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The Flower Drying Game - Part 1: Air, Sand, and Sources
Most average gardeners quietly and sadly resign themselves to a long winter empty of the lovely flowers that, only a few weeks before, had graced their lives with color and fragrance. Yes, it's sad to leave the outdoor garden...
Fertilizing to Create More Blossoms on Your Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Trees
The secret to making your flowering trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials bloom more is in the numbers. All fertilizers have analysis numbers on the package. These numbers represent the percentage of each chemical the...
The Flower Drying Game - Part 2: Sand or Glycerin?
Part 1 in this 3-part series, Air, Sand, and Sources, detailed the basics of air drying and spoke briefly about drying more delicate flower specimens in clean, fine sand or a specialized material called silica gel. If you...
Starting A Container Garden
STARTING A CONTAINER GARDENContainer gardens are the best solution for people who enjoy gardening but simply have little to no space. With this type of garden, you have the opportunity to plant a wonderful selection of...
After Making Herb Vinegar From Your Herbal Gardens Freeze And Dry Your Herbs
A way to use your amble herb crop from your herbal gardens is to make flavored vinegars. To make herb vinegar, wash and dry your fresh herbs thoroughly then pour warm vinegar, not hot, over them in glass jars. You can use any...
Garden Gift Baskets For The Avid Gardener
If you have a friend or relative that is an avid gardener, there is no more thoughtful gift than a garden gift basket for a holiday, birthday or anniversary present. At first, you may seem overwhelmed when shopping in your...
Container Gardening Tips For Everyone
All of us, at one time or another, has seen a display of container gardens with flowers or vegetables at a friend's home or in a nursery center. Many mistakenly think that it took a lot of effort or was done by professionals....
Organic Garden Pest Control - Getting Rid Of Unwanted Guests Without Chemicals
Chemical pesticides are toxic to humans, especially the very young or very old, pets, insects and the environment. Organic gardeners shun chemical pesticides and prefer to use natural and non-toxic ways of removing or deterring...
Health Spa Treatments Using Lavender Herbs From Your Own Herb Garden
Health spa treatments can be costly. Have you ever considered creating your own home spa by using lavender and other herbs from your own herb garden? After all of the hours you spent planting and tending to your herb plants,...
This Is How You Grow Sprouts
Sprouts not only taste good, but they are also a great source of vitamins, fiber, protein, anti-oxidants, and enzymes. A sprout is produced when a seed starts growing into a vegetable. Sprouts can grow from the seeds of...
Outdoor Entertaining
Shared moments in our garden with our family and friends become memories we will cherish throughout our lifetime. So why not transform youre mundane garden, deck or patio setting from the ordinary into the extraordinary?...
Container Gardening Ideas For Pots And Planting Herbs
For container gardening ideas, scan the internet, the library or a bookstore. The challenge is to come up with a lovely container garden plan. There are a widespread collection of containers available for your container garden....
Container Gardening Ideas For Your Home
Many gardeners have given up on the idea of a garden because they lack space, time or lots of experience. But if growing plants is an interest of yours container gardening could be your answer. Container gardens will allow...
Organic Gardening
There are as many definitions of organic as there are farmers in Iowa. So it is up to you to select your own level of purity and focus. You may choose to be absolutely chemical-free or to accept some level of commercial...
Organic Gardening
There are as many definitions of organic as there are farmers in Iowa. So it is up to you to select your own level of purity and focus. You may choose to be absolutely chemical-free or to accept some level of commercial...
Creating an English Country Garden
Many people have dreams of having an English country garden of their own. Traditional English gardens are known around the world for their beauty and tranquility. It is no wonder so many people are drawn to make one of their...
Container Gardening Ideas For Pots And Planting Herbs
For container gardening ideas, scan the internet, the library or a bookstore. The challenge is to come up with a lovely container garden plan. There are a widespread collection of containers available for your container garden....
French And English Gardens Of The Middle Ages
The Roman de la Rose gives the best possible idea of both the French and English gardens of the Middle Ages. It was chiefly written by Guillaume de Loris, in the first half of the thirteenth century, and was probably well known...
Container Gardening For Small Spaces
For people that don't have a lot of land, like apartment dwellers, there is a way that you can still have a garden. The solution is container gardening. Everyone would like to have a little color in their homes and this is...
How To Grow Sprouts
Sprouts not only taste good, but they are also a great source of vitamins, fiber, protein, anti-oxidants, and enzymes. A sprout is produced when a seed starts growing into a vegetable. Sprouts can grow from the seeds of...
