• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Growing Organic Food in Your Backyard

Grow Better Food!
  • Home
  • Start Here
  • Seed Starting
  • Hoop House
    • Grow Tomatoes in a Hoop House
    • Grow Cucumbers in a Hoop House
    • How to Grow Carrots in Winter
    • Winter Sowing Made Better
  • Sponsor
  • Search
  • Subscribe

SHF Newsletter

Below is a sample newsletter to show what you’ll get when you subscribe. This is the newsletter from December 9, 2020.

If you subscribe, you’ll never get anything else but the newsletter. Never any spam.

I send the newsletter every other Wednesday. It contains the links to three articles in each issue. Read on to see what you’ll be getting:


Grow Better Food!

In this newsletter:

  • How to Get Rare Seeds for Free from the USDA
  • Should You Mulch Raised Garden Beds?
  • When Should You Start Seeds Indoors?

I’m looking forward to when I can start seeds! But not yet.

Here are the newsletter articles:

Seed Starting

How to Get Rare Seeds for Free from the USDA

This is the most popular article on Suburban Hobby Farmer with over 100,000 pageviews. It’s popular because I show you exactly how to use the USDA’s website to get unusual and rare seeds, cuttings and rootstock from all over the world at no cost. You don’t even need to pay for postage. Just recently the USDA has updated their website, so I have updated the article.

Learn
The USDA seed bank is not about ordinary seeds. There are rare seeds from all over the world.
Soil Improvement

Should You Mulch Raised Garden Beds?

Although there are many reasons why you should mulch raised garden beds, there’s one reason that most gardeners don’t know. Most gardeners know that mulch prevents weeds and holds moisture, but there’s so much more. Read this article to learn about mulching raised beds.

Read Article
Garden Planning

When Should You Start Seeds Indoors?

Deciding when to start seedlings indoors can be a little tricky. Timing is important. This is because you’d like the seedlings to be at the optumum size when it is time to transplant them in the garden. So how do you know when to start?

See Article

You are receiving this email because you subscribed on Suburban Hobby Farmer.

Please add me to your contacts or address book so that this newsletter doesn’t go into your spam email box. Thank you!

If you would like to contact me, simply reply to this email.

P.S.: If you know someone who would like to get this free newsletter, just forward it to them. They can subscribe by using this easy link.

Pin
Share
Tweet

Primary Sidebar

Meet the Blogger

Bill Brikiatis

Hello! I’m Bill Brikiatis. I started this website in 2010 to help you get better at growing organic food in your backyard.

I’ve been growing fruits and vegetables for nearly all my life. And I'm over 60.

That’s not to say that I don’t make mistakes. I make plenty, then I write about them so both you and I get better at growing great things to eat.

You can read more about me and Suburban Hobby Farmer on my about page.

Most Popular on SHF

  1. How to Get Free Seeds from the U.S. Government. It's Easy If You Know How
  2. How to Use Chicken Manure Pellets in the Vegetable Garden
  3. Which Seed Starting Mix is Best? I Tested Them
  4. What Are the Benefits of Pruning Tomato Plants?
  5. I've Used a Rain Barrel Downspout Diverter for 10 years. Here's What I Know.
  6. Grow Millions of Cucumbers in a Hoop House
  7. I Shopped for Hoop House Kits. A Review of the One I Bought.
  8. Do Tumbling Compost Bins Work?
  9. Can you plant potatoes in the fall? Absolutely!
  10. What are the Best Potting Benches for Vegetable Growers?

Search This Site for Articles

Growing Tomatoes

Growing Tomatoes

Learn Everything I Know About Growing Tomatoes

Extending the Growing Season

  1. A Hoop House is a Tomato Growing Machine
  2. Coldframe Kits Make It Easy to Extend the Growing Season
  3. Grow a Million Cucumbers in a Hoop House
  4. I Shopped for Hoop House Kits. A Review of the Three I Considered
  5. Growing Salad Greens in Winter. Here's How to Do It
  6. Better Tomatoes with Walls O Water
  7. How to Grow Carrots in Winter
  8. Winter Sowing Made Better

Improving Soil

  1. How to Use Chicken Manure Pellets
  2. Three Important Soil Building Techniques
  3. Grasscycling and Composting Grass Clippings
  4. What is "Deep Litter" in a Chicken Coop?
  5. Why Grow Cover Crop and Which Ones?
  6. Mulching Raised Garden Beds
  7. Five Gardening Ideas from Building Soils Naturally
  8. Should You Use Neptune's Harvest Liquid Fertilizer?
  9. How to Use Aquarium Fish Water to Fertilize Plants
  10. Using Chop & Drop to Improve Your Soil
  11. How to Improve Your Soil
  12. What is OMRI? Why Should Organic Gardners Care?
  13. Winter Ground Covers for Vegetable Gardens

Collecting Water with Rain Barrels & Downspout Diverters

  1. My Automatic Downspout Diverter
  2. Rain Barrel Downspout Diverters
  3. Fixing an Overflowing Rain Barrel
  4. Oatey Mystic Rainwater Collection System / Downspout Diverter

Composting Articles

  1. Do Tumbling Compost Bins Work?
  2. How to Compost Faster
  3. Worm Composting Not So Easy
  4. Worm Composting Not So Easy, Part II
  5. Worm Composting Not So Easy, Part II
  6. Free, 77-page Worm Composting Guide
  7. Grasscycling and Composting Grass Clippings
  8. The Best Worm Food
  9. Making Compost in a Chicken Coop

Footer

My Recommendations

  • Start Here
  • Subscribe
  • Things I Like

SHF Info

  • Advertising Info
  • Affiliate Policy
  • Article Sponsorship
  • Privacy

Blogger

  • About
  • Contact

© Suburban Hobby Farmer 2020