YARROW - Garden Guide
Basic Ideas For Great Landscaping Plans
Landscaping can be very flexible. You can keep it simple as a starter. Later, you can re-do the area, or do design another area differently as your knowledge increases. It's easy to get started and theres no shortage of...
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...
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 -...
How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden
In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the fastest...
The MorrowPond Garden - Soil Management
First Step: The SoilGood landscaping starts with a good soil, a good layout and healthy plants. Preparation of the soil is the main component to healthy plants.Soil structure depends upon the balance of air, water, heat and...
The Garden Wall
Wall GardensBoth the strength and beauty of a dry wall may be enhanced by using it as a wall garden. It may acquire a mossy and aged appearance simply by planting flowers, herbs, or ground cover in the soil in the crevices. A...
Perennial Garden Basics
Perennials are any plants which live for more than two seasons and produce stems which die back to the ground each fall. Theyre at the heart of most flower gardens and offer wide ranging benefits to the landscape gardener....
How To Grow A Cottage Garden
Cottage gardens are traditionally thought of as English gardens, lushly planted with colorful jumbles of flowers and shrubs, and grown in areas with mild winters and cool summers. Unfortunately, most places in the U.S. outside...
Make Your Own Organic Liquid Fertilizers
We all need a bit of a pick-me-up from time to time and your vegetables, herbs, fruits and soil will also benefit from a boost of liquid tonic every now and then. It's not a good idea to force your plants to feed when they...
Giving Your Garden Plants The Best Chance For Success
When planting garden plants there are many things to consider in order to end up with lush thriving plants and a great looking garden. The color of the flowers, the bloom time and the overall garden design are all a big part...
Widlife Gardening - Simple Steps You Can Take To Encourage Wild Visitors
Why is it so Important?In recent years, the popularity of wildlife gardening has grown dramatically. Not only are gardeners increasingly aware of our declining wildlife and keen to play a role in its survival, but they are also
An Autumn Garden for Halloween
Theres 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...
Gardening for Wildlife
If it were possible for every person to won a tree and to take care of it, the good results would be beyond estimation L.H. BaileyPerhaps the most beneficial way an urban homeowner can help wildlife is to make a backyard...
How To Grow a Cottage Garden
Cottage gardens are traditionally thought of as English gardens, lushly planted with colorful jumbles of flowers and shrubs, and grown in areas with mild winters and cool summers. Unfortunately, most places in the U.S. outside...
4 Great Reasons To Interplant Herbs & Flowers With Your Vegetable Crops
Interplanting just means growing several different plants amongst each other. There are many benefits to growing herbs and flowers throughout your vegetable crops one is that they look great, combining beauty and purpose....
Top Twenty Unusual Plants for a Perennial Flower Garden
The wonderful characteristic of perennials is you only plant them once and they bloom year after year. Once you decide where you want your perennial flowerbed in your yard take note of the garden climate. Is it sunny or...
Growing Herbs For Companion Plants
Herbs are such an asset to the garden, the household and the medicine cabinet that I just dont understand why gardens everywhere arent bursting with them. Most herbs have multiple uses. Many are excellent companion plants,...
How To Grow And Handle Fresh Herbs From Your Garden Beds Or Your Container Garden
In any recipe calling for herbs, use fresh herbs. Preparing the herbs for your dish is easy. The more tender herbs like mint, parsley, basil and cilantro can be gathered in a bowl and snipped with scissors. This is the...
Vacation Proofing your Garden
For many of us avid gardeners the thought of a summer vacation is both a delight and a source of great anxiety. Whether we are going up to the cottage or camping in the great Canadian wilderness, we want to ensure the...
Organic Vegetable Gardening: Getting Started
Imagine biting into a ideal ripe strawberry, still warm from the summer sun without having to worry about chemical or pesticide residues. More people are turning to organic gardening for the peace of mind it provides, knowing...