Container Gardening For Small Spaces
For people that don't have a lot of land, like apartment dwellers, there is a way that you can still have a garden. The solution is container gardening. Everyone would like to have a little color in their homes and this is...
Growing, Drying and Freezing Your Own Herbs
These annual, perennial and sometimes shrubby plants are frequently grown by amateur gardeners, and cultivated for their culinary and sometimes medicinal uses, although they can make attractive specimen plants in mixed borders....
How to Sprout
As a first step, a good variety of seeds should be used for sprouting. It should be ensured that the seeds, legumes or grains are of the sproutable type. Soyabeans do not sprout well as they frequently become sour. Wheat has to...
A Quick Guide To Herb Gardening
Herb gardening is becoming more and more popular every day and for good reason. Herbs have practical value, serve a purpose and with herb gardening, you can actually get to use your plants. When most people think of herb...
Soil and Your Garden
Let's Garden
Soil and Your GardenAn important first step to understanding why things grow well in your garden or why they don't, is knowing the composition of your soil. Soil is composed of mineral substances or particles...
Herb Gardening And The Seven Deadly Sins
When Herb gardening, first and foremost you must have a plan before you start your endeavor. This is the first deadly sin herb gardeners commit consistently. You can grow an herb garden for cooking, or medicine or beauty....
How to Grow Strawberries in New England
Sweet, juicy, ripe strawberries! What could be better than picking one right from your own garden and eating it out of hand. Or you might want to gather a bowlful, slice them and serve them over homemade shortcake biscuits or...
Saving Seeds from Your Garden
For many gardeners, the garden actually starts in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which...
Garden Cloche - A Simple Greenhouse
The simplest greenhouse you can construct is called a cloche. A cloche is installed temporarily right in the garden, either over a row or garden bed, or over a single plant. A glass jar with the bottom cut out can cover a...
You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 6
HarvestingWhile I think everything about growing herbs is a wonderful experience (well, maybe not the weeding!), harvesting is one my favorite things. It is, after all, the biggest reason to grow your herb garden.Harvesting the...
History of the Cherry Tree
There are only a few instances in the ancient historical record concerning cherry trees. This absence in the record perhaps resulted in the fragile nature and perishability of the fruit, unlike the fruit from the apple tree....
Medicinal Uses Of Geraniums
The geranium is not only a beautiful garden plant, but is also useful for its healing properties. Native to South Africa, the plant produces essential oils in small glands around the foliage and flowers. Geranium oil can be...
Preparing Healthy Soil
If youre getting ready to go on a new garden venture, you need to prepare
your soil to ideally house your plants. The best thing you can do in the
soil preparation process is to reach the ideal mixture of sand, silt,
and...
Organic Slug Control In Italy
Ever stumbled out in the morning from an all night party, only to find that your beloved Hostas or zucchini have been ravaged by a ravenous group of slugs and snails? Well, if you have- you may have, like so many others,...
Chives Are A Wonderful Addition To Your Herb Garden Or Container Garden
Garlic, leeks, and shallots have a little cousin, the chive. It is the smallest and non-odorize member of the onion family. The leaves sprout from a bulb that is planted in the herb garden or in a container garden. Chives are...
Garden Folklore: It Starts with the Soil
Gardening as we know today is not what it was
in the centuries past. Planting food was essential
for survival. Ornamental gardening evolved for
modern times pleasure.Farmers looked to the colors and tempers of the
sky,...
Indoor Gardening Tips For Healthy Plants
Bring nature inside and start an indoor garden to make your home more colorful, but be careful to follow these indoor gardening tips. Plants are so soothing to look at and many indoor gardeners feel that they add that extra...
Shears for Garden, Hedge and Lawn - Which Ones to Choose
Shears for gardening
Hand shears cut in the same way as scissors, with edged blades closing onto the material to be cut, and it's handy to have a pair of these in the shed, ready to tackle soft growth that needs trimming...
Organic Gardening Advantages
The definition of organic gardening is a garden that does not use pesticides to kill pests. This method can be used in either vegetable or flower gardens. In vegetable gardens organic is the safest for you since you will be...
5 Rose Garden Ideas
If you are like me and have been scared away from growing roses because you believed they were hard to grow, its time to put away your incorrect conception. Roses are amazingly easy to grow and care for. They are far from...
