Hot summertime weather can cause many vegetable plants to wilt and die. But not these heat tolerant vegetables! You can even start them in high temps.
VEGGIE GARDEN
Growing a Garden Plot: How Much Should You Plant?
Growing a veggie garden with the intention of feeding your family? You need to know how much to plant. It’s not an exact science, but this will help!
7 Reasons To Spend More Time Working in the Garden
Working in the garden has numerous benefits for your state of mind & health, plus, you’ll reap a harvest. Dig your hands in the soil; do yourself some good.
Composting for Beginners: Compost Systems and Methods for a Groovy Garden
Learning how to compost kitchen scraps and yard waste results in FREE garden amendments! Your garden will thrive with homemade compost generated on site.
Organic Soil: Garden Amendments You Can Make at Home for Less
How — and why — to create a healthy organic soil & havest at home. DIY methods to replace garden store products that are healthier for you and your home.
15+ Cheap and Easy DIY Garden Markers for Your Garden
These DIY garden markers are a snap to make. Many utilize recycled materials making them an inexpensive addition to your vegetable garden.
How to Build a Bamboo Trellis for your Garden
Where bamboo is plentiful, it’s an excellent building material and resource for gardeners. This bamboo trellis building method is a bit different!
Bee Species: Native Mason Bees for Pollination
While honey bees are familiar to most of us, there are many other bee species that are great pollinators. Mason bees have a lot of characteristics that make them great garden pollinators. Here’s what you need to know about their habits and how to encourage them at your place.
Real Vegetable Gardens from Far and Wide
Beautiful magazine vegetable gardens are inspiring to see, but sometimes we need a reality check. These vegetable gardens come from all across the USA (plus one from Spain!) are the results of real people working the soil and growing food. Beautiful vegetable gardens are great, but REAL is fun to see, too.
Aloha! I’m Kris Bordessa, author and certified Master Food Preserver, hobby farmer, gardener, chicken wrangler, and eternal experimenter.
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 encourage readers to embrace a more self-reliant lifestyle, one small step at a time.
