10 Easy-to-Grow Flowers for Every Gardener

Grow Flowers for Every Gardener

Gardening can be a fun activity for all ages and skill levels, but knowing what flowers to grow can be daunting. To make things simple, here are 10 easy-to-grow flowers that any gardener can enjoy! From dainty daisies to vibrant marigolds, these plants will bring life and color to any garden. With the right care and attention, they’ll reward you with years of beautiful blooms. Read on to discover some of the best flowers to start growing today!

Lily

The Lilies are a classic flower and one of the most delightful to grow in any garden. They come in many colors, ranging from white to yellow, pink, orange, and more. Depending on the variety, they can reach heights between 8 inches (20 cm) to over 4 feet (1 m). When cared for properly, they’ll produce gorgeous blooms that last up to 6 weeks. To get started growing lilies, plant bulbs in well-draining soil and water deeply at least once per week. Lilies can be used as corporate gifts or a romantic gesture, so they’re perfect for any occasion.

Lily

Pansy

Pansies are one of the most popular choices for gardens due to their bright colors and ease of growth. Pansies require very little maintenance once established and can bloom all season long. These flowers also don’t require full sun and will thrive in partial shade, making them ideal for gardens with limited light exposure. Pansies can be planted from seeds or purchased as small bedding plants from your local nursery. When planting pansies, make sure to keep the soil moist and fertilize once a month for healthy growth.

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Daisy

Daisy is a classic flower that is quite easy to grow in any garden! The cheerful daisy blooms depending on the color of its petals–white or yellow–and is definitely one of the best options for beginner gardeners. Daisies have shallow roots, so they require less water than other flowers and can tolerate a wide range of soil types. The best fertilizer for daisies is a slow-release organic compound. For ideal growth, plant your daisies in an area that receives at least six hours of direct sunlight per day. With the right care and attention, you’ll have bright and cheerful blooms all season long!

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Marigold

Marigolds are another great flower for the beginner gardener. These vibrant flowers will add a pop of color to any garden, and they’re incredibly easy to grow! Marigolds thrive in full sun, so make sure to plant them in an area that gets plenty of sunlight. They don’t require much care–just water them regularly and fertilize them once a month for healthy growth. Marigolds also have natural pest control properties which help deter insects from damaging other plants in your garden!

Marigold

Petunia

Petunias are a great choice for any garden, as they come in a variety of colors and sizes. These flowers prefer full sun and will…

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Reforming 702: Strengthening FISA Amici

[]This post is part of a running blog series on Section 702 ahead of its reauthorization deadline in December 2023. In this series, EPIC will dive deeper into Section 702 and the need for significant reform. For the other parts of this series, click here.

[]Overview of the FISA Court and the Role of Amici

[]In enacting the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA), Congress created a new court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). The FISC is comprised of eleven district judges (including one Presiding Judge) who are appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to terms of no more than seven years. The FISC has jurisdiction over the four traditional FISA activities—electronic surveillance, physical searches, pen/trap surveillance, and compelled production of tangible things—as well as the authorization of programmatic surveillance under Section 702.

[]Unlike a traditional court, the FISC typically operates through a secretive, non-adversarial ex parte process. Until the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act of 2015, FISA Court judges heard almost exclusively from the government; the target of the surveillance order has no notice of the order and therefore no opportunity to appear or contest it.[1] This process was ultimately a compromise between the three branches of government, in an effort to balance the need for judicial review with the need to maintain some level of secrecy given the sensitive national security programs at issue.

[]This compromise is not without controversy. EPIC and other civil liberties groups have long argued that the FISA Court is excessively secretive and unduly deferential to the government. These concerns are heightened in the context of programmatic surveillance—such as those programs conducted under Section 702—where the FISC’s role is limited to reviewing and approving government certifications and procedures on an annual basis, rather than reviewing individual orders.

[]Following the Snowden leaks and revelations of the NSA’s mass surveillance programs that had been approved by the FISC, Congress sought to bolster transparency and safeguards in an effort to assuage concerns that the FISA Court had become a “rubber stamp.”[2] Therefore, Congress formalized the process for appointing independent amici curiae for orders before the FISC, which until then had been ad hoc and rarely used. Under the USA FREEDOM Act, the FISC must appoint one of the amici—drawn from a pool of outside experts with top security clearances, many of whom are former government lawyers—for cases that “present[] a novel or significant interpretation of the law,” unless the court finds that an appointment is not appropriate.[3] Since the USA FREEDOM Act, amici have offered their perspectives on specific legal and technical issues, including the retention of phone call metadata, the government’s authority to use pen registers when communications content may be collected, and issues pertaining to the reauthorization of surveillance programs conducted under Section 702.