Creating An English Country Garden
Many people have dreams of having an English country garden of their own. Traditional English gardens are known around the world for their beauty and tranquility. It is no wonder so many people are drawn to make one of their...
The Tools You'll Need for Gardening
Different kinds of gardens require different kinds of garden tools. Hardware stores mostly cater for a wide range of tools, but there are shops that specialize in the more expensive kind of garden tool that shouts quality....
Garden Furniture: How to Care for Your New Wooden Investment
If you are ever in doubt how best to care for your purchases just ask your retailer or the manufacturer who should be happy to help. The information below should however be used as a quick reference in conjunction with the...
Asian Lily Beetles - A New Garden Threat
Anyone genuinely interested in Nature - while perhaps naive enough to believe in its absolute innocence - might think the small, bright fiery-orange beetle that's suddenly materialized in their gardens is strikingly beautiful...
Sustainable Gardening
If you are here you are interested in gardening and maybe using and reusing as many of the resources that you have in your plot already. This really does not depend on the area that you play with. It may be just a few metres or...
Organic Gardening Tips For Flowers And Herbs
The popularity of organic food and gardening has certainly increased over the last few years. Not only does it give you a sense of well being but people love the beauty of wonderful colored flowers and the taste of vegetables...
Coaxing Fresh Vegetables From The Garden All Winter Long
Autumn typically signals the end of home grown vegetables from the garden, but with a little ingenuity you can harvest garden fresh produce well into the winter months. My Central Pennsylvania garden continues to supply fresh...
My Little Secret With Rose Cuttings
I have always loved roses -- and of course taking cuttings is half the fun of growing them. Free plants! My strike rate is around 99%, which I put down to two things that I do slightly differently than the accepted "normal"...
Organic Vegetable Gardening For Beginners
To be successful at organic vegetable gardening you must draw up detailed plans. The soil is your first consideration; how to make it rich and fertile, and how to prepare it so harmful pests won't attack your vegetable garden....
An Autumn Garden for Halloween
Theres no better time to enjoy the spectacular beauty that nature has to offer than during the autumn season. This is an best occasion for entertaining friends and family, especially around Halloween. Why not take advantage...
Your Lawn - Testing the Soil
Finding out as much as you can about your soil will help you make informed decisions about what the soil will need in order to provide a nutrient rich environment for grass, plants, and shrubs. Knowing about your soil will also...
Grow Olive Trees for Table Olives
Home-cured olives will transform your pantry into an epicurean powerhouse. Olives are low in calories and full of vitamins, minerals and polyphenols. One olive tree will enhance your landscape and provide enough olives to...
Basic Gardening Tips for Beginners
You've decided to plant a garden but you need basic gardening tips for beginners, this is the place to be. Gardening has become a delightful hobby for people all over the world.There are many rewards for the gardener, the...
Composting - From Kitchen to Garden
Many people wonder about composting when they start to get serious about gardening. After all, a liberal addition of compost can change the soil around the plants, the very foundation of the garden. Wet soil can be made looser...
Five Rose Garden Ideas
If youve always shied away from growing roses because you believed their press, its time to put away your misconceptions. Far from being the finicky, pest-ridden creatures that theyre made out to be, roses are...
Preserving Herbs
Harvesting Herbs:
Harvest in the morning of a hot and dry day--wait until the dew
is off
the plants.
Snip off the top growth--about 6 inches of stem below the flower
buds.
Drying Herbs:
Simple Organic Methods To Combat Pests In Your Veggie Garden
Organic gardeners always prefer to use methods that have the least negative effect on the environment. By growing strong healthy plants we eliminate the threat of having large scale pest invasions. But when some pest...
History Of The Cherry Tree
There are only a few instances in the ancient historical record concerning cherry trees. This absence in the record perhaps resulted in the fragile nature and perishability of the fruit, unlike the fruit from the apple tree....
Protection Against Pests
If your vegetable plants are being eaten by insects, common sense tells you that the insects need to go before the plants are destroyed. Entire books are written about the battle to free fields and gardens of pests. We are...
Growing and Harvesting Rose Hips
Roses can do more than grace our landscapes and floral designs. Like its cousins the apple, pear, peach and cherry, roses produce a fruit. Rose Hips are a valuable source of vitamin C, containing as much as 20 times more...
Chives Are A Wonderful Addition To Your Herb Garden Or Container Garden
Garlic, leeks, and shallots have a little cousin, the chive. It is the smallest and non-odorize member of the onion family. The leaves sprout from a bulb that is planted in the herb garden or in a container garden. Chives are a...
