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Amazing Mints: The Versatile Plant Species That Does Everything from Entertaining your Cat to Cleaning Your Teeth
Mint plants, Lamiaceae, come in a wide variety. Some are good for making tea or jelly, freshening breath or even cleaning your house. Others act as insect repellents or are believed to have medicinal properties. The best news about mint plants is that many of them are the brown-thumb gardener’s saving grace. Once started, mint […]
Best Spring Garden Vegetables to Chase Away the Winter Food Doldrums
Spring vegetables can perk up your diet and your mood. Not only are they a bit of fresh green that can help relieve the dull grays and browns of winter, they pack a nutritional punch that enlivens a winter diet that has relied on canned, preserved or frozen foods, supplemented by fruits and vegetables either […]
Getting Ready for Spring Planting: Digging into A New Gardening Season
February Second is often referred to as “Groundhog Day” or the day that if a certain furry rodent sees his shadow, we will have six more weeks of winter. Like many legends, whether February 2nd is sunny or cloudy, winter in temperate regions of the United States and similar equatorial zones will last until around […]
Assessing Your Garden Soil: Providing an Optimum Chance for Good Plant Growth
Many garden articles recommend assessing your garden soil, but few of them explain how to go about it. There are several methods gardeners can use to determine the fertility, tilth of soil and pH balance. The first and easiest is to look at the type of plants that are growing on the soil section before […]
A Super Guide for Beginning Gardeners: How to love getting your hands dirty, your feet wet and grow the best vegetables ever
Man Using a Hand Harrow. Photo credit: Internet Archive Book Images via Foter.com / No known copyright restrictions Photo credit: EraPhernalia Vintage . . . [”playin’ hook-y”] ;o via Foter.com / CC BY-SA Gardening isn’t rocket science. Thank goodness it isn’t, or many generations of humans would have gone hungry. However, through many centuries of […]
How to Start a Fall Vegetable Garden the Easy Way
Have you heard your gardening friends raving about their fall gardens? Most people think of springtime as the ideal time to grow vegetables, but more and more people are discovering the magic of a fall vegetable garden. You should too! Figure 1 – Photo credit: Chris Sorge via Foter.com / CC BY-SA In many areas, […]
9 Ways to Get Rid of Snails and Slugs from Your Garden
Of all the pesky critters that invade your garden, none is grosser or slimier than slugs and snails. They seem to be everywhere. In every nook and cranny where the sun doesn’t shine – you’ll find a snail or a slug hiding. They’re waiting to come back out at dusk and start eating your plants […]
The Best Time to Water Plants
Have you ever wondered when is the best time to water plants? If you ask around, chances are one of your organic gardening friends will tell you, “The best time to water plants is whenever they’re dry.” There is some truth to this common knowledge (you should, of course, water your plants when they’re dry). […]
How to Grow Your Own Tea Plant
Are you one of the millions of people who regularly shell out $10 dollars or more for a small box of tea bags? If so, you have probably wondered whether or not you can learn how to grow your own tea plant at home. Figure 1 – Photo credit: Allie’s.Dad via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND […]
What to Do with Green Tomatoes – 3 Options with 5 Recipes
Many gardeners pick tomato season as their favorite time of the year. For some of us, our prized tomatoes are the primary reason we go out day after day and work so hard in our gardens. But the bitter end of every tomato season must eventually arrive. And when it does, there’s a fair chance […]