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.
Gardening
Gardening & Habitat
The Gardening category explores practical ways to grow and care for plants in Midwest gardens and backyard spaces. You’ll find tips on planting flowers, growing fruits and vegetables, improving soil, managing garden pests, and supporting pollinators.
This category also includes container gardening ideas, composting guidance, and simple ways to create wildlife-friendly habitat in your yard. Whether you’re planting seasonal blooms, tending a vegetable patch, or maintaining a small patio garden, these posts offer clear, useful advice.
Gardening connects us to the land. With thoughtful planning and care, even small spaces can support healthy plants and local wildlife.
Display and Dry Hydrangeas
Display and Dry Hydrangeas
The hydrangeas are in full bloom and beautiful but you are wondering how to keep the beauty going all year. There is only one trick to drying them and it isn’t anything SPECIAL!
Tomato Paste Recipe
Tomato Paste Recipe
Looking for a way to use up all your garden tomatoes? How about making this tomato paste recipe? Tomato paste is used in plenty of hearty meals through the winter months.
If you make your own it is guaranteed to be tastier the store bought and have a lot less salt.
Fresh Creamed Freezer Corn
Fresh Creamed Freezer Corn Recipe
Wondering what you can do with all that garden fresh corn on the cob? Try this fresh creamed freezer corn recipe and you will enjoy that sweet corn taste well into the winter.
Fish Pellets as Fertilizer
Fish Pellets as Fertilizer
Whenever I can I like to use organic fertilizers. People ask me all the time how I grow such mammoth rhubarb plants and I always grin and I say I’m not sure. That grin is my tell – I do know, I’m just not telling. Until today. Fish pellets as fertilizer are the secret.
Test Your Soil For Lead
Test Your Soil For Lead Before Planting Your Garden
If your garden is located near or next to a home, barn or additional structure that was built before 1978 test your soil for lead before planting your garden. Otherwise, you might be ingesting lead through your plants or tracking lead-based soil into your home.
Growing Weeks Needed For Fall Crops
Growing Weeks Needed for Fall Crops
Wondering how many growing weeks are needed for a certain fall crop? I’ve made a simple guide to give you a clear idea. You will want to bookmark or save this guide for your mid summer plantings.
Eggshells Agitate Ants
Eggshells Agitate Ants Here is a fun fact for you and a reason to save your eggshells. For some reason, eggshells agitate ants enough to relocate them. The process is really simple and cheap. For the most part, it works wonderfully to push ant hills out of an area or discourage them from going into … Read more
Wax Your Shovels for Winter
Wax Your Shovels for Winter
Handy tip for the day – Want to keep snow from sticking to your snow shovels?
Safe Solution for Aphids
Safe Solutions For Aphids Every plant can have an aphid issue at some point. Aphids feed on all plants and leaves by piercing stems and leaves and sucking the fluid out of them. Let’s find out what an aphid is and safe solutions for aphid removal. What Is An Aphid? Very small insect with a … Read more
Pink Garden Phlox
Pink Garden Phlox
Perennial is planted as the backbone in my flower garden. The Purplish-pink flowers provide crisp, clean color all summer long and into fall and a fragrance that welcomes any garden visitor.
Selecting Garden Plant Bulbs
Selecting Garden Plant Bulbs
I’m a person that likes to see and hold my bulbs in my hand when selecting garden plant bulbs. So, ordering my bulbs from an online source is out of the question for me. But, sometimes, it happens that I have to order online. In that case I cross my fingers and hope I get good ones. After they arrive I still go over the 4 simple steps below. If they fail, the postmaster will get them back.
Lavender Lemonade
Lavender lemonade is a refreshing and aromatic beverage that combines the citrusy flavor of lemons with the floral notes of lavender. Here are simple recipes for making lavender lemonade.
Growing Lemongrass
Growing Lemongrass
Up until last year, I didn’t even have a clue what lemongrass was. It is an obsession of my teenage daughter’s. To cut costs I wanted to try my hand at growing lemongrass.
Hanging Knit Planter Basket
Hanging Knit Planter Basket
Looking for a garden planter that can occupy your empty wooden fence space? If you knit, try making this hanging knit planter basket.
Storing Tuberous Begonia for Winter
Storing Tuberous Begonia for Winter
Did you believe you had to throw out your beautiful plants at the end of each season? Nope. Don’t! I’ll show you how easy storing tuberous begonia for winter really is.
Scarecrow Ideas For Fall
Scarecrow Ideas For Fall
A collection of outdoor scarecrow ideas from my private photography files The scarecrow ideas for the fall collection is finally making it’s way out of the darkness and into the light. Just in time for fall decorating.
Painted Fall Pumpkins
Painted Pumpkins for Fall Decor
My favorite season is fall! My so glad I live in a world that has the month of October. I love wearing warm fuzzy oversized sweaters, the fall colors and making painted pumpkins for fall decor.
