Cheap, Easy Seed Starter Pot Ideas – The internet is full of ideas for seedling pots. Here are a couple of really good ones that I’ve found.
Winter Got You Down? Try Growing Grass Indoors – January always gets me down. With the bustle and festivities of Christmas behind me and spring a blip on the horizon, I always feel a bit of Seasonal Affective Disorder this time of year. However, there are so many ways …
Container Gardening Ideas: Make Garden Accents From Pruned Branches — January and February is usually garden cleanup time around my house. When the foliage is gone from woody plants, I can see their structure better and I can tell what wayward branches need to be lopped away. This is also …
Caring for Christmas Trees — This Christmas, if you are using a live tree instead of a plastic one, you are essentially bringing a new plant into your home. Caring for this plant is vital during the Christmas Holidays. Improper care of a Christmas tree …
Inexpensive Holiday Gifts, Right From Your Garden — I love making homemade holiday gifts, especially ones that use herbs straight from my herbal container garden. Right now is the best time to start on those gifts, since most of the herbal recipes that I use take a little …
Helping Potted Plants Survive Drought Conditions on a Budget — Drought times are especially tricky for container gardeners. Plants in pots have less soil volume and less access to water than plants placed in the ground. If your area is experiencing a drought, the local city may have started water …
Too Hot to Fire Up the Stove? Make Bruschetta from your Garden! — For some reason, the kitchen in my house is not as well-insulated as the rest of the building. This isn’t a problem in winter, when my cooking experiments heat the whole room. But when the temperatures outside are 105 degrees …
Quick and Easy Garden Salsa — On my anniversary, my husband took me to a restaurant that served fresh salsa prepared with tomatoes that had been mesquite grilled before serving. The result was a rich, smoky taste that I just loved. Salsa is one condiment that …
Making Herbal Sachets — When it’s hot outside and I don’t feel like going outdoors to garden, it’s a good time for drying herbs and making sachets. Good herbs for herb sachets include Lavender, Mint, Rosemary, lemon balm, lemon verbena, scented geranium and chamomile. …
Container Garden Hints for Pollinating Insects — I can remember as a teen seeing a picture in a social studies book of a person in Japan hand-pollinating cherry trees. The caption stated that in some parts of the world, farmers hand pollinate trees because the numbers of …
Taking Pictures of Flowers – So Easy a Monkey Can Do it? — There’s an old story that goes like this: The Company that made the first portable personal camera rented a bunch of monkeys. When the time came to premiere their new product, they had the monkeys all carry the cameras into …
Photographing Flowers – More Tricks and Tips — You’re trying to take pictures of an exquisite white rose, and ending up with an image that looks more like a cotton ball. It’s probably not powdery mildew. Instead, it’s your picture taking technique. Yesterday I wrote about the importance …
Combination Planters – A high-Impact Solution to No Space — If you are a container gardener like the kind that I used to be, you may have limited space to garden in. As a result, your balcony or patio may be crowded with bottles, jars and flower pots. One great …
Setting up an Irrigation Kit — Over the past few days, I have written about drip irrigation systems for watering your patio or balcony garden. Drip systems are a good time saver, and once you have one set up it will give your plants a consistent …
Pruning Tomato Plants — If you are growing indeterminate tomatoes in your garden, you will eventually have to prune them. Indeterminate tomato vines can grow up to 8 feet long. These vines also produce sucker side shoots. Pruning away the side shoots keeps the …
Fairy Gardens – Little Wonders in Containers — If you have younger kids in your home and you love container gardens, one good way to give them the gardening bug is to help them plant a fairy garden. A fairy garden is a miniature garden setting planted in …
Lighting African Violets — When you look at all of the different colors and shapes of African Violets on a shelf in your local garden center, you may think that there are hundreds of varieties. But in reality, there are only six types of …
Starting African Violet Cuttings — If you want to grow your own African violet, you can get one started from a single leaf of an existing plant. Select a healthy leaf from the center of the plant and snap it free of the crown. Make …
Theme Containers – Plant a Pizza Garden — Gardening can be quite serious, if you want it to be. But when you are worrying about sterilizing soil and pulling weeds, remember that gardening is suppose to be fun. One fun project that you can plant in your container …
Mother’s Day: How to Keep a Potted Azalea Alive — Mother’s day is this weekend and many mothers will receive a potted azalea for mother’s day. At least some of the mothers who have these plants will care for them until they wilt, then throw them out. But with proper …
Leaf Casting: A Fun Project for Hosta and Elephant Ear Leaves — Over the past two days, I’ve written articles about growing hostas in containers, and what to do if your hostas develop crown rot. Now seems like a good time to write about casting leaves in concrete. Hosta leaves are a …
Designing your Container Garden: Use the Color Wheel — When you consider that a plant can change color several times in a season, designing with color is a complex task in a container garden. Plants may be green, but they can produce flowers in a riot of colors and …
Herbal Tea Recipes — Over the past two days I’ve written about growing your own herbs for teas. Today I thought I would provide a few DIY tea recipes. You don’t have to grow your own herbs to make some of these. Simply dig …
Tea: Grow Your Own — This past weekend, I was at a science fiction convention to promote my book. While I was there, I found a booth in the dealer’s room that sold various tea blends. Since I grow herbs in my container garden, I’m …
Dark, Dreary, Rainy Spring Days? Time to Refurbish Flower Pots. — Here in Arkansas, the weather has been damp, dreary and cold for a week. It’s difficult to adjust to after several weeks of sunny, warm weather. I don’t want to go out and squelch my way through the in-ground vegetable …
How to Make your Own Garden Gazing Ball — Yesterday I posted an article on the history of the garden ball. Today, I would like to share with you how to make your own. To start this project, you’ll need a sphere. Any sphere will do. Two of the …
What To Do When Your Planter Floods — Over the past couple of days, my area has gotten several deluges at once. My largest planter — which drains quite well when we receive normal amounts of rain – was not prepared to cope with 4 inches of water …
How to Grow Moss On A Cement or Terracotta Flower Pot — Terracotta and stone containers look good in a container garden because they develop moss and a wonderful green patina as they age. But you don’t have to wait on Mother Nature to achieve that green patina. Instead you easily cultivate …
A Little Something Different: Making Bread in a Flower Pot — Part of the fun in gardening is working with your hands. This is also true in bread making. There is something very stress-releasing about kneading and pounding dough. Traditionally, bread is baked in a brick-lined oven. The clay of the …
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