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Building a Home Vegetable Garden
If you have a garden of your own, getting access to fresh fruits and vegetables is convenient, but what if you live in an…
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Mindful Gardening Outdoors and Inside
We all know now that gardens and gardening enhance the wellbeing and happiness of people. That includes enjoying not only the beauty and the…
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7 Best Kitchen Herbs for Cooking That You Can Grow Yourself
Cooking with fresh herbs and spices does not have to be complicated or expensive. You can also have an indoor herb garden, especially if…
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Veggie Bites – A Egg!
As I opened up their enclosure, I noticed something that made my day. An egg!! They had not laid any eggs since late November.…
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Pimento Peppers
The Pimento pepper is one of my favourite peppers. It starts as a small green pepper, then turns bright red or cherry pepper with…
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Best Nutrients for Growing Vegetables
Whether you are growing vegetables in a traditional garden or growing vegetables with hydroponics, the proper nutrients can help with higher yields, sweeter vegetables…
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Top Beautiful Fall Plants For Your Garden
These 5 beautiful plants to have around this fall are in vibrant shades of yellow, orange, red with late blooms providing pops of colour.…
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24 Flowers For September and October
Visit your local nurseries in September and October and you’ll see plenty of spring-flowering bulbs for sale to be planted in fall. But live…
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Growing Your Garden with some Chickens
If you own some of our known feathered friends, consider growing a garden with and for your chickens! It comes with great advantages for…
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Having Outdoor Living Space That’s Fun and Functional
Create an indoor and outdoor living space you love. Use these tips to build or re-design your porch or patio so you can enjoy every…
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How To Grow Succulent Plants Outdoors
Dramatic, bizarre garden succulents lend themselves perfectly to the enhancing of contemporary architecture. Once banished to the rock garden, these plants are becoming more…
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Giving and Getting: Why we Volunteer
Gardeners are specialists in growing things that enrich the soul and the body too.
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Cilantro – Love it or Hate it
Cilantro – Easy to grow and wonderful to eat. You get two herbs in one.
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The Ramble at 20 – Passion and Opportunity
In the mid 1970’s, Rob Caron, a horticulturist, and David Dunn, an architect met and set out to build a life together. Sharing a…
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Seeds! Glorious Seeds!
It is the dark days of February and it is now time to look ahead to the new year. Like most gardeners, my fingernails…
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Plants that Repel Insects and Pests
Companion Plants that Repel Insect and Mammals Pests
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Flowering Cactus: How To Make Cactus Bloom [All Year Round]
The cactus flower, it can be difficult to get spiky desert cactus to bloom when you keep them as houseplants. The reason is that…
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Making a Difference, One Bird at a Time
by Kathy Felkar Volunteer at the Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory Slowly removing my head from my pillow in the dead dark of pre-dawn,…
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The Devastating Effects of Deforestation
The modern development of roads, real estate projects, buildings, bridges, and other man-made structures has resulted in rapid deforestation resulting in climate change, aka…
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Dehydrator Recipes for Storing Food
Dehydration is the best way to store food for the long-term. We scoured our favorite homesteading sites to find the best recipes for the…
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How To Care For ZZ Plant
The ZZ Plant – Zamioculcas zamiifolia one very popular foliage plant used in homes and offices around the world.
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GROWING AND CARING FOR GREEN BEANS
When it comes to growing beans, there are many different types of beans that can be grown in your garden or even inside the…
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Plants to Help Improve Indoor Air Quality
People are increasingly concerned with the quality of air in the indoor spaces in which they spend significant amounts of time.
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On Using Ornamental Grasses In The Landscape
The many different varieties of interesting grasses provide an easy way to add color and contrast to a monochrome landscape setting. Grasses are very…
