Archive Category: 'Garden & Plants'

• DIY Decorative Garden Towers Project: Move over pink flamingos! Today’s feature is from Do It Yourself Ideas with Quick Project: Garden Towers: blockquote>Garden Towers Punctuate your garden with towers made from ceramic and glass vases, cruets, saucers, and teapots. The idea is to take various china and ceramic items and attach them to the bottom of vases with all-weather contact adhesive. Once the [...]
• How To Pot A Plant: Gardening Tips: Start with clean, scrubbed pots–preferably sterilized–for better success with your plants. Coarse steel wool or metal scouring pads clean pots in a jiffy. strong>Pot Cleaning Tips: Most harmful organisms can be killed by placing a stack of pots on a cloth under the hot-water faucet and running hot water slowly into the top pot for five minutes. Another [...]
• Diggin It: No Dig Gardening: Today’s feature is from Tree Hugger with Try No Dig Gardening For Your Backyard Vegetables: blockquote>No-Dig Gardening is such a brilliant form of home-based agriculture I was convinced the TreeHugger archives would be rich with its merits. Was very surprised when I only found one mention, in a post chronicling Leonora’s permaculture adventures in New Zealand. So [...]
• How To Make Compost Tea: We’re learning more every day how healthy tea is for us, but did you know plants love their own cuppa too? ompost tea may not be made from tea leaves, but it is very rich in nutrients that plants thrive on and removes the need for commercial fertilizers. It can also be considered a method of [...]
• Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet: How To: Quite the clever gardening tip here folks! Today’s feature includes tips from three different sources for growing potatoes vertically (in layers) instead of spread out in rows across your garden. If you have limited garden space or want to try some nifty gardening magic, this could be a great option for you. irst, there’s this article [...]
• Budget DIY Trellis & Garden Space Tip: Today’s feature is from Diggin Food with this idea for an Inexpensive DIY Vegetable Trellis: blockquote>My kitchen garden is small—just under 200 square feet—but I managed to cram a ton of vegetables into it by growing summer and winter squash, cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, and peas up trellises. Growing these crops up instead of out frees up [...]
• Getting Ready for Hummingbirds: Get ready, the hummingbirds are on their way! Why are hummingbirds popular? There’s something so charming about washing your dishes at the kitchen sink or sitting at a table and looking out the window to see a hummingbird a few inches away from you, hovering and feeding from a hanging flower basket or hummingbird feeder. [...]
• Tipnut’s Guide To Lucky Bamboo: How would you like a nice green plant thriving in that dim & colorless office of yours or how about adding a touch of modern to your home decor? Here’s a popular indoor plant that even the most beginner of green thumbs can make flourish, and it’s believed to bring good luck too! while ago I [...]
• How To Build A Herb Spiral: A herb spiral is a clever garden trick to grow lots of varieties of herbs, each with different environmental needs (full sun, moist, dry, shade, etc.), in a minimal amount of space. It’s also a clever way to conserve water since each watering flows from the top of the spiral down to the herbs at [...]
• DIY: How To Make A Greenhouse From Old Windows: Today’s feature is from Instructables with this nifty project: Greenhouse From Old Windows: blockquote>This is a brief guide on how I took some old windows from houses they were tearing down in my neighborhood and turned them into a small greenhouse in my backyard. I collected the windows over the course of a year and a [...]
• How To Make A Cloche For Seedlings: Today’s feature is another double hitter with two different projects & ideas for making cloches–those handy contraptions that protect seedlings from chilly & windy weather. he first project is from Gardener’s World with How To Make A Cloche For Seedlings: Make your own cloches to use as handy home-made devices to keep your seeds. Made using hanging [...]
• African Violets: Growing Info & Tips: The wide assortment of colors, flower forms, and foliage to be found in African violets has made them a popular houseplant to collect. Propagating them has become a fascinating and absorbing hobby that’s easy to manage. Today’s beautiful flowers must be seen to be appreciated. They are a far cry from the early ones with their [...]
