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Discover the essential homesteading tools + how to visualize success... 🧤
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Cedie Omaña
August 01, 2024
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In Today's Edition:
Homestead Tip 🌱
Poll Results From Last Tuesday 📊
All Things Homestead: Essential Gardening Tools for Every Homesteader 🧰
Personal Development: How to Make a Vision Board for Your Dream Life 📌
Today's Top Picks 🛍️
Let’s Keep It Reel 🤣
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Homestead Tip of the Day:
Plant perennial vegetables like asparagus, rhubarb, and artichokes that come back year after year. These plants require initial care but provide long-term yields with minimal maintenance.
Poll Results From Last Tuesday 📊
What inspires you to keep improving your homestead?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Seeing the results of your hard work
🟨🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️ Learning new skills and techniques
🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Positive feedback from family and friends
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Reading success stories from other homesteaders
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Environmental impact and sustainability goals
🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ Others (Feel free to specify your answer after you've voted.)
via @beehiiv polls
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All Things Homestead
Essential Gardening Tools for Every Homesteader 🧰
Starting a garden on your homestead can be exciting, but knowing what tools you need is essential to making it a success. Here’s a comprehensive guide to the basic gardening tools that every homesteader should have:
Gardening Gloves (Protect Your Hands): Gloves keep your hands safe from thorns, bugs, and dirt. Choose durable gloves with a snug fit to make handling tools and plants easier.
Spade (For Digging and Planting): A sturdy spade is crucial for breaking ground, digging holes, or turning the soil. It’s your go-to tool for getting plants into the earth.
Garden Fork (Improve Soil Without Effort): A garden fork is perfect for loosening compacted soil, mixing in nutrients, and aerating the earth. This makes your soil healthier and better for growing plants.
Hoe (Keep Those Weeds at Bay): A sharp hoe helps you control weeds and shape the soil. It’s useful for creating rows and clearing out unwanted plants quickly.
Watering Can or Hose (Essential for Hydration): Keeping plants hydrated is key, especially during dry spells. A watering can with a long spout offers precision, while a hose with a spray attachment covers larger areas.
Wheelbarrow (Transport with Ease): Whether moving soil, compost, or harvests, a wheelbarrow saves time and your back. Choose one that’s sturdy yet easy to maneuver.
Pruning Shears (Perfect for Precision): Trimming plants helps them grow better. Pruning shears are ideal for cutting back overgrowth and harvesting fruits and veggies.
Rake (Clean and Prepare): A rake is essential for clearing leaves, spreading mulch, or smoothing soil. It helps prepare your garden beds for planting and keeps them neat.
Trowel (For Small Jobs): A trowel is perfect for planting smaller plants, bulbs, and doing precise garden work. It’s a must-have for any detailed gardening task.
Dibber (Sow Seeds with Ease): A dibber makes planting seeds or small bulbs quick and easy. Just poke, drop, and cover—ideal for getting perfect planting depth.
Loppers (For Tough Cuts): When pruning shears aren’t enough, loppers offer extra leverage to cut through thicker branches and shrubs. They’re a must for managing mature plants.
Garden Kneeler (Save Your Knees): A garden kneeler provides cushion and support for your knees, making planting and weeding much more comfortable. Some come with handles to help you stand up.
Cultivator (Stir the Soil): A hand cultivator is great for uprooting weeds and aerating soil in tight spaces. It’s perfect for maintaining the soil’s health around plants.
Plant Labels (Track Your Growth): Keep track of what you’ve planted where with plant labels. This is especially handy for succession planting and managing crop rotations.
Garden Scissors (Multi-Use Tool): Garden scissors are invaluable for opening seed packets, cutting twine, and deadheading flowers. They're the versatile tool every gardener needs close at hand.
Personal Development
How to Make a Vision Board for Your Dream Life 📌
Imagine making a treasure map for your future dreams—that’s what a vision board is all about! Here’s how you can make one to help see and reach your goals, especially useful for homesteaders dreaming big:
Gather Your Supplies: You'll need a big poster board, glue, scissors, and lots of magazines. Get ready to cut and paste your future!
Think About Your Goals: What do you really want in your life? More veggies in your garden? A new chicken coop? Maybe learning a new homesteading skill? Think big and write them down.
Find Your Images: Flip through those magazines and cut out pictures that match your goals. These can be photos, words, or anything that inspires you.
Arrange and Glue: Lay your images out on the board. Move them around until you like how it looks, then glue them down. It’s like planting seeds in just the right spots in your garden.
Add Personal Touches: Draw, write, or add other little personal bits to make it truly yours. It’s like marking your tools so they feel just right in your hand.
Place It Where You See It: Hang your vision board in a spot you see every day. This could be your workshop, your kitchen, or near your gardening tools.
Update It: Just like a garden grows and changes, your board can too. Add new images or goals as you grow and achieve your dreams.
Now, roll up your sleeves and start creating a vision for your future!
The Steady Home’s Giggle Chamber
What did the rose say to the sunflower?
"You’re sun-sational!"
Today's Top Picks 🛍️
Let’s Keep It Reel!
I've put together some fantastic farm videos that are sure to make you laugh. Take a look and enjoy the fun!
When jogging takes a backseat to homesteading shenanigans:
@coldcottagegarden Anyone else out there? #gardeningtiktok #gardentok #zone4bgardening #gardening101 #gardenhumor #homestead #urbangarden
When gardening helps you dodge that /quarter-life midlife crisis:
@gardenwithjonny #gardening #plants #comedy
When your cucumber’s drama rivals your own:
@cagababyan it's soooooo dramatic (ib: @rainden23 ) #cucumber #cucumberplant #dramatic #mom #plants #deadplants #plant #garden #gardening #funny
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