Very often flowers suffer from irregular irrigation or insufficient care and nutrition. But, if you do everything to keep the flowers alive, and they still don’t bloom as they should, try one of these 3 tricks. Place ice instead of water Putting 2 ice cubes once a week is quite enough. Read more…
Lemon trees add beauty to yards and porches and furthermore supply tart, delicate yellow fruit. They propagate well from cuttings, in spite of the fact that the subsequent tree may do not have a similar infection resistance found in commercially grown lemon trees, which are typically grafted. Developing lemon cuttings Read more…
There’s nothing like seeing your garden taken over by slugs. Not only can slugs munch through all your seedlings in minutes, but they can also destroy your favorite hosta or delphinium in days. Slugs are one of the most destructive and difficult pests to control but they do play an Read more…
Are you fascinated by exotic and unusual cacti and succulent? Potted cacti and succulent plants take up a lot of room on windowsills and shelves that a lot of us don’t have. And an outdoor succulent garden isn’t a possibility in some climates. Fortunately, there are several succulent plants that Read more…
Slate just reported on this amazing map of ‘Herbal Cures’ from 1932 of the medicinal plants in common use among pharmacists and the public back then. The map itself states under the heading ‘The Service of Pharmacy’: “It is important that the public does not lose sight of the fact that Read more…
In recent 10 to 15 years world has seen a great change in almost every walk of life and with rapid development and improvement in quality of life people have started taking their health related issues very seriously as a result of which serious questions have been raised about the Read more…
1. Mountain Laurels Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) is a native plant in eastern North America. Its natural habitat is in woodland areas, where it is shaded by trees. So no one who has spent as much time as I have walking through the forests of New England will be surprised Read more…
Organic crops are cultivated without the use of petroleum based fertilizers, pesticides, sewage sludge based fertilizers and any other chemically made fertilizers. The demand for organically grown food crops have seen a great increase in demand in the last few years due to the harmful effects of the food grown Read more…
Kitchen gardens are growing in popularity. With the rise of food prices and the increased awareness of the general public about the state of the food system, many gardening enthusiasts are taking to their own backyard to supply themselves with homegrown goodness. Starting a kitchen garden can be intimidating, there Read more…
Establish a perimeter The initial step to keeping ticks out of your garden is appropriate landscaping. Ticks require high humidity to live and they adore heaps of wood, leaf piles and whatever other yard waste. Gardeners often have this stuff lying around since we require “darker” material for compost. Be Read more…