CHOPPED - Garden Guide
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...
Growing and Harvesting Dill
Dill is one of the easiest herbs to grow and would make a great first herb for someone who has never grown herbs before. You'll find lots of uses for both the fronds and the seeds in the kitchen. A sprig of dill will perk up...
Dandelions Are An Herbal Plant And A Medicinal Plant Not Just A Weed
You can use dandelions as an herbal plant and a medicinal plant; it's no longer just a weed. You can use the dandelion roots to make tinctures or teas. The dandelion flower can be used to make dandelion wine and the leaves...
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 -...
Organic Composting
Making compost will help you reduce pollution and cut down that landfill! Your plants will grow healthier and look happier for it and it will save you money on fertilisers too. Our local council in Manchester has now given us...
About Bonsai Basic Styling
Bonsai, as a Japanese art form, is more regulated than its Chinese counterpart, the penjing. Bonsai attempts to achieve the best tree, while penjing attempts to reproduce nature. This is why ideal styling exists in bonsai if...
Are Robotic Lawn Mowers Safe?
Youre standing in your front yard minding your own business when a robot with three razor sharp blades spinning at 5,800 rpm starts racing toward you. What do you do?Is this some kind of nightmare? No, youre awake and this...
Organic Composting
Making compost from garden and household waste is one of the best things any gardener can do. Its easy and costs very little in time or effort.Making compost will help you reduce pollution and cut down that landfill! Your...
WaterWise Gardening - The Basics Required to Create a WaterWise Garden
Even with water restrictions in place, it is still possible to make an attractive garden without using copious amounts of water.Soil PreparationSoil preparation and mulch are essential in a waterwise garden. A good mulch has many
Replanting Your Christmas Tree
If you are in the market for a beautiful evergreen to be added to your landscape, Christmas is a ideal time to start shopping. While most Christmas shoppers purchase a Christmas tree that has already been chopped at the bottom,...
Small Leaf Shredder - The New Must Own Gardening Tool
With the current and ever growing pressure on landfill sites in the United States it has become every gardeners responsibility to make best use of the garden waste they produce. Critical to this effort is finding a way to turn...
What Do Rats Eat?
Rats consume a wide variety of food. They have voracious appetites and will consume almost anything. They are true omnivorous scavengers, but mostly prefer grain, livestock feed, and meat. Rats have also been known to consume...
Herb Gardens For Beauty And For Health - Herb Gardening
Everyone knows that fresh foods have more flavor than dried, frozen or canned foods. What better way to enjoy the most flavorful dishes possible than to use herbs grown on your patio or windowsill? Herb gardens are the ideal...
Herb Gardening With Culinary Herbs, Ornamental Herbs And Medicinal Herbs
Herb gardening has been around for centuries and the joys of an herbal garden is well know to many gardeners. Even beginner gardeners can have a high quality of success by starting with the basics and working their way up to a...
Garden Leaf Sweepers for Lawns, Paths and Borders - Which One for Your Garden?
Why remove leaves from the lawn?Although heaps of crispy leaves are lovely to scuffle through when out for a walk, they are less welcome on the lawn.Why? Because the grass suffers and may even die if the layers of leaves
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....
The Secrets of the Lost Gardens of Heligan by Tom Petherick
My time at Lost Gardens of Heligan began in the autumn of 1993 when the restoration was in its infancy. I had just come back from a lengthy trip to India where I was helping on another restoration project, this time a redundant...
Herbs For A Spaghetti Garden
Herbs are one of the delightful pleasures of life. They add flavor to your food, scent to the air and beauty to your garden. In colonial times, no home was complete without an herb garden for the lady of the house to use in her...
About Basic Bonsai Styles
Bonsai, as a Japanese art form, is more regulated than its Chinese counterpart, the penjing. Bonsai attempts to achieve the best tree, while penjing attempts to reproduce nature. This is why ideal styling exists in bonsai if...
Quick Lawn Care Tips For Achieving the Perfect Lawn
If you've ever wanted to improve the look of you lawn there are a few things you can do to maintain your lawn on a weekly basis without doing any major work frequently required to recover a damaged lawn.Lawn Fertilizer- Lawns...