Health
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How to Keep Your Plants Alive in Fall and Winter
When reading the post, you’ll know how to care for winter plants, and what conditions to create to ensure their health and survival in…
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Analyze Your Home's Microclimate for Plants
In the microclimate of today’s modern home, houseplants can serve dual purposes – cleaning air plus adding beauty, color and life to a room.
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Benefits of Getting Outdoors
If you’re curious about the health benefits you can reap from being outside, read on! Below, we cover 13 reasons to soak up everything…
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Benefits of Container Gardening
Container gardening is the next big thing, and it allows you to create gorgeous garden arrangements with minimal effort, and a lot less money…
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Sedum Autumn Fire Growing And Care
The post Sedum Autumn Fire [Autumn Fire Stonecrop] Growing And Care appeared first on Plant Care Today. Sedum “Autumn Fire” is a succulent belonging…
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Popular Houseplants for a Healthy Home
Do you want to use plastic plants in your home, or popular houseplants? Real plants contribute to a healthy home. Plastic plants are easier…
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How to Create a Relaxing Backyard
By Guest Author Harper Reid Backyards are meant to be a relaxing haven, a place for the entire family to enjoy. Picture an oasis,…
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Introduction To The Many Benefits of Gardening
There are many benefits to gardening. You become in tune with nature. Teaching responsibility through the care of plants. And, there are many health…
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Beekeeping 101: How to Start an Urban Beehive
Keeping an urban beehive in a town or city may seem like a strange idea, as our first thought may be that bees would…
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Styling and Care Tips for Enjoyment Of Houseplants
One big plus with houseplants is they can be enjoyed all year long. However, a few simple tips can let you enjoy them more……
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Optimize Fruit Tree Soils for Best Production
Of all things necessary to grow fruit trees – or anything else, for that matter – soil is perhaps one of the most overlooked…
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Kids Gardening: The Value Children Learning To Garden
There are lots of good reasons for kids gardening. It’s good to garden with your children and to set them up with small plant…
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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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Treating Sticky Leaves on Houseplants
If you’re a plant owner, then chances are that you’ve experienced sticky plants and sticky residue on plant leaves at some point. There are…
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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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How To Start, Germinate and Care for Seeds
How to start seeds, germinate, grow, and care for them is a gardener’s life skill. Many plants and vegetables fare better when started indoors…
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Planting Guides – Forage for Honey Bees
Abundant and healthy populations of pollinators can improve fruit set and quality, and increase fruit size. In farming situations this increases production per acre.…
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Garden Edging For Landscaping: Guide, Tips & Ideas
Yard edging is giving plants their space to grow no matter how small, or large the landscape is. Not sure how to edge your…
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Fern Care Guide
Photo by: Lesley Davidson We all love ferns, they are a classic houseplant. Ferns come in all kinds of sizes, textures and colors. Yet…
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Learn How To Grow Sedum Plants
These easy-care, low-water plants are found in the Northern Hemisphere, but some members are native to South America and Africa.
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What is ‘Extra Virgin’: Demystifying Olive Oil
Olive Oil has been produced for thousands of years. Originally, olive oil was used as lampante or lamp oil. Production was largely centralized to…
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How to Prune Blueberries
To get a great crop of blueberries every year, one also has to prune the shrubs every winter. Not spring or fall, but during…
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On Buying Compost Bins
Invariably organic gardeners face the question, which type of compost bin should I buy? A stationary bin or tumbler? And how large?