Tomato Container Gardens
Tomato container gardens are an alternative to a traditional tomato garden. Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables, well in this case fruits, of people around the world. They can be used in so many ways, in a salad or...
Organic Vegetable Gardening For Beginners
To be successful at organic vegetable gardening you must draw up detailed plans. The soil is your first consideration; how to make it rich and fertile, and how to prepare it so harmful pests won't attack your vegetable garden....
Giving Seeds What They Need In Storage
On a recent visit to the home of dear friends--a family blend of professionals, gardeners, homemaker, outdoorsman, and delightful youngsters--we brought along a package of choice vegetable seeds that I knew would be accepted...
About Keeping Tree Seeds With Proper Storage
Tree seeds normally have a shelf life of 1-2 years depending on species. But, it seems that the colder you keep the seeds, the longer they survive.All the National institute of Agroforestry, will conserved seeds after doing the...
Container Gardens - Big Growth in Small Spaces
Container gardens are ideal for city apartments, balconies, decks, patios, and interior rooms. On its Web site Cornell Plantations, part of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, says "container gardening is gaining in...
Herbal Medicine Chest in Your Backyard
What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you'll have to harvest your weeds, but you would do that anyhow: it's called weeding.Spring is an especially fertile time for harvesting your weeds -...
Send Roses Online
Sending roses online is very easy nowadays. With the advent of the Internet, lots of flower shops have gone online to provide their clients the ability to order from the comfort of their home. Lot of times, these shops have...
Saving Seeds From Your Garden
For many gardeners, the garden actually starts in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which...
Ancient Fig Trees Through History
The fig tree, Ficus carica, possibly originated in Northern Asia according to archeological fossil records. Spanish missionaries brought it to the United States in 1520. Historical Sumerian tablets record the use and...
Decorating Styles For A Nursery
Planning on a decorating scheme for your nursery. What kind of furniture and accents to get. How to get the best furniture. Decorating a nursery is both fun and frustrating. You want the ideal room for your baby, but how much...
Finding the Right Bottle for Your Bottle Garden
Bottle gardens, once a staple of upper-class Victorian homes, are making a comeback. From quaint wine jugs to terrariums capable of sustaining small reptiles or hermit crabs, bottle gardens are a great addition to a houseplant...
Tinctures Made From Fresh Herbs
The principles behind making tinctures are to obtain the spiritual and physical quintessence of the plant. This is done by using the powers of ethyl alcohol to dissolve and preserve the herb you are using.The material used to...
Garden Bugs
For as much as I like most bugs, they undoubtedly have a way of ruining a garden in a very timely fashion. As a child, I would run from the garden to the woods, transplanting as many garden bugs as possible before my mother...
An Herb Container Garden In Your Home
There are ways that you can spice up your cooking and thats by growing an Herb Container Garden. Nothing will enhance the flavor of your food like fresh herbs. Fresh herbs have intense flavor that makes even the plainest...
A Traipse Through the Tulips
Flowering bulbs can change your garden from being merely a plot of dirt and rocks adorned with a few scraggly plants to being an absolute showplace, with splashes of brilliant color. Bulbs provide a good investment in terms of...
Four Herbal Remedies For Asthma
In the 21st century we smugly dismiss herbal remedies for asthma as "old wives tales" but this is a foolish attitude. For 5,000 years of recorded history, and undoubtedly many centuries before, humans have been using plants and...
How To Propagate Your Roses Through The Proper Use Of Rose Cuttings
Roses were spread across the U.S. when early pioneers brought their rose cuttings with them in mason jars to plant them in the new areas they were moving to. This art of propagating roses has been around since Victorian times...
Sensory Garden - Essential Oils in the Garden
What Are Essential Oils?Essential oils are the fragrant liquids found in aromatic plants. They may be found in many different parts of the plant: resin, bark, flowers, leaves, seeds, roots, wood. List your favourite plant smells
How to Grow Rhubarb
I have always grown rhubarb in my garden. Sometimes we consume it
and sometimes we don't, but I think I just enjoy admiring its big
green leaves and pretty red stalks.Rhubarb will grow almost anywhere. We have moved our...
Whirligig Pleasure
Likely you have smiled many times at whirligigs as you drove past them in someones yard -- without knowing you were admiring a 10,000-year-old folk-art form.Hitch weather vanes to windmills and you get whirligigs an...
