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91How do I start an avocado tree from the pit? Mine NEVER grow!
Guacamole is a very tasty dish but you cannot make it without avocados; but you can grow your own avocados starting right in your kitchen or any room with a spot for a glass of water and some sunlight. Just think fresh avocados...
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84Growing Vegetables Indoors
It is snowing outside and you are craving a few cherry tomatoes to garnish the fresh green salad that you just made. You want it fresh not from the store where the tomatoes and green may have traveled hundreds and thousands of miles before they are...
80 comments81How to Choose the Best Lights for your Indoor Vegetable Garden
The factors to consider when planning to grow vegetables indoors are temperature, humidity, light level, air circulation, and nutrition. The most important element of success in indoor vegetable growing is light. Light determines how long...
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78Garden Tales: Rose of Sharon
I enjoy stories about plants almost as much as I enjoy the plants themselves. When I seek out gardening books, at the public library, in book stores, at book sales and on the Internet I am always looking for more than simple technical information,...
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75Small Space Gardens- The Balcony
My Terra Edibles seed catalogue arrived in the mail yesterday. Terra Edibles is a Canadian company that sells heritage seeds. Their tomato seeds are what I buy when I plan to start tomatoes from seed. The varieties available are impressive. This...
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79Growing and Using Mint
We recently moved to a new house. I was wandering around the backyard the other day, just looking and taking a little inventory, when I realized that right under the huge, old maple that sits almost dead centre of the yard there was growing and I do...
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76What kind of trees are the best to have around your house?
I am a big fan of trees, not only for the many benefits they provide us with, but just for themselves. I can sit and watch a tree and unwind as my mind clears. If you are looking to purchase a tree or trees for your property then you need to...
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70How to Combat Cabbage Moths
You spent time planning and laying out the garden bed; making sure all the plants had the space they needed; where getting enough sunlight and got water what necessary. You are anticipating the harvest, fresh cabbage, broccoli, Brussel sprouts,...
16 comments84How to Make Penicillin and Other Homemade Experiments
Let food be your medicine and medicine your food is a saying that we would do well to give some deep thought. Hippocrates was certainly onto something. A saying that I use is “Let Nature Be Your Guide”. Whether it was due to intentionally...
21 comments82Harvesting and Eating Stinging Nettle
Urtica dioica is best known by its common name stinging nettle, a name that is well deserved. Stinging nettle is so called because of the burning pain that you can get when you brush up against it. Stinging nettle loves abandoned properties...
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