Natural Additives for Depleted Soil. I want to give you the “dirt” on your soil so that if you think the stuff your plants are growing in might need some help, you have an idea what to do.
Because no matter what, having good dirt is the number one thing you can provide your plants for optimal opportunity to flourish. How to Grow Blueberries. I grow a slew of both common and uncommon fruits, from apples to kiwis to pears to paw-paws.
I love them all, but if pressed to recommend just one must-grow fruit, it would be blueberries. These native Americans have stolen my heart for many reasons. The fruit is abundant and seductively sweet, especially when allowed to fully ripen on the shrub—a luxury commercial growers cannot afford. The shrubs make beautiful specimens in the landscape, not surprising considering their lineage to the mountain laurel, rhododendron, and azalea.
The Top 10 Healthiest Seeds on Earth. By John Summerly, They come in all different sizes, shapes and colours.
The seed is an embryonic plant itself and the origin of nutrition. A plant goes to great lengths to produce each seed and fill it with high concentrations of vitamins, minerals, proteins, essential oils and dormant enzymes. Sacred Lessons from the Bees, Honey Flows, and Honey Harvesting. I’ve been making the transition to Pennsylvania and to my new life here (I spoke of this transition in an earlier blog post).
Sorry for the delay in a regular weekly post–I’m back on track now, and have many wonderful things to share with you in the coming weeks. Today I’m going to talk about bees and share photos of my first honey harvest. Bees moving to their new home in early May! I’ve now been a beekeeper for over a year, and I have begun to deeply resonate with the honeybee. Honeybees are the most amazing, gentle creatures–they make everything from the plants, are extremely hard working, and extremely fascinating. Colony Collapse Disorder Is a Fraud: Pesticides Cause Bee Die-Offs. Heidi Stevenson, Green Med InfoWaking Times Years ago, Gaia Health informed that bee dieoffs are a direct result of pesticide nerve agents called neonicotinoids.
The term, Colony Collapse Disorder, is fraudulent, designed to direct attention from the known cause. Agribusiness, the poison manufacturers making death-producing pesticides, is the other face of Big Pharma. The massive bee die-off is not a great mystery. Permaculture Design Course - Regenerative Leadership Institute. A Way to Garden — Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach. Gardening. Guerrilla Gardening Troop Digs. A Way to Garden — Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach. Being An Urban Gardener: Creating A City Vegetable Garden - Gardening Know How. By Nikki Phipps (Author of The Bulb-o-licious Garden) Even if you’re an urban gardener with little space, you can still benefit from growing a city vegetable garden.
A window, balcony, patio, deck or roof receiving six or more hours of sun is all you need, in addition to a few containers. City Vegetable Gardening Designs The urban gardener can enjoy a city vegetable garden in various ways. 6 Strategies for Urban Vegetable Gardening. Room to grow: With a little planning, even the smallest of spaces can hold a veggie or herb garden.
City living has its ecobenefits: easy travel by foot and public transit, smaller homes that use less energy, and less living space in which to accumulate needless junk. But growing your own vegetables in an urban environment can be tricky when you don’t have a backyard. "Small-space gardening isn't simple," says Charlie Nardozzi, senior horticulturist for the National Gardening Association, "but it's not as difficult as some people might think.
" Nardozzi says that the introduction of miniature and dwarf vegetable varieties (you can find plants in most gardening-supply stores or order seeds from reputable companies) to your urban gardening program allows even the beginning gardener to grow tasty crops without the need for tons of space and soil.
Welcome To Urban Farming! Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program - Grants and Education. Welcome To Urban Farming! Urban Gardening Ideas And Information – Tips For Starting An Urban Garden. 12 Savvy Small-Space Urban Gardening Designs & Ideas. Think you gotta have a farm or even a large yard to grow enough fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs to feed your family all summer?
You’d be surprised how much food you can get out of the smallest of spaces – even when you live in an urban high-rise. From innovative vertical gardening systems to hanging pots and easy-access planters, these 12 small-space gardening solutions make homegrown produce possible no matter how tiny your outdoor space may be. Small but Expandable Step Garden (images via: urban garden) How do you squeeze every possible square inch of usable growing space out of a tiny balcony or deck? Pop Bottle Drip System (images via: you grow girl) Unless you’re really conscientious, it’s way too easy to accidentally kill plants growing in small pots under the brutal heat of the summer sun, especially in urban environments where reflected heat can dry out soil fast. Bloemen die nuttige insecten aantrekken. Benodigdheden.
Learn Organic Gardening at GrowingYourGreens. 22 Unbelievably Clever Gardening Cheats. Mulching. The Urban Organic Gardening Blog. Sustainable Urban Gardens. Gardening Hacks - 10 Simple Tips for a Successful Vegetable Garden. Mulchen: Goed voor de bodem. Fruit. 40 Inspiring DIY Herb Gardens. If you love to cook you most likely can’t live without fresh herbs.
You can buy them when you need them but it would be much better if you will always have them in pots near by. This way it’s much easier to mix them in small doses and add in all meals you’re cooking. Of course to have them on your kitchen or right outside your kitchen door you need to organize a thoughtful herb garden that also looks great. Zaden. Slakken. Kas. Kas. Ontginnen zonder spitten (3) Mulchen, een paar vraagjes. : Bodem en bemesting. Ik ben dit jaar begonnen met onrijpe compost als mulg.
