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Home Gardening Tips by
Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.


The information on these pages could be useful to anyone interested in gardening. However, they were written with the average home gardener in mind. By home gardener I mean someone who plants and maintains a small garden each spring using a simple shovel, hoe, and rake. These are the basic hand tools I use each year and they have consistently served my needs in my small home garden quite well.


Home Garden
  1. During Hard Times Should You Know Some Basic Gardening Skills? - Added February 19, 2011.

  2. Vegetable Recommendations for New Gardeners - Added January 14, 2011.

  3. How to Harvest, Process, and Store Vegetable Seeds - Added May 1, 2007.

  4. How to Grow Each Type of Vegetable Seed - Added May 1, 2007.

  5. Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Available on the Internet - Added May 1, 2007.

  6. How to Grow Fruits, Nuts, Grapes, and Berries - Added March 1, 2011.

  7. How to Grow Fruit Trees From Seed - Added March 1, 2011 and Revised July 1, 2011.

  8. How to Convert Human Waste into a Safe Garden Compost Fertilizer - Added December 31, 2008.

  9. The Benefits of Mulch - Added May 17, 2008.

  10. Ant Hills: A Simple Solution - Added October 1, 2008.

  11. How to Survive Hard Times (Index of Articles).

  12. Recipes for Hard Times, including Acorns, Hickory Nuts, Squirrel, and Wild Game. (Index of Recipes)

Revised July 1, 2011 - Added Orchard Management Information at the end of "How to Grow Fruit Trees From Seed."
Revised May 16, 2011 - Deleted Bargain Heirloom Vegetable Seeds at Walmart - Item now sold out.
Revised March 19, 2011 - Deleted Half-Price Heirloom Vegetable Seeds at Lowe's.
Revised March 12, 2011 - Added Half-Price Heirloom Vegetable Seeds at Lowe's.
Revised March 1, 2011 - Added How to Grow Fruits, Nuts, Grapes, and Berries.
Revised March 1, 2011 - Added How to Grow Fruit Trees From Seed.
Fevised February 19, 2011 - Added During Hard Times Should You Know Some Basic Gardening Skills?
Revised February 1, 2011 - Added Bargain Heirloom Vegetable Seeds at Walmart.
Revised January 14, 2011 - Added Vegetable Recommendations for New Gardeners.
April 2, 2009 - Deleted Page - Bargain Heirloom Vegetable Seeds - Item now sold out.
Revised January 24, 2009 - Added Bargain Heirloom Vegetable Seeds.
Revised December 31, 2008 - Added How to Convert Human Waste into a Safe Garden Compost.
Revised October 1, 2008 - Added Ant Hills: A Simple Solution.
Revised May 17, 2008 - Added Benefits of Mulch.
May 1, 2007 - Created this New Web Page.

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