ENVELOPE - Garden Guide
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...
Tomato Seed Saving - A Quick Guide
Saving and storing tomato seeds is a simple process. Not only is it worthwhile economically (think about how many seeds are in a single tomato!!) but you can recreate and regrow that delicious tomato your friends gave you, or...
Tips For Creating New Plants For Free
One of the many marvels of gardening is that you can make a gorgeous and productive garden with very little financial outlay. It will take longer than going to your nearest nursery and stocking up with everything you want. But...
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...
Compost Dryer Lint and a Host of Other Stuff
Compost can be made from anything organic although most of us avoid animal waste with the exception of manures. Bones, meat scraps and the like all compost and add lots of nitrogen to the pile in the form of protein, but they...
Gardening With Bob
There are many things of which a record must be kept . From a captain's log book to the minutes of the last garden meeting. It is vital to keep a proper sequence of events. A gardener must be concerned with weather conditions....
How to Choose a Gazebo
Its been said, Be in the world, but not of it. Gazebos can make that possible for all those people who have looked out a window at the rain and the wind and wanted to be there without suffering natures ravages. Many...
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...
Common Sense Tips to Beautify Your Fall Garden
There is probably nothing as beautiful in this world as fall gardens. While spring and summer are characterized by healthy greens and wintry gardens are known for having pristine white beauty, gardens in the autumn season are...
Greenhouse Gardening
A greenhouse is the ideal solution for an enthusiastic gardener who feels restless during fall and winter when the garden is bare, reduced to a barren patch of branches and twigs. A greenhouse extends the growing season and...
Flowers
Flower connotations have blurred through history but they best evoke the irrepressible, without offending or rejecting. Every flower has a name and meaning that works in the right color and numbers. If you are mad about...
Flowers
Flower connotations have blurred through history but they best evoke the irrepressible, without offending or rejecting. Every flower has a name and meaning that works in the right color and numbers. If you are mad about...