Balsam Pear or Bitter Melon: Crazy Food Vine

Balsam Pear or Bitter Melon: Crazy Food Vine

    The Momordica charantia, or balsam pear, is the perfect plant for your garden. This plant will wrap itself around your garden and produce an impressive and noticeable crop! The dangling vegetable mentioned is a type of squash that grows on long, thin...
Cow Manure: How to Turn Poop into Peat

Cow Manure: How to Turn Poop into Peat

What Is Cow Manure? Cow manure can actually be quite valuable. Cattle typically feed on grain and grasses that contain a lot of nutrients, even after being digested. When cleaning out a cow's stall, manure, hay, straw, and any other organic matter on the ground is...
Barley Plant: Growing Your Grains

Barley Plant: Growing Your Grains

Barley is an easy crop. It is not strange to think of hops in a garden since it is ordinarily grown commercially. Barley is a great plant that can be used in small settings, just like hops. A homebrewer can get a lot of satisfaction out of growing even a small amount...
Coffee Plant: Home-Brewed Caffeinated Cultivating

Coffee Plant: Home-Brewed Caffeinated Cultivating

The coffee tree cannot prosper in places where the temperatures are very cold or very hot. The coffee plant requires specific conditions to grow properly, and cannot thrive in places with very cold or very hot temperatures. The best conditions are typically found in...
Straw Mulch: Protecting Your Veggies

Straw Mulch: Protecting Your Veggies

  What is mulch? A material such as sawdust, grass clippings, rubber, or gravel used to cover your soil is called mulch. Covering the ground with mulch has many benefits. It can reduce erosion, keep the soil temperature stable, prevent weeds, and retain soil...