MILK - Garden Guide
Fish Fertilizers
Anyone looking for an organic fertilizer has heard of fish fertilizer. Further research will reveal two very different types: hydrolyzed fish and fish emulsion. If the label does not clearly state which it is, check the...
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...
How to Clone with Success
Every step here has a reason...either to reduce the stress on the new clone or to encourage root growth. Every drop of water you use will be plain water with 10 ml/gallon Thrive Alive B1 added. You will need to start with a...
Why Use An Aquarium Or Pond UV Sterilizer - How UV Sterilization Works
Basics:Ultra violet sterilization is one of the most effective means of controlling algae (green water) in ponds and is also effective at disease prevention in aquariums and ponds and for general water quality control in...
Turn Your Back Yard Into The Perfect Outdoor Room
For people who are living in colder winter climates, the thought of being able to get outside and enjoy their yard and beautiful garden is almost irresistible at this time of year. As you count the days waiting for spring, why...
Transform Your Garden With A Wooden Playhouse
To make a ideal play place, start with a generic square playhouse (plans are easy to find online) or a pre-fabricated shed, available from most home improvement stores. Customize it with some paint, a few fancy features and a...
Enhance Your Walk-Through Garden with Wind Chimes
Whether oriental in design, or a Southwest festival of color and flora variety, you can enhance your walkthrough garden with the use of wind chimes.Nothing more perfectly enhances the garden yard décor and stimulates the...
Pest Control - Invasive Species part 2
Invasive species are a potential menace to people and to our native species. While some pests from foreign lands can be managed naturally, or by effective control methods - others are very difficult to control. With few, if...
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...
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...
How To Create A Butterfly Garden
Creating a butterfly garden is a little different from the standard flower garden, but that does not mean you need to be without any favorite flowers or fragrances. Many butterfly attractants are just as attractive to humans as...
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...
Enhance Your Walk-Through Garden with Wind Chimes
Whether oriental in design, or a Southwest festival of color and flora variety, you can enhance your walkthrough garden with the use of wind chimes.Nothing more perfectly enhances the garden yard décor and stimulates 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...
How to Grow Kale
Growing KaleKale is a most useful winter vegetable and belongs to the cabbage family. It is very hardy and is able to withstand the severest of winters, producing plenty of tops for use during January, February, March and early...
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...
How To Build A Simple Potting Bench
The potting bench that you are about to read about is not fancy, but very functional. It is also very easy to build and use. Except it doesn't have any legs! Don't panic, having a legless potting bench is actually a benefit....
Exotic Flower Arrangements
Beautiful and colorful exotic plants add a special touch to your flower arrangements at home, garden, wedding, or banquet. If you want to add a splash of color to your flower arrangements, make use of the wild and exotic...
10 Planting Tips For Your Garden
Do you want to develop a green thumb? Or maybe just learn how to stop killing the plants you bring home from the garden centre? Here are some quick gardening tips and tricks (in no particular order) to help your plants grow...
Got Grubs? Managing Lawn Pests Organically
Innovative biologists and chemists have made it much easier to control the pests in your garden and there are now a dozen safe ways to control damaging insects.First of all you need to identify what kind of insects you have or...