling all those (vitamin rich!)weedsout of your garden, let your chickens do the dirty work! They love ...
A good compost activator can be homemade, like well-rotted manure or garden soil, or commercially available starters rich in microbes and nutrients. Kitchen scraps, such as coffee grounds and fruit peels, are also effective, introducing essential elements to stimulate the composting process efficientl...
All is not lost! There are many things that we can do to encourage bees in our yards. What can you do about the decline of bees? Here are a few ideas: Go retro – Become a backyard beekeeper Get back to nature – grow flowering fruits andvegetablesas well as a wide variety offlower...