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Would You Like To Grow Your Own Mushrooms Without A Kit?
How To Grow Your Own Mushrooms From Home Mushrooms grow in a very different environment from plants and gardens, requiring a complete, or almost complete absence of light, an absence of light that would quickly kill most plants. If you are a gardener in the sense of a...
Learn How to Make Miniature Fairy Gardens
Let your imagination soar by learning how to make miniature fairy gardens! This is a really fun and unique gardening project that is perfect for everyone. They are SO easy to put together, allow you to be as inventive as you want, and will become an engaging family...
13 Tips on How to Keep Deer Out of the Garden Naturally
Powerful Outdoor Water Jet Blaster Animal Pest Repeller – Motion ActivatedWe moved to a rural area of Northern Florida (South of Tallahassee) about eight months ago. My backyard (which has no fence) borders 90 acres of untouched forest. It is gorgeous! We had a bear...
13 Easy & Fun Gardening Crafts Kids Can Make
There are those certain times of year (April and October for me) that we all want to be outdoors! This is when parents will feel the need take their children outside and enjoy some fun gardening crafts kids can make! From experience(empty nester of three kids), I know...
11 Inexpensive Garden Themed Wedding Favors That Your Guests Will Love
Don't you love planning weddings swear everyone I know is getting married!)? Regardless of the season, garden weddings are THE best! I thought it might be fun to find inexpensive garden themed wedding favors for those of us who love the earth and want to incorporate...
Secrets To Fixing Vegetable Plant Leaves Turning Yellow
Are your vegetable plant leaves turning yellow? My itty bitty pot of strawberry leaves turns yellow all the time. Same with my bell peppers. Your garden plants turning yellow is definitely indicative of a problem. That problem is one of a few things: nutrient...
Finding The Best Way to Plant Vegetable Seeds – Advice on Seed Starters
A Review and Comparison from a New Gardener *4 month update below on how the two methods worked - from a long term perspective Since it is the season for indoor seed germination, AND because I am a very enthusiastic albeit somewhat new gardener I have been dying to...
21 Quick Tips on How To Get Birds In Your Yard
Ah Spring! We love watching the new life that emerges after all those months of cold. The snow is melting away. We can see little green shoots coming out of the trees. And the birds! The birds are singing their song and welcoming in new life! Would you like to see...
The 14 Best Plants, Trees & Shrubs for Attracting Birds
10/2017 Update: This article was originally written when we were living in Key Largo. We are now living in a very rural area South of Tallahassee. The birds I see on a regular basis have definitely changed. We have run into a new problem too. Bears! They...
What Kind of Flowers Do Butterflies Like? And How To Design A Butterfly Garden.
We all love to see butterflies hanging out in our yards, don't we? The question is, of course, what kind of flowers do butterflies like? This is a really good one to ask actually as the butterflies are attracted to varying flowers based on both their species and the...
The 7 Best Tips On How To Grow Cantaloupe in Containers
In this ongoing series, we are going to cover how to grow cantaloupe in containers. Who doesn't love the idea of going right outside one's door to pick the fruit you are going to eat for the very next meal?!? How To Start Melon Seeds First, a little piece of trivia....
11 Gardening Gifts For Men That Will Make Them Think Of You Every Time They Use It
From the gardener who is a weekend warrior to the die-hard in the dirt every day gardening is his obsession kinda guy, these gardening gifts for men will have him singing your praises in thanks for how well you "got" him! Finding men's gardening gifts can take some...
Hello. Hello. I am soooo happy you are here. Do you want to grow your own food too? You know it’s a beautiful thing to walk 20 steps out your back door and pick fresh lettuce, bell peppers and oregano for the salad you’re about to make. I do that almost every day and it’s an amazing feeling! Learn more about me here.