Ben er helemaal happy mee. Mulchen, een paar vraagjes. : Bodem en bemesting. Fennel. It is a highly aromatic and flavorful herb with culinary and medicinal uses and, along with the similar-tasting anise, is one of the primary ingredients of absinthe.
Florence fennel or finocchio is a selection with a swollen, bulb-like stem base that is used as a vegetable. Fennel is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the mouse moth and the anise swallowtail. Etymology and names[edit] Identifying Several Herbs and Their Uses. Parsley Compound kills 86% of Lung Cancer Cells. By PAUL FASSA Worldwide, lung cancer is a devastating and exceedingly common form of cancer. It ranks as the number one cause of cancer deaths for adults in the United States. According to the American Lung Cancer Association, back in 1987 it replaced breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer deaths in women.
“Lung cancer causes more deaths than the next three most common cancers combined (colon, breast and pancreatic). An estimated 159,260 Americans are expected to die from lung cancer in 2014, accounting for approximately 27 percent of all cancer deaths” – American Lung Cancer Association. Seventy-five to eighty percent of lung cancer cases stem from a type of cancer called, non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Parsley Compound Kills Lung Cancer Cells and Acts as a Cancer Preventive. Outdoor Concrete Pots - The Wood Grain Cottage. Well, we’ve had a few days without the wind. I’m not sure how I’ve survived! I mean, we can actually walk outside without being blown away. I might have had one or two good hair days… And now that I’ve said that, I’m sure it will have to make its appearance. Let’s just pretend I didn’t say anything… I’ve been so anxious to start adding flowers and pots and outdoor pretties, that I couldn’t help myself from making a new pair of outdoor concrete pots.
Building a Greenhouse. Plan Ahead: Make Candle Planters For Your Patio — Family Chic. Cheap Patio idea - Sunset Mobile. An outdoor "area rug" of stained concrete pavers replaced a tired lawn in the back of our 1930s bungalow in Santa Monica. And it solved a major, if temporary, problem. Because the back entrance of our house leads to a home office, lots of foot traffic had trampled the lawn. And our dog, Stella, regularly tracked grass and mud into the house. Territorial Seed. Mulching. Nieuw in moestuinland : Bodem en bemesting. Natural Wood Raised Garden. Top 10 Recommended Grasses Grow. Posted By Andrew McIndoe @ 7:41 on August 17th 2015 Category: Blog, Ornamental grasses Our Top 10 Recommended Grasses Grow Love them or loathe them, grasses have become essential subjects in today’s planting palette, mainly because they mix well with perennials in prairie style schemes, adding light height and movement, especially later in the year.
HOW TO... Gardening advice & suggestions. Transplanting. Windowsill Sprouting my way through the Winter. My orchids are dark speckled and bruised from the cold. The flowery Lantana shrubs are like coarse twine unraveled in a pile on the ground. The tall ornamental grasses, which I love for their swaying grace, stand in stiff bunches like little scarecrows scattered across the lawn. My herbs…oh, let’s not even go there (I think thyme and cilantro are barely holding on). Then there’s the pile of dead and crispy Christmas trees strewn around the fire pit. We like to collect the discarded trees at the end of the season and use them for firewood throughout the winter, but right now, as I look out across the pathetic winter landscape of our backyard, they only add to the overall state of things. Growing Tomatoes, How to Grow Tomatoes, Planting Tomatoes. Best Indoor Plants. Harris Seeds. Seedstarting FAQs, How to Start Seeds, Growing from Seed.
Top 10 Recommended Grasses Grow. Repurpose a Soda Bottle Into a DIY Irrigation System. How to Start a Vegetable Garden - Vegetable Garden Plans. 10 plantas para limpiar el aire de tu casa. How to start plants from seed indoors to transplant in the garden later. El invento ecológico que destronó al iPad. Quizás no conozcas el invento que fue elegido el mejor del año 2012 por la revista Popular Science por delante del mismísimo iPad.
Es Groasis Waterboxx, el invento de Pieter Hoff, un empresario holandés que tuvo una magnífica visión al observar una gota de rocío sobre el pétalo de una flor. Gardening. Planting Plant 2 seeds per small starting pot, or scatter seeds across the top of the mix in a seed tray. 11 Plants That Repel Mosquitoes. The days are finally getting longer, the snow is (slowly!) Tips and Advice on Outdoor Gardening, Flower Gardens, Plants, & Seeds - Dave's Garden. Container gardening vegetables indoor outdoor gardens. Seeding. Attracting Hummingbirds. Fantastic Invention: Honey on Tap Directly from Your Beehive. Most Expensive Specialty Crops in the World - Insider Monkey.
Keep Plants Watered for Days with Nothing But Paper Towels. How to Start a Vegetable Garden - Vegetable Garden Plans. TDG ~ Telling the Bees. Starting Vegetable Seeds in a Greenhouse. Tropicals & House Plants. Heirloom Seeds: Sustainably Grown, Organic, Untreated and Open-Pollinated Sustainable Seed Company. DIY Mason Jar Beekeeping. Wildflowers. Most Expensive Specialty Crops in the World - Insider Monkey. Top 10 Recommended Grasses Grow. Gardening. Ten Commandments of Butterfly Gardening. Tips and Advice on Outdoor Gardening, Flower Gardens, Plants, & Seeds - Dave's Garden. Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - 1400 heirloom garden seeds! Gardening, plants, orchids. Are Mushrooms the Solution to the Worldwide Bee Colony Collapse? Keep Bees, Naturally! Grow Your Own Bee Garden: 7 Tips for a Bee-Friendly Habitat.