The right soil is crucial to your plants. Without it they won’t thrive and may even die. Here is a look at potting soil and a guide to choosing the right one. Houseplants need many things to survive and thrive-light, water, fertilizer, and soil. Many people underestimate the importance of choosing the right soil for…
What’s the secret to making the holidays even more joyful? The answer is humor. Christmas comes with its fair share of challenges—overcrowded malls, chaotic family dinners, and that one uncle who tells the same jokes every year. But there’s a way to lighten the load and spread the cheer: funny Christmas quotes. These little gems…
They may look gorgeous and healthy in the store, but once they are brought home, things may go downhill fast. Here are the most common causes of houseplant death. It’s always disappointing when a houseplant dies, but most of the causes are easily preventable. Here’s how! Related: Why Do Your Plants Die And How To Avoid…
Shade has cooling effect on a home and garden. When trees, the best sources of natural shade aren’t available or practical, there are alternative plants. Shade is cooling and quieting in a yard or garden. It is the canopy from the sun. Trees offer shade but sometimes aren’t feasible to grow due to space, climate,…
This Christmas, you do not have to worry about decorating your house. Do not think about throwing old tires. In this article I will introduce you some Christmas decoration ideas with them. 1. Recycled Tire Christmas Planter Source 2. Tire Snowman Source 3. Recycled Tire Christmas Tree Base Source 4. Tire Christmas tree Source 5. How To Make Giant…
Landscaping gardens to conserve water not only saves a precious resource, it also saves money. Use smart watering techniques plus mulch to create a water-wise landscape. During a hot, dry summer, a landscape overflowing with colorful flowers and lush green leaves usually only comes after hours and hours of watering. Fortunately, your landscape doesn’t have…
Putting away an outdoor Christmas lights display can be easy if you follow some simple rules and instructions. Holiday lights don’t have to get tangled and broken! Light sets have to come down. They aren’t designed to face the weather all year. But be careful in removing them. If you don’t put them away properly,…
Marigold flowers are an annual flower that you only need to purchase once for years of beautiful flower gardens. Marigolds are a hardy flower that will continue to bloom all summer long. With proper sunlight and water, these colorful flowers will fill out any garden and add beauty to any yard. There are two basic…
A simple How-To tutorial on creating a beautiful perennial garden that is gorgeous in every season! Imagine seeing your garden in a different light. Instead of cold days with only snow and ice; you see transformed → your little plot of Heaven. This is the Four Seasons Garden … A Four Seasons Garden is not…
Worm composting is a great way for anyone with limited space to turn kitchen waste into compost for the garden or houseplants. Composting food scraps with worms, known as vermicomposting or vermiculture, has its advantages because it takes so little space and it takes very little work to make the best fertilizer. A can of rich,…
Decorating doors and windows with Christmas lights on windows and doors can be a fun, creative, and festive way to celebrate the holidays. Most places that light up big for Christmas are big places — houses, for instance. But even if you live in an apartment rather than a house, you can still light up…
Aside from their obvious usefulness as pollinators, butterflies are lighter-than-air creatures that bring magic to the garden and lighten visitors’ hearts. Though butterflies are not as quick and busy as bees, they are just as important when it comes to pollination. Butterflies are beautiful additions to any garden and gardeners the world over yearn for…
It is when we stop thinking about what we don’t have or what we lack, and become grateful for who we are, that we can gain access to true unlimited inspiration. Frank Arrigazzi I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” Henry David Thoreau Thanksgiving is a special day, A…
Turn smelly compost bins and cold compost piles into sources of rich organic humus for the garden with these composting tips. Compost should form the foundation of an organic garden, so it’s understandable that a gardener can get discouraged when the compost bin that was supposed to produce black gold yields foul odors or surprise…
Recycle your household waste into useful items for the organic garden. Organic gardeners spend a lot of time and ingenuity thinking of new items to add to the compost bin. However, even if that wicker chair did eventually break down into something resembling organic matter, we must concede that many of our discards weren’t meant to become…
Organic gardeners can experiment with winter sowing methods to start seeds of hardy vegetables, flowers, and cover crops outdoors; no greenhouse is required. Traditionally, there has been a time in the winter months when the gardener must appraise the success of the past season while the garden lies fallow. The duration of this fallow period…
Great changes take place within a compost pile so that it becomes greater than the sum of its parts – there are more usable nitrates than in the original material. “Good micro-organisms in the finished compost protect and nurture plants Composting can be anaerobic or aerobic and be made as a batch or continuously. Anaerobic…
The best care for flowers, vegetables or a lush green lawn begins with preparing the soil by digging in lots of organic matter down deep where plant roots wander. Whether starting a new organic vegetable garden, or renovating an old flower bed, proper soil preparation will pave the way to long-term soil fertility and healthy…
Easy to grow coleus with its bright colored foliage is making a comeback in the shady garden, and as an indoor plant for home and office. Brightly colored Coleus (Solenostemon) plants were brought to England in the mid-1800s by botanist and explorer Karl Blume, who had found them growing wild on the tropical island of…
Once the holiday has passed and stomachs are hungry again, there is an abundance of leftover food. Try out some new twists on ideas besides the usual turkey sandwich. One thing about Thanksgiving is for sure; everyone loves the leftovers that seem to last for days after the holiday. The usual favorites, turkey sandwiches with…
Thanksgiving dishes can be served up with love on a tight budget easily. Consider purchasing the food from a farmer’s market or hosting a group dinner potluck style. ‘Tis the season of holiday cheer, family parties, delicious comfort food and hard-earned money spent well on gifts for all. These things may have to be on…
