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Harvesting English Lavender & How To Use It

Garden therapy tells us how to harvest lavender to use for sachets or various other uses  and to prune the lavender so it will...

Thriller – Spiller – Filler Method For Container Gardening

This simple tutorial of the thriller spiller and filler method for container gardening is a great way to make truly beautiful flower pots that...

Ultimate Technique for Chip Budding Roses

Scvrs homestead teaches us a method of chip budding roses (a form of grafting) that they tell us has a very high rate of...

Plastic Brace Turns Long-Stemmed Flowers Into Their Own Vase

Lambert Rainville designed a new reusable invention - a plastic ring with small v shaped pockets turns long stemmed flowers into their own vase. What...

How To Grow Roses From A Cutting

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...

Garden Table For Senior or Disabled Gardeners Project

This is a used cattle feeder that I was able to buy for 25$. You can find these at your local Farming and Feed store...

How To Create a Rainbow Garden Planter

The Untrained Housewife shares how to create a multi colored planter to beautify your surroundings. There are suggestions and flowering plant names to give you...

Guide To Eleven Edible Flowers

Proper identification of edible flowers is essential Use flowers that are pesticide free For best flavor, use flowers at their peak and picked early in the...

How to Plant a Rose Cutting – Grow A Rose Bush

How to plant a rose cutting, plunging it into a potato and burying it to grow another rose bush. I love this concept and will...

26 Mosquito Repellent Plants To Plant Around Your Yard

Hibiscus And More blog shares a list of plants that you can add to your yard around your home that will repel mosquitoes. This is...

12 Homemade Organic Garden Remedies – Sprays

Hope Gardens blog shares her recipes for 12 homemade organic garden remedies to help fight disease and fungus that invades of gardens. Great news,...

When daffodils don’t flower well

If your spring flowers like daffodils are nice and green but producing few flowers there are things you can do to help them produce...

Flower Bulbs – Planting in Layers for a Continuous Blooming Flowers

This Old House website shares how layering bulbs at different depths can create ongoing display of color in the same plant container or flower...

Mint: Tips & Usage – Culinary, Gardening & Repellant

Snip away.... clip the young shoots to promote regular growth. Prune established plants enthusiastically to stimulate growth of tender leaves. Harvest your plant until a...

Roses, Cuttings to planting

If you or someone you know has roses and you want to start some from them, cuttings are probably the easiest way to propagate...

Rose Food From Your Kitchen Feed Them Your Peels and Grounds

Banana peels have potassium and roses love the peels. They also like coffee grounds. The banana peel should be dried because it will decompose...

Easy DIY Landscaping – Build a Rock Garden

I would like to put something like this around our maple tree. I am not sure about those big boulders but the smaller rocks...

Make Seed Tapes: A Better Way to Sow Seeds

Hub page shares a cool pre spring project to help planting go smoothly, quickly and evenly spaced by creating seed tapes. As winter is...

How To Attract Honey Bees To Your Garden

  I think by now everyone knows that most of our plants that provide us with food need bees to pollinate them. Some, like...

Vegetables mixed into a Flowerbeds in your Front Yard

Rebecca Kolls shared on Lowe's website some creative ways to creatively landscape your front yard with edible flowers &  vegetables. Edible landscaping is becoming...

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