• Laundry Table Plans With Optional Glow Light: Today’s feature is from Little House In The Suburbs with this set of instructions for building a Laundry Table With An Optional Glow Light: Four years ago I built a laundry-folding table from 3/4″ plywood and 2×4’s with a top surface of large self-adhesive floor tiles. I added casters to make it easy to move around [...]
• How To Make Herb Garden Markers: Today’s feature is from Reese Dixon with a nifty idea for making Herb Garden Markers: I just rolled out some rectangles big enough for the name of each herb, and used my new Martha Stewart stamps to create the names. I knew I wanted to use armature wire to poke them into the ground, so [...]
• How To Grow Bean Sprouts: Here’s a great idea for cutting grocery costs, grow your own bean sprouts just using a jar and lid–no garden space required, you can grow these in your kitchen! Here’s a video tutorial I found that shows how easy it is: Notes: *Watch the video for full details You can grow sprouts in your kitchen using lentils, a [...]
• How To Multiply & Extend Your Poinsettia: Thousands of homemakers received poinsettia plants this Christmas. These colorful plants, so fitting in holiday home decorations, sometimes become a problem after Christmas when blooming ends and many times they are thrown out. If you love filling your home with Poinsettias during the holiday season, here’s how you can get another blooming season from them. The poinsettia [...]
• Quick Tips For Plants & Garden: Plant Lots of Garlic: Garlic is an effective and natural bug repellent. Plant lots of it in your garden in among other vegetables to protect them from pests. You could also make your own garlic spray by boiling a pint of water, throw in roughly chopped garlic cloves and steep until the water cools. Remove [...]
• How To Create An Autumn Entry Display For Under $20: Today’s feature is from Cottage Magpie with How To Create An Autumn Entry Display For Under $20: With perennial borders all but spent and autumn leaves putting on the big show, attention in the front garden is focused on the home entry. Using materials gathered from the garden and discounted end-of-season perennials, create this welcoming seasonal display [...]
• Tips: Getting Your Garden Ready For Winter: Roses Before hard freeze, tie tops of the individual plants together with cloth strips to strengthen them against wind. Then mound earth up around stems to six or eight inch depth. After ground freezes, surround plants with 12 to 15 inches of straw, hay or loose leaves. If wind threatens to remove your mulch, anchor it [...]
• Composting Leaves Without A Bin: How To: Leaves are one of the main ingredients of a compost heap, kept by many gardeners to furnish soil enriching humus material for their plants. The collecting of material for a compost pile is a year-around process, but autumn, with its abundance of fallen leaves and garden refuse, is an excellent time to start the accumulation. There are [...]
• Storing Garden Crops: Cold Storage Tips: Home storing of the less perishable vegetables for winter use has almost become a lost art. Cabbage, turnips, radishes, beets, carrots, Brussels sprouts, celery, potatoes and apples may be stored in cool and moist surroundings. Onions require a cool and dry atmosphere; and pumpkins, squash and sweet potatoes need a dry place where it is relatively [...]
• Bubbling Urn Water Feature: Backyard Project Tutorial: Today’s feature is from Gardeners’ World with How To Make A Bubbling Urn Water Feature … this is easier to make than you might think: The gentle babble of flowing water from this urn water feature helps to create a calm and soothing mood in the garden. A water feature like this is really simple to assemble [...]
• 25 Tips For Plants & Flowers – Timeless Wisdom Collection: These tips were collected from a variety of books and magazines from the 1940s and 1950s. There are a couple treatments suggested that raised my eyebrows (lol), but I included them in the list because they do reflect well the time these were written. Women tried finding uses for everything they had at their disposal. Enjoy! 25 Tips [...]
• Aloe Vera Plant Growing & Usage Tips: Buying Tips This plant usually grows slowly inside a house–purchase a large, more mature plant if possible. If a young plant is your only option, you can still use it for first aid treatments but know it will take a few years to get large. Young aloe plants are potent enough to use for first aid treatments, [...]
• How To Heal With Aloe Vera Plants: Tips Guide: If you’re thinking about introducing a new houseplant to your home, the Aloe Vera plant offers a wealth of benefits since it’s a plant that gives and gives, then gives some more! Here is a large list of notes for first aid and healing treatments you can benefit from, tomorrow I’ll have information for growing your [...]