Consider growing milkweed to encourage butterflies to take up residence in your garden!
GARDEN PLANNING
Planning a vegetable garden means thinking about what you have, what you need, and what you want from your gardening efforts.
Starting a vegetable garden requires a bit of forethought. You could just toss seeds into the wind and hope for the best, but that’s unlikely to generate a worthwhile crop.
Understanding the needs of different crops will help you decide where to plant them. Or whether to plant them at all. Garden planning sometimes means compromising on what will grow well versus your ideals.
Planting Vegetables that Grow in Shade for a Successful Harvest
Choose vegetables that grow in shade to increase your shade garden success. These partial shade vegetables will grow in low light situations.
Growing Staple Crops for a Calorie Dense Harvest
Growing root vegetables and starchy crops in your garden will assure that you harvest plenty of calories. This is crucial for a survival garden.
Edible Front Yard Landscaping: Pretty Enough to Fool Your Homeowners Association
Planting a front yard full of pretty edibles — annual and perennial vegetables — is a great way to use the most of your space.
Plant Your Own Garden: How to Start a Vegetable Garden from Scratch
Here’s how to start a vegetable garden from scratch so you can harvest fresh vegetables from your yard! Plant your own garden, eat good food for less.
Edible Blossoms: 29 Flowers You Can Add to Your Meals for Flavor
Add flowers you can eat to your garden for a bonus food source. Here’s how to use edible flowers in your kitchen (and how to know what’s safe to eat.)
How to Have the Best Organic Soil in the Neighborhood
The best organic garden comes from the best organic soil. Improve soil for better crop yield and healthier plants in your vegetable garden.
15 Smart Gardening Tips to Save You Time and Money
Growing your own food doesn’t have to be expensive or all-consuming. Check out these 15 tips to make your garden thrive with less work.
6 Reasons to Grow Heirloom Seeds in Your Garden for Fun and Flavor
There are plenty of reasons to choose heirloom seeds instead of their hybrid cousins. Your vegetable garden will shine with some of these vintage varieties!
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
I’m thrilled that my book, Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living (National Geographic Books) was awarded the best how-to book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors.
Here at Attainable Sustainable, I aim to encourage readers — that’s you! — to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
Limited on space? Don’t let that keep you from growing some of your own food! In my 5-Gallon Garden course, I’ll show you how to grow food in the space you have! Learn more about it here.
