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- Raspberry Tips and Tricks
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The small amount of work you put into your raspberry patch is well rewarded. Have you seen the cost of raspberries in the grocery store? You can go big if you like, or keep your patch small by starting with half a dozen strong cultivars from the greenhouse. A small garden is easier to care for than a great big one, and so worth your time.
- To Deadhead Or Not to Deadhead - That is a Sticky Question
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] OK, you have a flower garden. You want showy color all summer because you love the look of all those blossoms swaying gently in the breeze. Your plants, on the other hand, are interested in growing as fast as they can and setting seeds so they can perpetuate the species. Interrupt evolution by deadheading your flower garden!
- 14 More Tips For Happy Tomato Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Just dropping in for a few more fascinating facts and useful tomato tips. Enjoy your tomato garden!
- 11 Tomato Problems and Simple Solutions
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A quick and dirty explanation of 11 common tomato problems. Organic solutions suggested!
- Successful Blueberry Tips and Tricks
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Blueberries must be planted where they have full sunlight most or part of the day and in acid soils (pH 4.5-5.5) that are well grained, porous and high in organic matter. They are shallow-rooted plants and must be irrigated, heavily mulched, or planted in soil with a high water table. However, they can not tolerate standing in water.
- Strawberries Part II - Fall Care and Disease Control
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Part I dealt with transplanting a new strawberry patch and summer care. Part II deals with fall care and disease control.
- Strawberries Part I - Transplanting and Early Care
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Part I walks you through transplanting and summer care of your strawberry patch. Part II details fall and winter care and some common strawberry diseases that may attack you - um, I mean your strawberries.
- Morning Glories and Moon Flowers - Vining Plants, No Long Commitments
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Create a vining haven filled with scent and dappled light! Pull up a comfy chair and a nice cup of tea and enjoy your vining flower garden.
- Hummingbird Feeders - Keep Your Little Buddies Happy
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Hummingbirds are little, but they sure do eat a lot! The most important thing to remember about your hummingbird feeder is to keep refilling it. Here are six more tips to keep your new buddies happy, and to entertain yourself endless hours watching them flit in for a sip and zoom right back out again.
- Eating and Drinking Dandelions
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The common dandelion (taraxacum officinale, also known as Lion's tooth, priest's crown, and swine's snout) is a tough little plant that reproduces itself with the slightest puff of wind. While this may be good for perpetuating the species, it also means the dandelion can take over your yard... and your neighbor's yard... and perhaps the whole world... in just a couple of seasons.
- Glitz Up Your Garden With These Accessory Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Whether your flower garden is 50 feet long or in a five gallon bucket, you can transform a pleasing arrangement into something truly spectacular with "accessory" plants. Hey, you wouldn't put on an evening gown and leave your diamond rings at home, right?
- Create a Yellow and Orange Flower Garden With These Seven Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Creating a yellow and orange blooming flower garden is a pleasing effect. By simply choosing different plants that bloom in the same part of the color wheel, you look like a master gardener - and it is so simple!
- Create a Scented Flower Garden With These Six Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There are many plants to choose from when creating a garden that delights the nose as well as the eyes. Here are six favorites you can plant together to make a "sense-sational" blooming garden.
- 1991 Perennial of the Year - Palace Purple Coral Bells (Heuchera)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Palace Purple Heuchera is a fabulous plant for any perennial garden. Growing Heuchera is so simple, and these plants reappear year after year even as far north as Zone 3 (Minnesota).
- 1996 Perennial of the Year - Husker's Red Penstemon
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There is a good reason the Husker's Red Penstemon was chosen as the 1996 Perennial of the Year. This easy-care perennial thrives in semi-shady conditions and does not need a lot of fussy care.
- Dandelions - Friend Or Foe?
[Reference-and-Education] Before you declare chemical warfare on the dandelions in your yard, consider that they may just want to be friends! Dandelions are an interesting addition to herbal remedy lore, not just an irritating weed.
