A botanist friend of mine once told me that there’s no such thing as a weed. All weeds are plants, and all plants have a certain purpose. He says weeds are just “unwanted” plants or plants whose purpose hasn’t been ...
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Vegetable Gardening When You Are Short On Time
Gardeners often love to pore over seed catalogs, dreaming about which new varieties to try this year, planning their gardens in meticulous detail, and then put their planning into practice. Much time can be spent in tending and loving on ...
Read More »The Basics Of Beneficial Weeds
Weeds are often the bane of the organic gardener’s life. Even the most committed organic gardener can confess to being tempted to purchase a bottle of the chemical weed killer in order to get rid of the invasive creeping Charlie ...
Read More »5 Gardening Tasks To Complete Before Winter
While hobbyists are enjoying their pumpkin pies and other fruits of their summer gardening labors, the serious gardener is likely to be hopping about with the year-end tasks that need to be accomplished before the winter gloom sets in. When ...
Read More »Chemical Fertilizers And Roundup: The Stealthy Ingredients Killing You And Your Crops
The jury has been out for quite some time on chemical fertilizers and herbicides – are they good or bad? Roundup, which is the most popular weed killer in the U.S., is at the center of the debate. Researchers in ...
Read More »Mother Nature’s First Aid Kit: 10 Backyard Plants For First Aid And General Wellness
Living in modern times, most of us reach for a bottle or tube of purchased product to help us when we get hurt or when we want to improve our well-being. I would like to share with you ten options ...
Read More »Useful Weeds In The Garden
Weeding is one of the most tedious chores in the garden, especially if you are pulling them by hand, one at a time. It means spending hours kneeling or crouching, bent over your garden, and it leaves you with stiff, ...
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I beg to differ with historians. Pearl Harbor was not the first attack on the United States by the Japanese. No, they chose an innocuous Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876 to launch their insidious attack against our country. ...
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