Herb Life:Incorporating herbs can go beyond just flavoring your food. Herbs such as lavender, rosemary, and thyme offer a rich texture and an inviting scent to your backyard. They are not just thriving in Mediterranean climates but provide an element of green and add to the overall enjoyment ...
I am not personally a fan of the bitter and earthy flavor of the raw plant, though I admit, I haven’t tried all variations of cooking or flavoring the parts of a dandelion. If you have a recipe you love and swear by, feel free to share it with me, and I will give it a try ...
In England, Plantlife is leading the charge to encourage localities to allow roadside verges to go unmown duirng the growing season. Let’s do the same in our own localities. It saves the government money and increases the amount of public space providing wildlife habitat. How cool is this...
Let’s get this out of the way before I continue. I am not an ‘apiarist’ aka: bee expert. I became fascinated with bees after reading Sue Monk Kidd’s ‘The Secret Life of Bees’ almost 20 years ago. That book inspired me to learn more about beekeeping, but my career in the te...
While Zaluzianskya may sound like a Polish polka, it does have a connection to Poland as the genus was named in honor of the a Polish botanist Adam Zaluziansky von Zalusian in the late 1500s, so I suppose the name potentially could have been even more of a tongue twister. Even though...
8. Low cost: low transportation and installation costs, low material costs, and the total project cost is 30% lower than that of cast iron pipes. Product Parameters Color Black,White, or Customized Size 20-1600 mm Usage Water Supply Discount supply Serviceable Lif...
Mostly iron and aluminum, limited lifespan compared to steel. Low Maintenance Anti-corrosion, easy to clean, no rust, water wash is sufficient. Prone to rust, large contact area with air, difficult to clean. One Set Include Standard...
The end of Christmas doesn’t have to be the end of life for your Christmas tree! Fresh-cut trees are useful in the garden in a number of ways.You can use the pine needles for mulch. Pine needles are full of nutrients that enhance the pH of your soil and can prevent soil compaction...
It helps break up heavy clay soils, absorbs water in sandy soils, and encourages microbial life, thereby decreasing that chances of any one disease becoming rampant in the garden. Compost piles don’t require anything fancy. The walls can be made of recycled 2 x 4s, chicken wire, or even...
They crawled up from seeds cast casually by wind or birds on hard clay, soil scraped barren of life by bulldozers fifty years ago. They scrabbled. They elbowed. Spring, dogwood and azaleas planted to hide their knobby knees Unseen, unhurried, and unhindered, roots spread out, tusseled, ...