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Flowers Nice Enough to Eat Edible Beauties You Can Grow

Cooking with flowers has been common since Roman times, perhaps even earlier. Flowers such as orange blossoms, pansies, rose hips, marigolds and roses have long been used for food and ornamentation. Today you can refresh this tradition and impress your friends with your gardening and cooking knowledge. But there are some cautions to keep in mind before taking the leap and eating flowers. First,…

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War Against Verticillium Wilt: A Dreaded Tomato Fungus

Verticillium wilt is a common fungus throughout North America that is best known for its effects on tomatoes; although other vegetables such as eggplant, okra, cucumbers, peppers, melons, potatoes and other crops can also be at risk. This fungus also does a number of some trees and fruit bushes. What makes this particular fungus so hard to fight is that the spores can remain in your soil for up…

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Battling with Blossom-End Rot

Blossom-end rot is a common issue for gardeners throughout Canada and the United States. I have found blossom-end rot on my tomatoes occasionally, but the infection can also be found on peppers, eggplants, melons, squash and zucchini. The infection begins with a small tan or water soaked area forming at the blossom end of a growing fruit. As the fruit continues to grow, so does the infected area.…

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How to Deal with Downy Mildew

Downy mildew can appear on garden crops throughout the United States and Canada during long periods of cool, wet weather. A wide range of vegetables are susceptible to this mildew, though it can become a serious issue with crops of onions, spinach, cucumbers, lettuce and melons. Infection can develop very quickly and make the plants appear to be frosted in the overnight hours, even though…

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How to Deal with Damping-Off

Damping-off can be an issue in coldframes, garden beds and when starting seeds indoors. It is found through out Canada and the United States, attacking most vegetable crops. While a few fungi can be the cause of the problem, the best strategy is to avoid the environmental conditions that support damping-off rather than destroying the fungi, since they can be valuable parts of your soil’s…

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Start Your Growing Season Early

Planting seeds and keeping them safe in a structure, or in your home, can enable you to start the growing season early. However, you can still start early without building any structures or resorting to growing seedlings indoors. You can get a early start by warming your soil, covering the garden bed, or a combination of the two. Winter-sowing is another option, which is the closest to what…

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Grow Your Own Fruit Trees: It's Easier Than You Think

Grow Your Own Fruit Trees: It’s Easier Than You Think

Gardeners often think that growing fruit trees is horribly difficult, but that is not true. Fruit trees simply require a lot of patience and sunshine. While it will take a few seasons for any fruit tree to produce a tree full of viable fruit, it is well worth the wait. Once that tree is established and producing fruit, you will be able to enjoy free fruit for years to come. There are a few…

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Planting a Disease Free Garden: Begin with a Clean Slate

Gardeners have a lot of potential problems to worry about with their plants. There are weeds, weather trends, animals, insects and a variety of diseases. By starting off on the right foot you can at least limit the initial exposure to disease, helping to reduce the danger of later disease issues. The first step is understanding how diseases are introduced to your garden. Some diseases find their…

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Planning Your Very First Garden: Research and Plan Ahead Before Getting Started

If you have decided to start a new garden, for whatever reason, there are several things you need to do before you begin digging. Do not simply go to your local nursery, pick up everything that looks attractive to you and plant it. While, by some anomaly of pure luck, that might turn out wonderful it is far more likely that your will end up with a hodge podge of plants that do not thrive…

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Have a Hanging Harvest: Grow Edibles in Hanging Baskets Hanging baskets can do more than look pretty. If you want to keep herbs, fruits or vegetables in your kitchen or simply out of the ground because of space restrictions, hanging baskets might be a great solution.

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Lemon Based Bug Repellent: An All Natural Deterrent

Commercial bug repellents might work well, but they often contain chemicals and make your skin smell like those chemicals. When I am putting something on my skin, or on my family’s skin, I like to know just what it contains. This repellant is all natural, and smells much nicer than anything that I have found on the market. In fact, it smells nice and fresh, making it much easier to get everyone…

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The Great Weed War Part 1; Battling Weeds Before You Plant

A weed is any plant growing where you do not want it to. Some weeds are less desirable than others; some may even become an accepted as part of your garden or lawn in time. The main trouble with weeds is that they compete with your desired plants for nutrients, water, air and light. If you have too many weeds you will end up with weaker plants. In a vegetable garden this will result in less…

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Green Cleaning Your Home; Make Your Own Cleaning Products

Commercial cleansers tend to be readily available, affordable and work well. Therefore, you might not think that making your own cleaning products is the best use of your time, particularly with the number of greener cleaning products currently on the market. However, making your own cleaning products can guarantee that you know exactly what ingredients you are using. This knowledge can reduce…

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Build an Outdoor Root Cellar: Valuable and Green Storage Option

A root cellar is a place store fruits and vegetables during the winter. They are an environmentally friendly and fairy simple option that can save you trips to the grocery store or farmers market and throwing away spoiled produce. You can build a root cellar in your basement, garage, a closet or outside. Barrels, trashcans, Styrofoam coolers, barrels, or almost any other covered container can be…

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The Needs of a Root Cellar; The Basics of How They Work

A root cellar can be a major benefit in several ways. It makes it possible for you to enjoy the fruits of all your hard work in the garden year round. You can, of course, also store fresh food that you purchased from a store or farmers market in the root cellar. A root cellar can save you money that you might otherwise spend buying produce in the off-season. A root cellar is also environmentally…

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Lemony Meringue Cleansing Cream

This oil based cleansing cream is light and fluffy with a pleasing citrus scent. It is great for daily use on normal or oily skin. I do recommend following the use of this gentle cleanser with a toner or astringent for best results, mainly because this is an oil-based cleanser. This is my cleanser of choice every year when the warm weather hits. I generally follow this up with a home-made lemon…

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Make Your Own Citrus Salt Body Scrub

This body scrub smells great, and makes you feel wonderful. It exfoliates and moisturizes your skin, and leaves you feeling as clean and fresh as it smells. Even better, the scrub only takes a few minutes to make. This recipe makes four uses of body scrub, but you can easily multiply the recipe to make enough to give as gifts. If you are making a large batch of the salt rub, use dried citrus peel…

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