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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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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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Easy Care and Beauty of Climbing Hydrangeas
The climbing Hydrangea is a woody, vine species of hydrangea belonging to the Hydrangeaceae family. The plant is native to Japan, Siberia, and the…
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What Is A Composite Flower?
Briefly, a composite is a member of the composite family (Compositae or Asteraceae family).However, such a statement conveys little information to one who is…
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15 Small Plants For Hanging Baskets
Walk through a garden center and you’ll find all kinds of hanging baskets.Below is a collection of small plants, and how they can grow…
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Spring Fertilizing Tips
Laura walks us through fertilizing trees, shrubs, perennials in early spring. Wait until you see some growth on your plant to fertilize. 1. Gardening…
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Tomato Blight: Identification and Treatment
Tomato blight refers to a family of pathogens, caused by fungus which spreads through tomato foliage, often during wet weather.
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Top Five Houseplant starters
Some of you may already have a houseplant or two, which is wonderful. If you are starting from scratch, below are some great houseplants…
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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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Homemade Insecticidal Soap Recipe Choices
Did you know that home gardeners have been using homemade insecticidal soap for a long time? Fish-oil soap used to be the common solution…
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Best Plants For Container Gardening
In this article, we will discuss a dozen of the top picks for creating a container garden that delivers a powerful visual impact.
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How To Grow Your Own Organic Celery
Celery has a reputation as one of the most daunting vegetables to grow. In fact, many people like to grow it for the challenge…
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Outdoor Orchids For Shade Gardens
Hardy orchids are not for the faint-of-heart gardener but those who love plants have found success growing them as natives among a wildflower planting,…
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Topiary Trees – The Lost Art of Pruning
Topiary is found most of the time at large theme parks like Disney World because of a significant amount of time required to trim…
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Easy, Breezy Houseplants that Cool Your Home
While everyone loves being indoors in air conditioning on hot summer days, indoor spaces sometimes could use a good pop of plant life. Plus,…
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How To Care For The Beautiful Flowering Dogwood
The dogwood tree is an attractive tree in every season of the year. In the springtime, dogwood trees burst into full blooms blanketing the…
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Care Requirements For Shrimp Plant
Shrimp plant belongs to the genus Justicia and an evergreen shrub of the family Acanthaceae.
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The Importance Of Potassium For Plants
It’s simple, you need potassium for plants if you want healthy plants. It’s vital that you have the right amount of potassium in your…
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Growing And Care Of Roman or German Chamomile Flowers
it’s best to grow your own chamomile. It is so easy to grow, and when you produce it yourself you know, it is natural…
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Money Tree Care: Growing The Braided Money Plant [TIPS]
Like lucky bamboo, the indoor workhorse Dracaena deremensis ‘Janet Crag’ and other indoor plants, the money plant tree Pachira does well in indirect light…
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How Solar Powered Landscape Lighting
Adding solar powered landscape lighting and other features to your landscape is one of the easiest and most affordable ways to make excellent use…
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On Picking The Right Garden Fertilizer
Most soil usually does not contain enough nutrients to help plants reach optimum performance and growth levels. Even the very best garden soil becomes…