[]The Need for Reform

[]While amici have been incorporated into FISA Court review on a limited basis, they continue to have a narrowly circumscribed role and lack authority…

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Off The Grid: How Much Land Do You Need?

When considering off the grid living, do want to know how much land you need to get you started? If you want to start living off of the land, then these numbers should help.

Off The Grid | Land Usage Tips

Living off the grid can be tough. I should know, since I’ve been a homesteader for years now. There are a lot of things you have to consider: land, animals, plants, and so much more… So what would you need to start living off of the land you own? It takes careful planning and of course, time. You can’t just go out one day and say that you won’t depend on anything or anyone else to live. So to get you started, here’s a very informative infographic from visual.ly that will help you with what you need in living off the grid, should you have a family of four. Read on!

Living Off the Grid: How Much Land Do You Need?

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How Big A Backyard Do You Need To Live Off of the Land?

More and more people are turning away from grocery stores and utility companies in favor of their own backyard. The idea of becoming self-sufficient is an alluring one, but exactly how much land would you need? Assuming a family of four, here are the land requirements to sustain yourself for one year.

Average U.S. Roof Size: 2000 sq. ft.

Average U.S. Roof Size: 2000 sq. ft. | Living Off the Grid: How Much Land Do You Need?

1 year of electricity requires 375 sq. ft.

According to the EIA, the average home in the U.S. will consume 11,040 kWh of electricity in one year. It may fluctuate higher or lower depending on your heating or cooling needs. Assuming the house is facing south and there are 7 hours of sunlight, it would take about 5 solar panels (using panels of average efficiency) to fulfill those energy requirements, which would take about 375 sq. ft. of roof space.

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Dietary Requirements

9,200 Calories for a Family of Four per Day Requires 76,666 sq. ft.

9,200 calories for a family of four per day requires 76,666 sq. ft. | Living Off the Grid: How Much Land Do You Need?

Maintaining a vegetarian diet of 2300 calories per person, per day requires .44 acres per person. This includes fruits, grains and of course, vegetables. In an ideal setting, suitable farm land can also grow fruit trees to provide a well-rounded diet. Some vegetables require much more land than others, including potatoes and cucumber.

If You Eat Meat, Eggs and/or Dairy, 1 Year of Meat Requires 207 sq. ft.

| Living Off the Grid: How Much Land Do You Need?

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If there were a real calamity we would find a way to survive.

I am hardly an expert compared to so many who’ve had articles published here in SurvivalBlog, on so many aspects of survival. I have to make apologies in advance that my concerns may be misstated. Yet I hold them and would like to share some suggestions for how the prepper community might advance.

I served 30+ years as a physician, still serve in charity work, and I’m also an electrical engineer, and I’ve written simple techniques to mitigate the impact of EMP. (The DHS has well-written levels of protection that are worthy of studying.) Now in my retirement, I’m a ham radio operator and I teach high school at a classical Christian school, and I have led a ham radio emergency communications group for half a decade or more, with thriving results. I teach high school chemistry, physics, AP Physics, and AP Calculus. (I wanted to teach the latter, since it had been years since I was proficient. Hooray, now I can differentiate and integrate with the best of them!) In all of that, I have pursued trying to get people to recognize the mission and put their efforts toward the mission, reducing as many superfluous activities and accessories as possible. (Hams love “trinkets.”)

While my wife and I have a successful garden, a 30-horsepower tractor / tiller / front-end-loader, one of my sons has succeeded at raising laying hens, meat chickens, and cows. I am basically a beginner, and yet I know how to pressure can and dry can and grow the best string beans that I’ve ever tasted, in the worst soil you could imagine. Water just runs through it, taking all the nutrients with it to the aquifer. Yet we can produce corn, potatoes, and squash as well.