- Hosta Happiness - Dividing and Transplanting
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Hosta happiness will warm the shady places in your yard all summer long. These are the first to pop up in the spring, and their green or variegated leaves stay bright all summer long.
- Hosta Happiness - Why You Should Grow These Awesome Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Hosta happiness is easy to attain with these bright, low-maintenance plants. That out-of-the-way spot in your yard will thank you for adding a little color.
- Rhubarb - Continuing Care and Harvesting
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Rhubarb may be low-maintenance, but it does require food and water. Here are a few tips on how to care for your plants for years to come.
- Rhubarb - Transplanting and First Year's Care
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Rhubarb is just about the easiest fruit plant to grow. Put it in the ground and forget about it for a generation - it still comes up every year and the tender spring stalks make delicious desserts.
- Building a Successful Compost Pile
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Save money and make your own compost. A small heap is simple and cheap to make, and your vegetable or flower garden will be so much happier for having a little extra nutrition. Here's how to build a successful heap of this wonderful stuff.
- 6 Tips For Using Compost and How to Care For Your Working Pile
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] As with everything in the garden, a little attention and love goes a long way toward success. Here's how to keep your compost pile happy all year round. Plus, I give you 6 tips for using this nutritious goodness on a regular basis.
- Peonies - Two Real Problems and One You Don't Need to Worry About
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Peonies are easy-care perennials, but every once in a while you may encounter a problem. Here are two real problems and one you don't need to worry about.
- Peonies - Planting, Staking and Deadheading
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Peonies are classic garden perennials, prized for their handsome foliage, longevity and huge blooms in late spring. Their fragrant and long-lasting blooms grace your home on the bush and when cut. They're deer and drought resistant, too. Lovely!
- Peonies - Fall and Winter Care and Dividing
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A few words on where to plant peonies in your yard, fall and winter care, and dividing peonies. I like the bubblegum pinks, myself!
- Geraniums - 7 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A big pot of red zonal geraniums is an eye-popping spot of color. Two pots next to the mailbox is a friendly welcome! These versatile plants are ideal for window boxes, hanging baskets, wheelbarrows, plumbing fixtures, you name it. They are also excellent performers in memorial boxes.
- Using Herbs For Pest Prevention
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] 18 different nasty pests. 36 different herbs for pest prevention.
- Catnip - Not Just For Feline Friends
[Food-and-Drink:Tea] Catnip is best known for its mysterious effect on cats, but it's also a useful herb for humans. Catnip tea warms you, settles your stomach, and relieves gas and bloating. Combine it with other known digestive herbs, and you've got a wonderful herbal tea.
- Oregon Grape Root - It's Not What You Think
[Food-and-Drink:Tea] Oregon Grape Root reduces inflammation and kills bacteria. Doctors in the United States, Canada and Britain have looked at its properties in actual studies involving humans, and now think it might have some cancer fighting ability. I guess you can make jelly out of anything, but...
- 14 Tips to Grow Happy Sweet Pepper Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Just dropping in to let you know 14 tips to grow happy sweet pepper plants. Enjoy your garden!
- Lavender - Try it in the Kitchen For a Beautiful Flavor
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] Dried lavender leaves and flowers are commonly used in potpourri and sachets. In the kitchen, lavender is an essential ingredient in herbes de Provence, and a teaspoon of finely crushed dried leaves sprinkled on a vegetable stew right at the end is a surprisingly wonderful addition. Lavender is a must in many herbal tea infusion blends.
- Basil - Your Favorite Kitchen Herb
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Basil is a great herb to use fresh or dried in almost any style of cooking. Over the centuries of history, basil has been known as everything from deadly poison to a token of undying romantic love. Early Greek and Roman physicians believed that basil would thrive if you shouted vile curses while sowing the seeds. Culpeper, an herbalist who is quoted endlessly, said that basil had an affinity for poison, and that scorpions were drawn to it.
