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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...

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...

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 you’re 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....

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

An Autumn Garden for Halloween
There’s 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...

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:

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....

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...

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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

History Of The Guava
The early Spanish explorers of the 1500’s 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...

The Benefits of Having a Wooden Garden Shed
Before building a new structure on your property, check building codes in your area. You don’t want to erect your new shed only to have to tear it down. You may need to apply for a permit before building a...

Outdoor Entertaining
Shared moments in our garden with our family and friends become memories we will cherish throughout our lifetime. So why not transform you’re mundane garden, deck or patio setting from the ordinary into the extraordinary?...

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...

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...

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...

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...