Growing Basil From Cuttings
Growing Basil Cuttings Winter is coming. Growing basil cuttings from your outdoor plants will make sure you have fresh basil to use indoors throughout the season.
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
Digging Horseradish Roots for Winter
Digging Horseradish Roots for Winter Digging horseradish roots for winter serves two purposes. Preparing horseradish sauce and also storing the root for those that DO NOT get frost.
Growing Cactus Outdoors in Cold Weather Climates
I was giggling when I overheard an employee at our local home improvement store telling a customer that you couldn’t grow any form of cactus outdoors in Wisconsin. Oh, really? I beg to differ. Growing...
Collect Seeds From Your Rhubarb Plant
Collect Seeds From Your Rhubarb Plant Question. “Can we plant the seed that is growing from our rhubarb?” Short answer. Yes, you can. However, there is a certain time to collect seeds from your rhubarb...
Grow Rhubarb From Seed From Your Own Plant
Grow Rhubarb From Seed From Your Own Plant Did you know you could harvest seeds from your rhubarb plants? Well, you can. Grow rhubarb from seed!
Repotting a Money Plant
Repotting a Money Plant Today, I’m repotting a money plant. The money tree plant is a hardy, climbing plant that will grow in just about any soil or even flourish in water. Besides being called...
Starting and Maintaining a Raspberry Patch
Starting and Maintaining a Raspberry Patch Living directly in town I don’t have a lot of space to grow raspberries. I searched for ways for starting and maintaining a raspberry patch with little effort. Raised...
Stone Crock Flower Pots
Stone Crock Flower Pots One of my favorite planters of all time. The old style crocks. Stone crock flower pots rock! I have one crock planted with red geraniums every year on the cement pad...
Old Wash Tub Flower Pots
Old Wash Tub Flower Pots I use old washtub flower pots and aluminum pails that I pick up at thrift shops and at yard sales all the time. I will always purchase a few here and there...
Composting with Worms
Composting with Worms Have you heard about composting with worms? Vermicomposting? Worm farming? It is a wonderful eco-friendly way to create nutrient-rich vermicompost. Plus, worm tea for your soil.
Straw Bale Garden
I am wholeheartedly committed to growing all the fresh produce that I can this growing season. This led me on a hunt to locate ways to achieve my goal. A straw bale garden is my...
Sharpening Your Garden Shovel
Sharpening Your Garden Shovel Spending 5 minutes of time per year sharpening your garden shovel can eliminate your backbreaking work by digging deeper and dividing painless.
Storing Dahlias Over Winter
Storing Dahlias Over Winter Many types of dahlias do not survive the snowy cold winters here. We have to lift them out of the dirt or purchase new ones come spring. I wrote up a...
Planting Horseradish Root
Planting Horseradish Root In this article I will go over basic planting horseradish root. I’ll tell you where to obtain horseradish root, when and where to plant, and basic care for your root.
How to Start and Care for a Rhubarb Plant
How to Start and Care for a Rhubarb Plant I received a question via e-mail from a fellow gardener asking general questions about starting & maintaining Rhubarb plants. Someone knows I grow mammoth rhubarb plants :)....