- Oregano - Yummy, Sure, But Healthy?
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] If you're like me, YOU are your primary health care physician. If our economy continues in its current direction, there is no question there will be more people directly in charge of their own health care, which is why I find myself researching natural things that will help when I am ill.
- On Father's Day, Give Your Guy the Gift of Plants
[Shopping-and-Product-Reviews:Gifts] Last year I gave my sweetie a whole mess of starter plants for his (our) garden, and we celebrated that Father's Day gift far into the winter with canned tomatoes and dried herbs. You can bet he'll get an even bigger variety of plants this year.
- Brandywine Tomatoes - Get the Most From This Heirloom Variety
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Have you heard the buzz about heirloom tomato varieties? Try these simple tips to make growing Brandywine tomatoes a straightforward proposition.
- 14 Tips to Grow Happy Tomato Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Just dropping in for a quick list of successful tomato-growing tips. Enjoy!
- Stinging Nettle Tea - If You Dare!
[Food-and-Drink:Tea] The Stinging Nettle grows in ditches, vacant lots, and junkyards. What the heck good is it? Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) is a nasty plant to run into. The finely toothed leaves growing on its two foot stems are covered with downy hair and sharp spines. Each spine is a hollow needle filled with venom. If you touch the plant, the venom feels like a bee sting and produces a red rash.
- General Tips - Harvesting and Storing Fresh Herbs
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Once your herb garden is established, you'll constantly be faced with the happy problem of how to deal with such abundance. It's not much trouble to cut off a nice handful of basil and freeze it, just to keep the plant from bolting in summer heat, so don't wait on the job. Keep up with harvesting and your herbs will produce more and be much happier.
- General Tips - Starting Your Own Herbs From a Seed
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] They say you should talk to your plants, indoors or out, to make them happy. I don't know if my long, deep, philosophical discussions make my plants happy, but they sure do make my neighbors laugh right out loud. Sometimes it takes a little coaxing to get a baby herb to peek its little head above the dirt. And sometimes they hear as well as a husband when you ask him to take out the garbage....
- General Tips - Cultivating Herbs Indoors
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Cultivating herbs indoors isn't as difficult as one would think. Herbs require little attention except occasional, thorough watering and a good haircut when needed. Your family will appreciate good cooking flavored with homegrown herbs, and if you're really adventurous, you can cultivate tea herbs.
- Milk Thistle - It Does Have Redeeming Qualities
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Little did I know when I declared war on the Milk Thistles growing in my yard, I was trying to eradicate a medicinal tea herb! Here is an update on the continuing saga of the Milk Thistle War at my house.
- English Breakfast Tea - The Refined Morning Beverage
[Food-and-Drink:Tea] Wake up, light the burner under the teapot, and wait for the water to start humming. A cup of English Breakfast tea awaits your taste buds, a gentle wake up call for your mind to engage gears for the day.
- Marjoram - Don't Overlook This Sweet Herb
[Food-and-Drink:Cooking-Tips] Sweet marjoram is a must in your herb cupboard. It has a sweeter and milder flavor than oregano, with a slightly balsamic flavor. It is one of the essential herbs in Italian cooking, and a main ingredient in herbes de provence along with basil, tarragon, thyme, lavender and fennel. If you haven't tried this particular herb mix, it is absolutely wonderful.
- Bee Balm - Queen of the Herbal Teas
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Monarda (Monarda didyma, also known as bee balm, bee bread, false bergamot, and Oswego tea) is a perennial that is easy to grow, and it's not known as "Bee Balm" for nothing. Bees will find it anywhere. Monarda is a member of the mint family.
- Drink Your Marigolds!
[Food-and-Drink:Tea] Marigold flowers lend a wondrous note of joy to the garden, but they aren't just prized for their golden beauty. Marigold also makes a great addition to teas that calm the stomach.
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