But if there were a real calamity (and the possibility of that is right in front of us) we would find a way to survive. With that tractor, our garden would increase to many acres, and most of our neighbors would also have tilled and productive land. My next-door neighbor has the equivalent of acres of irrigation!
Many of our volunteer ham radio friends are closet preppers and I have the advantage of good friends with SWAT skills, legal skills, medical skills….and on and on. I reload seven calibers and I can hit a target at 800 yards with more than 600 grains of metal. You meet the most interesting people in ham radio volunteer emergency groups, and a few key words are all you need to pick who is worth getting to know better.

There are no perpetual motion machines

We have to have goals that are worthwhile. In AP Physics, I teach the laws of thermodynamics, the constant grind of growing entropy (disorder), the relentless cooling of the universe, and the impossibility of making a machine that will provide all its own power, forever. It is best to discard pipe dreams. And I think this applies to those of us in the prepper groups as…

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FTC Fines Online Therapy Company BetterHelp $7.8 Million for Sharing Health Data

Today the FTC announced an enforcement action against BetterHelp, fining the online counseling company $7.8 million and banning it from sharing consumer health data for advertising purposes. According to the complaint, BetterHelp violated Section 5 of the FTC Act by revealing health data with third parties even though BetterHelp “repeatedly promised to keep it private and use it only for non-advertising purposes” at several points in the lengthy online intake questionnaire. BetterHelp repeatedly broke these promises, sharing health data with Facebook, Snapchat, Criteo and Pinterest for marketing purposes. The complaint also alleges that BetterHelp failed to take reasonable steps to safeguard the health data that it collected form consumers.

The proposed settlement order, pending judicial approval, requires BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to consumers whose health data was compromised. Additionally, BetterHelp must obtain affirmative express consent from consumers before disclosing health data to any third party in the future. The BetterHelp settlement follows several recent FTC actions to protect consumer health data including cases against GoodRx, Flo Health, and Kochava.

EPIC has long advocated for health privacy safeguards, both under HIPAA and other laws. EPIC has fought for stronger reproductive privacy protections, including through the establishment of data minimization requirements. Recently, EPIC published an analysis of the FTC’s focus on health privacy after the GoodRx enforcement action.

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Are You Ready to Go Off the Grid? | Take This Quiz | Homesteading Simple Self Sufficient Off-The-Grid

Want to know if you’re ready to go off the grid? If you’re planning to start living alone and not depend on anyone else, let this quiz be the judge.

Are you ready to go off the grid

Are You Ready to Go Off the Grid?

So you want to know if you’re ready to go off the grid. I know the hustle and bustle of city life can be tiring but are you really ready to be self-sufficient? Living off the grid isn’t just a decision you can make out of the blue and start anytime, it takes preparation and determination. But if you want to know if you can take on the life outdoors without relying on modern advances, then take the first step by taking this quiz!

Take the quiz below to find out if you’re ready to go off the grid!

[click here if the quiz does not appear below]

 

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So… Are you ready to start living on your own? Tell us in the comments section below!

Enjoyed this quiz? Here are a few more tips to help you get there:

43 Off the Grid Hacks

 

Take another quiz: Foraging for Edible Wild Plants – Could You Survive?

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10 Garden Watering Mistakes You’re Probably Making

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10 Garden Watering Mistakes You're Probably Making

You know your plants need water – all living things do – but how do you know when to water and how much to give them?

Although these seem like straightforward questions, watering a garden involves some nuances you might not expect. In fact, watering issues top the various lists of common mistakes all gardeners make.

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To help you keep your plants healthy, we’ve put together a list of the top garden watering mistakes and how to avoid them.

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1. Overwatering

When it comes to water, many beginning gardeners think the more, the better. However, too much water can arrest root growth, damage root systems, and expose plants to disease.

Some people think the solution is to follow a strict watering schedule, but this can backfire. Rainfall and changes in sun and temperature can affect how much moisture your plants need.

The best way to avoid overwatering is by checking the moisture in the soil with a simple finger test. All you do is stick your index finger two to three inches into the ground. If it feels moist, you can hold off on watering; if it’s dry, you need to water. If you’re still not sure, you can use a soil moisture meter.

Another option is to squeeze a handful of soil in your hand. If the soil sticks together, it is moist. It needs more water if the soil crumbles or remains in a loose pile in your hand.

