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During early spring, the urge to get out in the garden and start planting almost becomes overwhelming. Stores are stocking up on gardening tools, and seeds are luring me in with the promise of a bountiful harvest. I take full ...

Spring is perhaps the best time of the year to experiment with super-efficient heating and cooling systems, since the temperature can flip from chilly one day to warm the next. However, another reason why spring may be a good time ...

  It’s here! It’s spring! It’s time to start breaking out the seeds! If you’re like me, you probably spent at least some time this winter browsing through seed catalogs, creating wish lists, and making scale drawings of your garden ...

  If spring and early summer somehow slipped past without you getting all the vegetables planted that you wanted to, you are not alone. Life happens on its own schedule, and when one of the kids takes sick or the ...

Every year, at the beginning of spring, I find myself searching through my essential oil stash for citronella essential oil. It has so many natural and practical uses during the warm seasons that I could not imagine going without it. ...

  Warm weather has arrived, and along with the sunny weather often comes a to-do list of projects. If you have been looking for a project to work on this year, why not build a pond? We will get to ...

  For most people, spring is a welcome sign. Days get longer, the temperature starts to rise, and the trees bloom. But sometimes the spring bloom brings unwanted pests into our living areas. One such pest is the ant. Made ...

  A lot has been written about cattails, although the focus often tends to be on warm weather months. But I’ve harvested and eaten this remarkable plant throughout the year. Still, don’t be tempted to yank out a young cattail ...

  We live in a day and age where instant gratification is the norm. Therefore, when it comes to gardening, sometimes we want and expect the same.  Unfortunately, as a general rule, you can’t speed up the natural world.  Plants ...

The days are getting longer, snow is disappearing from the garden and the air is rapidly getting warmer. You’ve spent your dreary, winter days planning this year’s garden. Are you feeling the gardening “itch” yet? If you haven’t chosen which ...