Making a Splash with Water Features in the Garden
Want to add additional charm and tranquility to your garden? Incorporate a water feature. No matter what size or type of garden you have, there are a number of water features that will fit into any design or space, as well as...
How And Where To Buy Used Lawn Tractors
You do not need to be an expert to buy a used garden tractor; you just need to have a lot of common sense. You also do not need to know the jargon, just read the article, and you will know everything that you need to know. Buy...
History Of The Guava
The early Spanish explorers of the 1500s found Strawberry Guava, Acca sellowiana O., growing as a native tree in America, where they were firmly established from Mexico southward to Peru. History records that Seminole...
Kitchen Compost Crock
I keep garbage on my kitchen counter and I'm proud of it. Used coffee grinds, tea bags, vegetable peels, leftovers and even some of my junk mail. No, I'm not a disgusting slob, I'm a kitchen composter.During the winter, it's...
You Can Grow Your Own Herb Garden - Part 5
Care and Feeding of Your Herb GardenMost herbs are fairly easy to maintain. They don't need water every day and don't really need fertilizer. The biggest concern you'll have is weeding.To find out if your garden needs water,...
The Benefits of Having a Wooden Garden Shed
Before building a new structure on your property, check building codes in your area. You dont want to erect your new shed only to have to tear it down. You may need to apply for a permit before building a...
How To Create Healthy, Fertile Soil
In your organic garden it is very important to have fertile soil to make the best possible growing conditions for healthy, tasty vegetables and great yields. Soil fertility is best when essential nutrients are available to your...
Taste The Horseradish
Many are proud of their capability to consume spicy. They keep on blowing the trumpet about eating jalapeños out of the jar while some love to consume eggs with Tabasco. I am an epitome of above illustrated cases. Hot food...
Pest Control and Mosquito Larva
If you have rainbow fishes, you will probably want to feed them their preferred live food, mosquito larva. If you want to cultivate your own mosquito larva, you can do so by establishing a bucket or tub outside filled with...
Outdoor Entertaining
Shared moments in our garden with our family and friends become memories we will cherish throughout our lifetime. So why not transform youre mundane garden, deck or patio setting from the ordinary into the extraordinary?...
Barefoot at the Cottage
One of the greatest private joys in cottage life is the ability to walk barefoot throughout your property. Whether our happy-feet are skimming across sun-baked stones along the shoreline or across the mossy velvet of our...
Ancient Figs Through History
The fig tree, Ficus carica, possibly originated in Northern Asia according to archeological fossil records. Spanish missionaries brought it to the United States in 1520. Historical Sumerian tablets record the use and...
How To Make Your Own Rooting Hormone
When starting a new plant from a leaf or stem cutting, thecutting will be more likely to form roots and make a newplant if a rooting hormone is used.While commercial rooting hormone can be used there areorganic homemade...
Will Double Chaise Lounge Cushions Lead You To the Altar?
Picture yourself for a moment enjoying a beautiful summer day with a warm, soft breeze blowing over your face, birds singing, and if you're on or close to the water, the gentle sound of waves lapping at the shore. These are...
Olive Jars: Easily Add an Authentic Focal Point to Any Garden
One of the best ways to add interest to your garden is with architectural accent pieces. A unique piece can add a focal point and break-up the plant material. One interesting way I found to do this is with old olive jars. Olive...
Unique Mothers Day Flowers
Anna Jarvis, daughter of Anna Reeves Jarvis, was the power behind the official establishment of Mother's Day. As a youngster, she helped her mother look after her flower garden that comprised of a large number of white...
Drying Herbs
Now is the ideal time to harvest most herbs for fresh use as well as drying for winter use. This is extremely easy to do and quite a simple task. Select plants that are just ready to bloom as this is when the leaves contain...
Coleus - The Most Beautiful Houseplant
Many of us have done vegetable gardening at some time in our lives and some have carried this pastime hobby indoors. One plant which can spread beauty throughout ones home or apartment is the Coleus, the most popular, known as...
History Of The Mayhaw
Very little information can be found in the historical docket on the native American fruit, the mayhaw, Crataegus aestivalis. This is true because of several factors, one being the size of the mayhaw and the bland taste of...
Ginko
Homegrown medicinal leaves are picked in the spring but the optimum gathering time for Ginkgo is the fall, when the plant's chemistry has reached its peak over the summer. The leaves should be picked when they are still green,...