Plants, like people and animals, can develop a number of diseases. Whether you see it in your houseplants or out in the garden, diseases can destroy your greenery quickly if not treated, prevented, or destroyed. It’s probably not the end ...
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Enjoying Your Fragrance Garden with Potpourri
As much as we love our gardens for the edible bounty they provide, it’s also important to appreciate their aesthetic value as well. The beautiful fragrances that grace our gardens can be brought into our homes in many ways, but ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »Off The Grid Garden Checklist for 2012
While your garden is sleeping, it is preparing the foundation upon which your plants will be grown. However, there are still a few things you will need to do to help your garden along. Here is a list of chores ...
Read More »The Natural Healing Herb of Chicory
Chicory is a somewhat woody, perennial herb. Some varieties can be cultivated as salad greens or grown for their roots – which may be baked and ground as a coffee substitute or additive. In fact, during the Civil War, chicory ...
Read More »“Fast” Food From Scratch
We’ve all heard that we are what we eat, and we live in a society that doesn’t eat very well. Americans eat away from home about a third of the time, and at home many rely on pre-cooked meals. Even ...
Read More »Making Brooms the Old-Fashioned Way
A cottage in the woods or a farmhouse kitchen wouldn’t really be complete without a broom in the closet to clear away dust, with another near the hearth for sweeping up ashes from the previous night’s blazing fire. And imagine ...
Read More »8 Advantages To Container Gardening
Container gardening dates back thousands of years to ancient cultures from places like Egypt, Rome, and the Orient. Despite lack of archaeological evidence to support their exact whereabouts, Greek and Roman writers like Strabo and Rufus documented other details about ...
Read More »How To Make Your Own Soap
People have been making and using soap for nearly 5,000 years, and possibly much longer than that. At around 3,000 B.C. enterprising Babylonians, Mesopotamians, and Egyptians began making simple soaps to use for sanitizing cooking implements. These days, we rely ...
Read More »How To Protect Your Garden From Predators
Your garden is very important to your off-the-grid lifestyle. To end your reliance on grocery stores and supermarkets, you probably started a garden. You can grow a myriad of different vegetables and even fruit, no matter what your local climate. ...
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