CARTON - Garden Guide
Grow Some Interesting Plants You Won't Find At Your Local Greenhouse
Do you scour your seed catalogs or look at all the new varieties that have come out in your gardening magazines? You cant wait to go to your local greenhouse and purchase them for your garden or flower bed. But when you get...
Growing Vegetables In A Small Area
For anyone accustomed to the notion that a vegetable garden must be a fairly large affair - its rows stretching fifteen or twenty feet at a minimum, the concept of crops pushing up from a small container or appearing to burst...
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...
Gardening Fun With Children
Do you recall your very first plant? Your first garden? Perhaps it was the geranium seeds you planted in a milk carton or Styrofoam cup as part of a class project. Perhaps, if you were lucky, it was your own corner of your...
Different Types of Bird Feeders
When shopping for bird feeders you are likely to encounter a number of different styles and designs. The type of bird feeder that is best for you might depend on the type of bird you want to attract and how close you want to be...
Homemade Bird Feeders
Building a bird feeder can be a great project for moms, dads and kids. Its fairly simple to build a bird feeder that can be hung in the back yard and bring years of enjoyment for the whole family. You can either start from...
What Organic Really Means
The word "organic" may appear on packages of meat, cartons of milk or eggs, cheese and other single-ingredient foods. Certified organic requires the rejection of synthetic agrochemicals, irradiation and genetically engineered...
Start Your Seeds Indoors For A Jump On Spring Planting
Spring is creeping in, hallelujah, and its time for us to start digging in the dirt. For all of you frustrated gardeners that live in colder climes I bet you cant wait to start planting your garden beds with flowers, herbs...
How To Make Your Own Bird House
Bird house making is really easy as long as you love what you are doing. It is also an effective way to make your house as well as you feel chirpy and bright in the morning. Believe it or not, nothing beats having birds...
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....
Starting Seeds for Your Garden Indoors
In much of the United States, the only way to take advantage of a full growing season is to start your plants from seeds indoors. In areas where the last frost can be as late as the end of May, and the first as early as the...
What Organic Really Means
The word "organic" may appear on packages of meat, cartons of milk or eggs, cheese and other single-ingredient foods. Certified organic requires the rejection of synthetic agrochemicals, irradiation and genetically engineered...
Organic Container Gardening - No Garden? No Problem
If you want to try your hand at growing your own organic flowers and vegetables but have no garden, don't worry. Many people grow organic products successfully using a container. You can keep the container wherever is...
Preserving Fresh Flowers
The practice of preserving flowers has been around since colonial times. Flowers can be preserved in different ways such as air drying and pressing, or using various drying agents such as sand, homemade mixtures or silica...
FREE: How You Can Make a Hypertufa Flowerpot
Try this Tufa mix when you do this project.* 1 part cement
* 1 part sand
* 1 part colored aquarium gravel
* 2 parts peat moss or potting mix. (be sure the potting mix has no fertilizer)
* enough water to make a heavy stucco