2. Underwatering

Not giving your plants enough water is also a common mistake gardeners make – especially when growing seedlings, container plants, and raised beds.

Newly planted seeds and young seedlings need a steady supply of water to become well-established. And plants in containers and raised beds do not have the same extensive root systems as in-ground plants. So they need more frequent watering.

Just take care that the soil remains moist, not wet and soggy.

3. Watering Frequently, Not Deeply

Sometimes giving your established in-ground garden frequent shallow watering can lead to growth problems. Especially in the summer heat, frequent watering may perk up droopy leaves and stems temporarily. But the plant will dry out again just as quickly.

On the other hand, if you water less frequently but more deeply, you give the roots a chance to extend down into the soil. This practice of watering deeply – maybe only a couple of times a week – helps promote healthier, more productive growth.

4. Not Keeping Track of Rainwater

Depending on the soil in your garden, most in-ground vegetable plants require an inch of water each week. When you keep track of rainfall, you’ll know whether you’ll need to supplement with watering or not.

You can use a rain gauge or place small cans (a tuna or cat food can works well) in the garden…

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What You Need to Know About Radiation Sickness

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Radiation sickness is no laughing matter, and unless you understand exactly what you need to do in the event of a nuclear blast, you are likely to end up experiencing it firsthand. Thankfully, there are things we can do to avoid it. Here is what you need to know about radiation sickness:

Units you need to understand with radiation sickness

I’ll mainly be using the units of roentgen. If you see me say something like 5R, that means 5 roentgen. This is a unit of measurement for calculating the dose of radiation absorbed. The lower the roentgen, the safer you are.

An area that will expose you to 300R is going to be exponentially more dangerous than a place with 0.5R.

There are other radiation units as well, though. Grays, rads, and rems all deserve mention as well. For our purposes, consider 1 roentgen, 1 rad, and 1 rem to all mean the exact same thing. A gray is worth 100 Rads.

Don’t get too caught up in the numbers. Just know that the higher the number is with just about anything related to radiation, the worse off you are. The predominant exception to this would be in discussing the protection factor (PF) of a shelter. The higher the PF of a shelter, the safer the shelter is from radiation.

What is radiation sickness? 

There are different types of radiation, but you’re probably familiar with the concept already of the radiation from a nuclear weapon being of the lethal variety. Though you can’t see it – it’s invisible – after a nearby nuclear blast, this type of lethal radiation would be all around you.

Despite being a good distance away from the mushroom cloud, despite being unharmed by the blast, fireball, or heat wave, simply being unprotected could lead to your absorbing a lethal dose of radiation. This means that just going outside to check on your garden could prove to be a deadly activity.

According to the EPA, absorbing 75 Rad (the rough equivalent of 18,000 chest X-rays) within a matter of minutes to hours will give you acute radiation sickness. 

When you absorb too much of this radiation, you will come down with what is known as acute radiation sickness, aka radiation sickness. This leads to the impacted cells in the body either being killed or becoming cancerous, with the amount of radiation absorbed largely determining what is going to happen.

But, more on that in just a moment.

What are the signs and symptoms of radiation sickness? 

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White House Unveils New National Cybersecurity Strategy, Supports Data Protection Legislation That Would Set ‘Clear Limits’ on Collection and Use

Today the White House unveiled its National Cybersecurity Strategy, including a five-part plan to work towards a more safe, reliable, and secure digital ecosystem. The strategy emphasizes that cybersecurity is essential not only for a functional economy but also for a strong democracy and to preserve both privacy and national security.

The strategy covers a range of important issues including steps necessary to defend critical infrastructure, disrupt malicious actors online, invest in secure infrastructure, and build international partnerships and consensus. But the strategy also takes an important step forward with a specific focus on changing harmful data practices in the marketplace by placing responsibility “on those within our digital ecosystem that are best positioned to reduce risk.” Specifically, the White House commits in this strategy to support “legislative efforts to impose robust, clear limits on the ability to collect, use, transfer, and maintain personal data and provide strong protections for sensitive data like geolocation and health information.”

EPIC continues to call on lawmakers across the country to take up the cause of establishing comprehensive privacy protections and to limit harmful data practices and impose data minimization standards. This includes urging regulators to incentivize stronger industry data security practices and to mandate transparency to consumers when breaches do occur.

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Essential Pantry Items For The Holidays

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