Homemade plant food is ideally used for outdoor plants since smells and ease of application can vary. Adding plant food to potted plants can also be a little messy, so be extra careful when adding homemade plant food to your indoor plants. Keep in mind that some ingredients, like ammonia...
Umeboshi improves with age for a few years. I usually start eating them 3 years after making them, though you can eat them the same year. At around 5 years I think they are at their best. After about 10 years or so they start to disintegrate and become mushy if kept wet, and rather...
Out of their habitat,Japanese beetlescan be insidious garden pests; leave them unchecked and they will munch roses and precious flowers to lace by summer’s end. Commercial traps kill beetles, but there are also common things around the home that, when combined, become effective at killing beet...
If you receive a bouquet of roses for your birthday or other holiday, you can preserve them with Clorox bleach. The bleach works by killing bacteria that break down the flowers. The important thing is to stick to the designated amount of Clorox as too much will kill the flowers and too l...
Food Barriers The ants could be attracted to your pet’s supper dish, a potted plant or dish of candies. Either keep food sealed until needed or surround it with a liquid barrier so they can’t get to the food. Fill a baking pan with water and set the pet dish (or potted plant, ...
After a long winter, I love getting back outside to plant strawberries and kale and all my favorite flowers. But for all those times when I can’t physically be in my garden, I’ve got garden coloring sheets to give me a taste of sunshine even indoors. These gardening pictures to ...
Everything you need to know about elderflower Summer alfresco dining recipe: Simple trout salad Summer cake recipe: Classic strawberry shortcake Grilled prawns with blackberry citrus salad Summer alfresco dining recipe: Honey cake Rosé wine jelly exists and we want some for our next summer picnic ...
Whether you are growing vegetables, flowers, or even houseplants, plant grow lights do NOT have to cost a lot. Following is thecheapest grow light setup for seedlings–and what’s even better, all of thesuppliescan be had with a single trip to yourneighborhood hardware store. ...
Place them everywhere with a few cut flowers in them make pretty decorations and the wilted flowers remind me to toss before becoming stinky . At night I put a jar on my table soap water in bottom hang an old banana peel (witch I keep in fridge for this purpose) from top with a sc...
They also need a fairly sheltered position so that bees and insects can easily pollinate the flowers. Mix some homemade compost or other humus into the soil where the strawberries are to be planted. Make a hole and place the plant so that the crown (the part from which the stems are ...