30 Enchanting DIY Christmas Light Ideas for Indoors and Out
Christmas lights can do far more than outline a roofline, as long as you pick the right bulbs, match the cord to the spot, and keep every connection dry.
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Marigolds Great for an Inexpensive Garden
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…
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The Four Seasons Perennial Garden
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…
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How to Start Worm Composting: Recycle Kitchen Waste into Compost by Using Worms
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,…
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Decorating Doors and Windows with Holiday Lights
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…
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How to Make a Butterfly Garden
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…
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Thanksgiving Quotes
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…
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How to Treat Common Compost Problems
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…
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Recycling in the Organic Garden
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…
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Starting Seeds in Cold Weather Stops Pests and Diseases
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…
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Organic Garden Compost (Batch, Continuous, Anaerobic and Aerobic Aspects of Compost)
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…
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Plant Care Begins with Good Soil
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…
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Bright Colors of Coleus for the Shady Garden
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…
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11 Ideas For Thanksgiving Leftovers
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…
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Budget Ideas For The Thanksgiving Holiday
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…
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Local Farmer’s Markets Tips And Benefits
Here are some tips to maximize the benefits of eating and growing locally. The first farmers market in America started in the summer of 1907 by eight farmers in Seattle. The Pike Place Market still goes on to this day, but the trend has spread over the country since then, becoming more popular especially when…
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Fragrant Annual Plants: Easy-to-Grow Plants for a Fragrance Garden
Annual plants grow and flower quickly and these annuals are perfect additions to a nose-pleasing fragrance garden. Which scents will you add to your garden? Scented Geranium (Pelargonium spp.) Zones 9-11. Scented geraniums are actually Pelargoniums and should not be confused with hardy garden Geraniums. They do, however, have a great place in the fragrance garden…
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Five Flowering Plants for Deep Shade
Whether your shade garden is well-drained and somewhat dry, or moist and somewhat boggy, there are flowering plants for your full shade landscape plot. These five flowering plants are able to provide gardeners with lots of color even in full shade garden beds. 1. Foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia) for Moist Shade Gardens Foamflowers have attractive flower…
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Want More Butterflies? Plant A Butterfly Garden
To draw more butterflies to the yard, plant a garden of their favorite flowers. Here are a few suggestions. Sunny mornings or balmy evenings on the porch aren’t complete without a few butterflies to watch. The fragile, colorful visitors make garden chores more pleasant, too. Children, in particular, find butterflies fascinating. To draw more of…
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12 Clever Last-Minute Christmas Hacks, Sorted by How Much Time You Have
You can still make Christmas look and feel special in one evening, as long as you pick projects that fit your time and keep the lights and glue guns safe.
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Invasive Plants: Species Out of Control
Invasive plants may be alien or native, but all have the ability to become superabundant at the expense of neighboring plants. The effects of invasive plants on neighboring plants vary, but each has the ability to become established and abundant at the expense of native species. These plants grow around, on top of, or below…
