Anyone can have a container garden. It doesn’t matter if you’re in an apartment, if you don’t have a backyard or not. Containers accent any space – your kitchen, the porch, the window sill or your Florida room. Here are some books specializing on different aspects of container gardening. Bountiful Container: How to Create Container ...
Squirrels can be a huge problem for gardeners. They dig up the bulbs, chomp off the flowers, and climb into the fruit trees to take one bite out of every single piece of fruit. For those of us with strawberry beds, squirrels can wipe out an entire crop of berries within 15 minutes. While some ...
Spring will be here soon and that means also means that gardening time is almost here. Many people who are still concerned about the economy outlook are cutting costs to save money. Growing some of your own food can definitely help cut costs, the food tastes better, and there is personal satisfaction in having a ...
The flower most frequently associated with the month of February is the violet (Viola odorata). The violet represents faithfulness, chastity, and humility. The ancient Greeks believed that the god Zeus gave the goddess Io pastures of violets to eat after turning her into a cow to protect her from a jealous Hera. In addition, the ...
As new home owners of one year, my husband and I are incessantly working on the design for our garden with no such luck. Sure, we have some blueprints and basic garden feng shui ideas however our latest mind-boggler was due to shrubs. Although it is nice to have an option among a few choices, ...
