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Drying herbs

You can dry herbs throughout the growing season as time allows. For best results, harvest them on a sunny day during a dry spell, and wait until the morning dew has evaporated before harvesting. If evening is the best time for you, harvest before the dew forms again. Harvest the herbs with scissors and shake [...]

Grow strawberries on a garden-plot

Planning to grow strawberries on your garden? Start from choosing soil. Basically you can choose any soil. But the dependence between the type of soil and productivity, sure, exists. So the best result is unchanging achieved for spodosol soils and for darkly-grey forest soils having light or medium composition. It is Important, that a depth [...]

Alternative Natural Herb Cure

Since the beginning of time, herbalists and physicians have turned to herbs for their almost magical soothing and healing properties. For centuries, herb cure were the only medicines available. But the power of herbs is more than the stuff of superstition and old wives’ tales. Many of today’s prescription drugs are still made from common [...]

Organic garden fertilizer – feed your garden with cover crops

Fifth generation farmer John Berden, Michigan, uses cover crops for fertilizer in his farm fields and his family vegetable garden. John produces dry beans, soybeans, wheat, oats, and organically certified cover crop seeds on his 500-acre farm without using any commercial fertilizer supplements. In his home garden, John also depends on cover crops to build [...]

How to store and harvest your herbs

Herbs may be the most versatile plants on earth. Of course, they’re unsurpassed for spicing up virtually any dish, but herbs offer much more than seasoning. The seeds, leaves, and even roots of culinary herb plants are power-packed ingredients outside the kitchen, too. Hard-working herbs can be used as natural cleansers and disinfectants. Some herbs [...]

Garden design ideas – pictures

How to build a raised garden bed

Improve your soil with NO digging, using this nifty raised bed recipe from landscape designer Pat Lanza of Wurtsboro, New York. You just layer the ingredients for these “Lasagna” beds right on top of the existing sod or soil. Pat says that her recipe will explain how to build raised garden bed “in half the [...]

Italian Herbs in Your Garden

Having an Italian herb garden could be quite an advantageous experience due to the fact that Italy is a homeland of the most well-known and delicious herbs that are used worldwide. The most tasty plates have Italian origin, and, without any doubts, herbs have their rightful place in the Italian cookery. One of the most [...]

Harvesting and storing herbs from your garden

In order to enjoy fully the outcome of gardening and growing herbs in particular, it is worth to put a certain effort into this process. As well as into process of harvesting herbs and storing them right way. First, it is crucial to choose the suitable time to harvest herbs. Inappropriate weather, such as too [...]