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If You Can Grow Orchids, You Can Grow Your Own Vanilla

Jan 9th, 2013 | By
If You Can Grow Orchids, You Can Grow Your Own Vanilla

Growing vanilla has long seemed like an impossibility for many gardeners, but the truth of the matter is that if you can successfully grow orchids, then your odds of being able to grow your own vanilla plants are really good. The highly prized vanilla pods are actually the fruit produced by one of three vanilla orchids, which include the following: Vanilla tahitiensis Vanilla planifolia Vanilla pompon Vanilla orchids grow as vines, often climbing up other trees when growing wildly. They will also happily grow up bamboo poles or a trellis. Like all orchids, vanilla orchids
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The Health Benefits of Flavored Water

Mar 27th, 2012 | By
The Health Benefits of Flavored Water

Water doesn’t always taste good. It may be a bit brackish or have picked up a plastic or metal flavor from the container where it was stored. The water is still good, but your taste buds aren’t interested. Rather than pouring it out, how can you make your stored water more palatable? Flavoring your water is an easy answer, but you didn’t store good, clean water for weeks or months just to fill it with harmful chemicals or fake ingredients. Fortunately, quality, all-natural water flavorings are out there. Many of them also come with health
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How To Make Homemade Vanilla Extract

Mar 15th, 2012 | By
How To Make Homemade Vanilla Extract

Vanilla extract being so expensive, you would think that it would be difficult to make.  Not so. Making vanilla extract requires few ingredients – vanilla beans, alcohol and a glass jar – and a fair amount of time. The expense lies in that vanilla “beans” are the seedpods of an orchid. This orchid must be hand pollinated to obtain the beans that are the base of this extract we all use. Storage Bottles Choose dark glass bottles or jars with tight fitting lids to store your vanilla extract. Dark glass protects the extract from direct
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