7 Bee Watering Station Ideas to Provide Drinking Water for Bees
From sun up to sun down, bees are doing important work for the health and safety of the hive. Foraging bees will travel up to 5 miles from the colony …
Lindsay Sheehan
4 Important Ways to Extend the Life of Your Wooden Raised Beds
Of all the ways to garden, raised beds remain one of the most popular approaches to growing food and flowers. Among its numerous merits, raised bed gardening keeps things neat …
Grow Your Vitamins – 20 Most Nutrient Dense Veggies to Grow in Your Garden
One astonishing thing we discover early on in our gardening odyssey is what fruits and vegetables should actually taste like. What we buy from the store is a shockingly watered-down …
8 DIY Butterfly Feeder Ideas + 5 More Ways To Attract Butterflies
Butterflies are among the most appealing insects found in nature. As indispensable members of the beneficial insect crew, butterflies are essential pollinators that pick up tiny grains of pollen on …
7 Ways to Get Rid of Silverfish Once and For All
Lurking in the dark and damp underbellies of the home, silverfish are six-legged scaly insects that only come out at night. Perhaps you’ve gone into your kitchen for a midnight …
5 Early Signs of Aphids & 10 Ways To Get Rid Of Them
Out of all the pests that can plague a garden, aphids are just the worst. They don’t munch on the leaves or fruit but literally suck the life out of …
4 Reasons to Grow Dill & How to Do It
Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb with an unmistakable flavor and aroma. The complex scent is a mash-up of other members of the Apiaceae family – a bit of …
10 Flower Seeds You Can Direct Sow Outside
Filling your garden with an abundance of gorgeous flowers can be as simple as scattering seeds on the ground in spring. It’s really that easy. Pick a sunny site, amend …
How to Get Rid of Ants in the House: 8 Ways that Work
Ants are among the world’s most successful animals. With more than 13,000 known species to date (and thousands more still to be discovered), ants are found on every landmass except …
18 Ways You Never Knew to Use a Bar of Soap
Dirt, grease, and grime are no match for the sudsy cleaning action of soap. But a bar of soap is no one-trick pony – it can do all sorts of …
10 Plants For Your Bathroom & 3 That Won’t Survive There
Humans have been bringing plants inside the home for thousands of years. Not only do they clean the air and brighten up a room, they carry all sorts of intangible …
22 Tips to Keep Your Poinsettia Looking Great This Holiday Season & Beyond
The poinsettia is one of the most popular festive plants to put on display over the holidays – second only to the iconic Christmas Tree! The fiery red and deep …
Grow Soap: 8 Saponin Rich Plants That Can Be Made Into Soap
The basic recipe for making soap has been the same for thousands of years. Combining plant or animal fats with an alkali causes a chemical transformation, a process known as …
How to Grow Pineberries – The White Strawberry With A Tropical Flavor
Most everyone loves a good strawberry. These sweet-as-can-be, red-fleshed fruits are as sumptuous eaten out of hand as they are prepped into a smorgasbord of yummy recipes. There are hundreds …
7 Reasons To Grow Sphagnum Moss & How To Grow It
Sphagnum mosses are an utterly unique and fascinating genus of bog-dwelling plants. Perhaps you’re most familiar with them in their dried form. The light brown, fibrous, stringy bits are widely …
7 Productive Things To Do With An Empty Raised Bed In Fall & Winter
By now, things are starting to wind down in the garden. There’s a nip in the air and soon you’ll be harvesting your last vegetable and pulling up your spent …
How To Grow & Harvest Lemon Balm: The Total Guide
Once dubbed the “elixir of life”, lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is an ancient herb from the mint family that has been used as a medicine, and as a flavoring for …
How to Grow Enormous Basil Plants: From Seed, Cuttings Or Starter Plant
Basil is sometimes referred to as “the king of herbs”. And no wonder. Basil is easy to care for and will quickly grow into big, bushy plants that abound in …
How to Grow Thyme From Seed, Cuttings Or Starter Plant
The aroma of thyme is pleasant and complex – peppery and a little sweet with woody, earthy, minty and flowery notes. Flavor-wise, it lands somewhere between lavender and rosemary. For …
4 Reasons To Stop Using Peat Moss & 7 Sustainable Alternatives
In the world of horticulture, peat moss possesses many qualities we want in a growing medium. Peat moss has a lightweight and spongy texture. It has the uncanny ability to …
7 Surprisingly Brilliant Uses For Rhubarb Leaves
Rhubarb is an easy to grow vegetable that’s right at home in the perennial food garden. Plant it once and it will produce for decades, growing nicely alongside other forever …
21 Brilliant Uses For Rosemary You’ve Got To Try
Exuding that telltale sweet piny fragrance, rosemary is an easy plant to grow that demands very little from the home gardener. And because a single plant can grow at least …
How To Grow, Harvest & Eat Litchi Tomatoes
Nature really is a mad scientist. Take the litchi tomato as a prime example of a smattering of weird and wonderful traits, all in one plant. With its deeply lobed …
How to Grow Massive Bunches of Parsley From Seed Or Starter Plant
Widely cultivated as an herb, spice, and vegetable, parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is so much more than a decorative garnish. Native to the Mediterranean region, its name is derived from Greek …