Monthly Archive: December 2015

Getting the best out of your seed catalogs

Seed catalogs can be your user’s guide to the garden, giving you information on how to plant, harvest dates and a pool of other necessary information.

Whether you like reading them online or in print form, seed and nursery catalogs provide information that can immensely increase output on the vegetable and orchard gardens. At first reading, catalogs may just look like collections of beautiful pictures, but don’t be deceived.…

8 Winter Gardening Tips You Must Read

While gardening is not for everybody, numerous individuals do appreciate keeping up a home garden or tending to a little space in the nearby group garden. Despite the fact that cultivating is most well known amid the late spring months, on the off chance that you decide to, you can have a greenery enclosure year round with an assortment of occasional vegetables and herbs.…

Winter Gardening in a Cold Climate

Winter is the customary decrepit season. Depending on the area you live, the weather constrained you from going out — it not extraordinary news for all you plant specialists out there. Be that as it may, you don’t need to abandon fresh greens plant throughout the winter season; you can even grow a little product of herbs and greens inside in cold atmospheres that can liven up your living space and keep you glad and solid as well.…

Keeping Healthy With Summer Squash

Squash has had a long legacy as a healthy staple food for thousands of years in North America. In fact, the Native Americans introduced squash to the European settlers and showed them its huge value.

Believe it or not, summer squash is related to melons and cucumbers, and belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae. A few different types of squash in existence include: cylindrical squash, patty pan squash, and constricted neck squash. Patty pan squash can be many colors, running the spectrum from green to yellow to white. Constricted neck squash, which itself comes in a few sub-varieties, can be green …

Guide to Saving Tomato Seeds

Most gardeners are contented with buying seeds or plants, grow them, and then harvest the yield. The bold ones among them rather choose to keep the full cycle of nature going uninterruptedly and will also keep seeds away from their plants in order to continue with the process the following year. Tomato gardeners are the most common seed savers of this group.

The reason is this; once you’ve gotten the right selection or have even formed your own that is particularly adaptable to your area and methods, you would not want to lose it. So you keep developing the seeds …

Combining the Curing Power of Garlic and Honey

Do you need something natural that can help strengthen your immune system to help you get over colds and other sicknesses faster? Mix garlic with a bit of honey into a container and keep it in your refrigerator. It barely costs a thing, takes hardly any effort to make, and a garlic / honey combination is exactly what you need to set your immune system into overdrive.

For centuries, both garlic and honey have been well-regarded as natural remedies for various ailments, and their power is only boosted when they are taken in combination.…

Why Not Grow Your Own Raspberries at Home?

There aren’t many fruits that trigger precious childhood memories quite the same way that raspberries do. A lot of people, especially those from Northern states, try raspberries for the first time in their wild form, during a romp in the woods with family, rather than from a package in their fridge.

You might have memories of relatives growing them, of picking them fresh off the bush and eating them as nature intended. Even if you don’t, though, and have always had to make a trip to the grocery store to get your supply, there’s something classic and unforgettable about the …