May 24
At the last wedding a friend attended, she took the half-dead roses from the bouquet centerpiece from the table of the reception. At home, she rooted the roses by cutting off the heads, making a clean cut on the bottoms, dipping the fresh-cut bottoms in rooting hormone, and putting them in a pot that was …
May 24
Opportunistic Gardener shares a few different raised garden and trellis ideas made from wood pallets. Please look for ” HT ” stamped on the wood pallet which means Heat Treated not sprayed with chemicals. Not all pallets are created equally, so choose wisely and carefully.
May 23
” For The Love Of Skinny ” blog shares how to re purpose bike tires into a vertical trellis for the garden. You can do this project with the rubber tire on the rim or without.
May 23
Great article from Easy living the hard way on how long seeds are good for. If you like to buy organic heirloom seeds to grow your herbs and vegetables from you know that organically grown can become expensive if you buy all new seeds every year for the garden. As I learned from this …
May 22
Baker Structures website shares a gallery with twelve pictures of this beautiful outdoor rustic garden gazebo. Charlie Baker is the woodworking builder of this project. This post will hopefully inspire you to create spaces to relax with your family that also blends into nature as well. This is not a do it yourself project. Sorry, …
May 21
Awesome how to on cloning your tree, fruit and other trees can be cloned this way rather than growing from seed. Antoni Raj over on Instructables walks you through the process as he clones his sweet lemon tree. I had never seen this done before but I think it is amazing that you could clone …
May 21
Away to garden shows us and tells when the best time is to harvest your garlic. I always thought they were like onions and you had to wait till all the leaves died. Glad I learned different from this article. My garlic is up and growing but I sure would have waited to long. Now …
May 20
Mother earth news gives advice on how to prevent cabbage worms and maggots. They tell you how to plant and then how to maintain the soil to keep the worms from laying their eggs on soil the larva can burrow into. If they can’t burrow in then they can’t eat the roots and kill your …
May 20
Harvesting Hart website shares a step by step tutorial with tons of pictures showing how to build it yourself frugally. This is such a great project because it is moveable and folds for a more compact storage at the end of the growing season. By storing it away in a shed or garage during the …
May 19
Real Farmacy website shares a article on how to help seedlings survive the transplanting process into your garden. My first year learning how to grow vegetable starts from seeds was a challenge and I lost quite a few. I hope this article helps others not repeat my mistakes. There are so many of ” The …
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