Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Growing potatoes in containers expands your growing space while giving you abundant harvests of tasty and versatile spuds.  Containers can be used year after year.  So once you master growing potatoes in containers you’ll be set for abundant harvests every time.  But there are a few key steps to make sure you get the best ... Read More about Growing Potatoes in Containers to Maximize Your Garden Harvests Growing Potatoes in Containers to Maximize Your Garden Harvests ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Raising quail can be a suitable alternative to raising backyard chickens. Quail are classified as pets, rather than livestock, and are smaller and quieter. They can be raised for both eggs, or meat and are viable as a small-scale, backyard egg producing pet. There are many breeds of of quail, including our native North American ... Read More about Raising Quail in Your Backyard Raising Quail in Your Backyard ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Garlic confit is a delicious garlic condiment with a sweet, mildly pungent flavor.  It goes well with starches like rice and potatoes and adds umami flavor to these dishes.  Made with just two ingredients, it is a simple but healthy addition that is rich in flavor and easy to make. **Sponsored post** There are many ... Read More about Make Garlic Confit to Up-Level Your Cooking Skills and Bring on the Compliments Make Garlic Confit to Up-Level Your Cooking Skills and Bring on the Compliments ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Growing tomatoes in pots can be a fun and rewarding project. Potted tomatoes fit on a balcony, in your windowsill, or even in containers in your yard. For rich tomato flavor, nothing quite beats a sun-ripened tomato that you just picked off of your own plant. Tomatoes are one of the many, mostly non-finicky seeds ... Read More about Growing Tomatoes in Pots Growing Tomatoes in Pots ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | You can get started starting seeds at any time of the year. Indoor, and outdoor seed starting is a useful, money-saving garden skill to have, and to know. There are many different techniques for starting seeds, and a few finicky to start seeds, but most seed starting is simple. Depending on your location, March is ... Read More about Quick Start Guide to Starting Seeds Quick Start Guide to Starting Seeds ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | There are many easy ways to make compost for a home garden. Learn how to make compost with some of the fun, creative, and best ways to make this useful fertilizer for your garden. Homemade compost is both a good way to reduce vegetable, fruit, and yard wastes to a usable, useful, garden amendment, and ... Read More about How to Make Compost How to Make Compost ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | During both WW1 and WW2 governments of the UK and North America encouraged their citizens to plant “Victory Gardens” or “War Gardens” to supplement their food rations.  It would be beneficial to revisit that as we plan our summer vegetables and herb gardens and consider food security goals. Also see this post: Family Garden: Planting ... Read More about Victory Gardens to Save Money and Provide Food Security Victory Gardens to Save Money and Provide Food Security ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Succession planting is a key opportunity to increase your garden yields, but to do it well, you need to add it to your garden planning before you plant that first seed.  Follow these easy steps to increase your garden yields and get more vegetables from the same garden space. It was snowing again today but ... Read More about Succession Planting: Double Your Yields Without Increasing Your Garden Space Succession Planting: Double Your Yields Without Increasing Your Garden Space ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Hydroponic lettuce is an awesome way to keep your family in salads and greens, all year round. It can be grown in midwinter, when there’s 4 feet of snow on the outside garden. It thrives in summer, when outdoor lettuces bolt. And, best of all, it’s relatively inexpensive too, especially compared to store bought lettuce ... Read More about Hydroponic Lettuce for Continuous Salads Hydroponic Lettuce for Continuous Salads ..read more

Joybilee® Farm | DIY | Herbs | Gardening | Beautiful handwriting is an art that needs regular practice.  As we spend more time at the keyboard, our handwriting suffers. But its possible to improve and there are a lot of benefits to improving your handwriting skills. I noticed that as I spent more and more time at the keyboard writing books, writing blog posts, ... Read More about How to Have Beautiful Handwriting in a Digital Age How to Have Beautiful Handwriting in a Digital Age ..read more