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10 Spices You’ll Be Amazed You Can Grow at Home
Herbs and spices add flavor to our food. Besides increasing the palatability of otherwise bland foods, they work as digestive aids, the volatile oils in them having a therapeutic action on the...
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20 Beautiful Flowers To Attract Bees To Your Garden
Bees, not just the honeybees, but bumblebees, soldier bees, carpenter bees, mason bees, sweat bees and several thousand other types, are essential to sustain our lives. One-third of the plants that...
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Eat Your Purples – 5 Purple Veggies To Grow In Your Garden
Of all of the fond memories from your childhood, the stern voice of your mother or father admonishing you to “Eat your greens,” because “they’re good for you,” probably isn’t among them. Of course,...
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11 Organic Secrets To Grow The Biggest Most Beautiful Roses
If you’re an organic gardener then you’ll know that trying to grow healthy roses can be a tricky affair! Roses, although beautiful, are a notoriously sensitive flower which can succumb to all manner...
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21 Weird Garden Remedies That Might Make You Look Crazy But That Actually Work
Organic gardeners will often go to any length to keep their plants happy and safe, but without the use of harmful chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Here are some old tricks and a few new ones...
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12 Subtle & Unexpected Benefits of Tending a Garden
There are a great many reasons to get to work in the garden, and, for the most part, these are fairly straightforward and obvious: gardening can be a source of fresh food, it greens up your outdoor...
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8 Natural Ways To Keep Slugs Out Of Your Garden
Slugs can be one of the most annoying garden pests. If left uncontrolled, they can completely annihilate a healthy garden. If you notice lots of small holes in the leaves of your plants, you likely...
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9 Secrets To Get More Fruit From Your Garden
While many garden plants bear fruit during their first growing season, some bushes and trees may take several years to produce a good yield. Growing and caring for these plants is a lot of work and...
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12 Reasons You Need To Companion Plant In Your Garden
Companion planting is the most natural way to grow healthy, sustainable gardens. Before the monoculture of vegetables and fruit trees took hold, farmers used to grow different crops together. Although...
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28 Companion Planting Combinations To Grow The Tastiest, Most Bountiful Food...
As we learnt in our previous article (12 Reasons You Should Start Companion Planting), companion planting is one of the best things you can do in your garden. Some plant companions can help to improve...
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15 Benefits Of Container Gardening & How To Get Started
Container gardening is an attractive alternative to gardening in the ground for many reasons. Some people are drawn to gardening for the very activity of pottering around among plants. Others,...
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20 Magical Ways To Make Your Garden A Wildlife Paradise
To be truly alive, a garden needs wildlife! Setting up a mini eco-system – by attracting a variety of small mammals, birds, reptiles and bugs – is key to enjoying true harmony and natural balance. In...
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20 Most Fragrant Herbs & Flowers For An Aromatic Garden
A well-planned garden should awaken all of the senses: the sight of colorful flowers; the contrasting touch of luscious shrubbery; the chirp and buzz of creatures hard at work; the flavor of freshly...
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15 Advanced Seed Starting Secrets You Won’t Learn At The Garden Center
“You reap what you sow,” may be a proverb with profound meaning, but it is literally true where gardening is concerned. Half the success of seed starting comes from the quality of seeds, and the other...
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25 Plants & Herbs You Can Propagate from Cuttings
Image Credit: Alex Bayley @ Flickr Growing new plants from cuttings is a great way to increase your stock in a relatively short time. Rooted cuttings are often sturdier than seedlings, and come to...
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8 Things To Do With Grass Clippings You Probably Never Thought Of
Those with lawns big and small will know how much of a chore cutting the grass can be. But even worse – what do you do with all the grass clippings once you’ve finished mowing? The Environmental...
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17 Organic Secrets to Turbocharge Your Garden Harvest
All gardeners want to get the best out of their time and effort by maximizing food production. If space is the limiting factor in some gardens, inclement weather and short growing seasons could be the...
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Incompatible Plants: 20 Plants & What They Can’t Grow With
Companion planting has gained great momentum amongst novice and experienced gardeners alike; especially with those who aim to grow maximum food in minimum space. Some plants like marigolds and a few...
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14 Convincing Reasons Every Gardener Should Grow Calendula
Calendula, commonly called pot marigold, has been popular with gardeners all over the world for such a very long time that its origins are lost in antiquity. Some consider it a European native while...
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7 Garden Tools That Are Overrated & 7 That You Desperately Need
Any self-respecting gardener should have the tools of the trade, and the very best ones at that. Nothing much can be accomplished without proper tools, but the truth is that some of the modern tools...
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