Make a gift that looks just smashing!
A smashed flower scarf is the perfect gift for Christmas, birthdays, or Mother’s Day.
Fresh Greens In the Winter: Grow Your Own Microgreens
Even throughout the winter, you can have fresh green sprouts for your salads and sandwiches. Grow your own microgreens with these tips and tricks.
What is Compost Tea?
Use nutrient-rich compost tea in the garden as a fertilizer and a natural pesticide.
How to Make Delicious Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
It’s the season for pumpkin everything. During the time from Halloween to Thanksgiving, the pumpkin craze extends far beyond pie. From lattes to pumpkin-flavored craft beer, the pumpkin has taken off in the world of food. But what about the lowly and rather slimy pumpkin seed? Here’s how to make this slimy seed into a […]
Chives: The Delightful Little Onion for Your Herb Garden
Most people think of chives as green onions, but they also create amazing purple flower heads as well. Chives are the cousins of the decorative allium, and they can be attractive border plants for a herb garden.
Grow a Bee Garden
To bee or not to bee? If it were up to me, every garden and gardener would decide to become bee-friendly. Bees – particularly native ones – are critically important to the health of your garden. They’re pollinators, and you need them to create all of the lovely fruits and many of the vegetables that […]
Make An Indoor Worm Bin For Your Compost
Do you have worms?This may not sound like polite conversation, but if you’re a gardener or a composting enthusiast, you’ll likely give a happy and affirmative answer to this question. Along with other invertebrates that eat decaying plants, earthworms are extraordinarily helpful garden animals. They turn those old plants into soil, helping to liberate nutrients […]
Growing Yarrow: The Plant With A Long Resume
Yarrow, or milfoil (Achillea millefolium), is a perennial herb that seems like the shy one in the garden. However, it’s named after the Greek god Achilles, and yarrow is deserving of its name. This powerful medicinal plant is a valuable first aid plant that’s found in many gardens, and since it’s tolerant of most weather […]
Growing Comfrey: A Natural Mulch Plant
If you were to create a list of the most important plants for a healthy garden, innocuous-looking comfrey would be high on that list. It might look like a leafy giant that pops up everywhere, but comfrey is an important herb, both for your health and the health of your garden. The plant has long, […]
Lemon Love: Grow and Enjoy Lemon Balm in Your Garden
What’s that plant pouring out of a container on your deck, attracting beneficial insects to its profusion of tiny blooms? It’s lemon balm, or if you’d like to sound fancy, Melissa officinalis. This fresh-tasting member of the mint family is easy to grow, and its delicious lemon-flavored leaves are perfect in teas or as […]
Sew a Sweet, Simple Patchwork Fairy or Wizard Hat
Can you feel the season creeping up on us? It’s heading toward Halloween, and it’s that time when small folks start clamoring for Halloween costumes. Thankfully, this year my daughter wants to be a baby – a simple costume involving items that we already have around the house. Halloween costumes can get expensive! So can […]
An Alternative to Halloween Treats: Grow Your Own Pumpkin Kits
We live in a Happening Halloween Neighborhood. On the street where I grew up, kids were few and far between. Not here in townhouse land. We get overwhelmed by Halloween visitors every year, and I’m often in a vague panic about running out of candy. This chaos is kind of fun, even though I’m not […]
