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Growing Herbs For Tea: A How-To Guide
As winter approaches, it’s an ideal time to start growing herbs for herbal tea. Growing herbs for tea at home gives gardeners ways to mix and match subtle flavors to their own preferences. For caffeine lovers, herbs grown at home can complement loose leaf black and green teas in custom [...]
Composting Is The Key To A Beautiful Home Garden
Are you tired of throwing all your kitchen scraps into the garbage? Food waste is a huge issue, but there’s a simple answer to reducing its impact: composting. It’s slightly more complicated than throwing everything in a bucket – but only slightly. It will also benefit [...]
It’s Fall Harvest Time For Home Gardening
One look at your home garden will let you know that summer is gone, and the fall harvest is ramping up. This is the time of year that always puts me in the mood for hearty vegetables roasted in the oven, blended into soups or served up alongside a beautifully-crisp [...]
Not Everything You Need To Know About Plant Care Comes On The Tag
Think back to the last time you bought a plant from a nursery. Did you look closely at the plastic plant care tag that was stuck haphazardly into the dirt? Or did you just pull it out (if it even had one) and toss it aside? Especially for experienced gardeners, [...]
How to Interpret Fertilizer Labels: No Degree Required
Fertilizer labels can be intimidating. They are standardized by a code of numbers that are supposed to tell you the percentages of nutrients in them. These nutrients, known as NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium), are essential for plants to grow, but different plants need [...]
