Elements To Good Garden Soil
Elements To Good Garden Soil The soil is the storehouse for all good things. Knowledge of the elements to good garden soil is the key to growing strong and healthy garden plants.
Category: Flowers and Plants
Flowers and Plants the category will cover basic planting ideas for flowers. Ideas for flowers to plant to attract birds and butterflies.
Also, creative ideas for dressing up your home gardens and creative planter and pot ideas to decorate inside and outside your home.
ADDITIONAL CATEGORIES: FRUITS / HERBS / VEGETABLES / FLOWERS / HOUSEPLANTS / SOIL / WILDFLOWERS / BIRDS / GARDEN PESTS / LAWN & YARD
Grow Your Own Safflower Seed
Grow Your Own Safflower Seed Wildlife > Birds > Bird Recipes, Crafts, and Care Looking to keep the squirrels off your feeders? Try changing your birdseed. Birds like safflower seed squirrels dislike it. So, if...
Choosing a Location For Garden
Choosing A Location for Your Garden Want to start a garden? One of the most important decisions is choosing a location for your garden. Without a doubt, it means simply doing the best one can...
Cold Composting
Starting A Compost Pile Today I am going to walk you through starting a compost pile or aka cold composting which is composting kitchen scraps and yard waste this year into rich, beautiful soil for...
Transplanting Succulents
Transplanting Succulents It the time! Time for transplanting succulents that have to be taken indoors for the winter months.
How To Get Rid Of Fungus Gnats on Houseplants
How To Get Rid Of Fungus Gnat on Houseplants The weather turns colder and immediately you turn your attention to bringing in some of your outdoor plants. A day or two goes by and you...
Saving Flower Seed
Saving Flower Seed I remember as a little girl my great-grandfather and also my grandmother saving flower seed from the plants they loved to grow. They looked for characteristics in certain flowers, and then picked...
Use Less Soil in Your Planting Containers
Use Less Soil in Your Planting Containers Use these tips to use less soil in your planting containers. We all have those x-large outdoor pots that need to be filled with soil for holding beautiful flower...
Thrifty Finds for the Garden
Thrifty Finds for the Garden I love using items that I can reuse in the garden as planters.
Growing Herbs
Growing Herbs If you enjoy plants and want to try your hand at growing herbs, try growing these 6 easy to grow varieties.
Plant in Full Sun
Plant In Full Sun In order to choose a plant, you need to know what plant in full sun really means. It is fairly simple, let me explain.
Garden Bicycle Planter
Garden Bicycle Garden bicycle with planted baskets on an old bike, Paint a wooden sign and wire it to the frame for visual interest.
Achillea
Achillea Achillea or better known as yarrow is one of the flowers that I grow in my flower garden for cutting purposes. There are over 1000 varieties of this beauty. The plants range from small...
Low Down on Neem Oil For Plants
Low Down on Neem Oil For Plants Neem oil is fantastic if you purchase the correct kind and use it properly. Most of the time when I hear someone complain that Neem oil didn’t work for...
Newspaper Barrier Prevents Weeds
Newspaper Barrier Prevents Weeds Did you know that a newspaper barrier prevents weeds in your flower garden? It is true! It helps cut down on weeding
Nodding Onion Flowers
If you are looking for any easy garden flower that will thrive and grow in any condition, and most lighting conditions, the nodding onion flowers might be a plant you wish to look at.
Go Big or Go Home Wheelbarrow Planter
Go Big or Go Home Wheelbarrow Planter Purchase the largest geraniums that you can find and mix them with trailing ivy and spilling plants to fill an entire wheelbarrow for a grand entrance – it...
Nurturing Nature’s Allies: Exploring 12 Milkweed Plants in Wisconsin
I often wander through wild prairies and meadows, marveling at the Milkweed patches that thrive in their untamed splendor. These unassuming plants are more than just lifelines for Monarch butterflies; they’re bustling ecosystems in their...
Different Types of Plants for a Water Garden
Different Types of Plants for a Water Garden Three different types of plants for a water garden. The three that are most common in ponds and water gardens. Overview of the different groups.
Fungus Gnat Indoor Houseplant Recipe
Fungus Gnat Indoor Houseplant Recipe Have little black flies around your houseplants? Fungus gnats are what you have. Mix up this fungus gnat indoor houseplant recipe to kill the fungus gnat larvae in the infected soil.