home, garden, food, and prairie lifestyle
Every gardener faces a big dilemma every summer: How do you water your garden and keep it alive when you’re on holidays?
I’m sharing my five basic steps for plant care on vacation. These tips should keep your plants alive for a max of 3 days without rain and moderate temperatures. I’ll also give you suggestions for what to do if you’re gone for longer.
Weddings are expensive, and you’ll do anything to save money, right? While growing your own flowers sounds like a great way to cut costs, you need to be smart about it. I’ll show you all the things you need to consider, plus link to some fabulous DIY’s for your cake, boutonnieres, centrepieces, and bouquets.
What looks like a stretched blueberry, tastes like a combination of blueberries, raspberries, and rhubarb, and is delicious in baked goods?
Haskaps.
You may know them as honey berries.
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Are you fed up with spending all your free time weeding in your garden, only to have the area you weeded be full of weeds three days later? Would you like to be able to deal with the weeds once, with minimal upkeep for the rest of the season? Do you hate the thought of spraying harsh chemicals everywhere?
Here’s how to get rid of most of the weeds, and take back your summer.
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You’ve planted the seeds, carefully watered and weeded, and your vegetable garden is finally starting to come up. . . only to be demolished by a host of bugs, birds, and other critters.
What’s a gardener to do?
Sifting through the Internet for answers is like travelling down some strange vortex. There’s so many myths and folk remedies out there that you don’t know what to believe–especially if you’re looking for an organic solution.
I have travelled the vortex for you and come out on the other side…barely. This post is a compilation of some of the more reputable solutions out there for the garden foes you are battling. 