Gardening is a great hobby to take up; it gets you outside, burning calories, and produces rewarding results. Whether you’re looking to grow some delicious produce or beautiful flowers, these 9 tips and tricks for beginners will get you started. 1. Start Up Gardening Don’t fret about finding a suitable Read more…
Growing happy, healthy plants is not always easy! Plants need thirteen different minerals from the soil in order to fully develop. Six of these nutrients are needed in large quantities. These six essential nutrients are nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, sulfur and calcium. The cool thing about them is that they help Read more…
The fact that you live in a city does not mean that you should not want to, or even have a small, green garden. There are many people who live in the city and want to grow something of their own, so they rent a piece of land outside the Read more…
Many people living in urban areas may not have an expansive yard for growing fresh tomatoes. This is where growing them in containers can be the way (sometimes the only way) to go. Just about any tomato can be grown using containers as long as they use the right set-up. Read more…
Lithops Lithops are better known as living stones because of their unusual characteristics. Looking at them you may think they look like small pebbles and stones just laying on the ground. These succulents are really different and a great addition to any succulent garden. In southern Africa, where they originate, Read more…
1. Feverfew This perennial medicinal herb is part of the chrysanthemum family. It’s easy to grow, and once it blooms in spring, it doesn’t stop. You can use the versatile leaves and flowers of this prolific plant to make a healing tea or a fragrant summertime bouquet. Feverfew has been Read more…
One of the most often overlooked growing practices is pruning tomatoes. Before you start clipping, you’ll need to know what type of tomato you are growing. There are two types, indeterminate and determinate. Indeterminate tomatoes are those that have a leaf bud as the apical meristem. This means the plant 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…
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…