Image by KingsbraeGarden via Flickr What is butterfly gardening? Simply put butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures to your garden. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. If there is a cat where you are planning to plant your butterfly garden, give it a second thought cats will kill the butterflys. The design your butterfly garden is a matter o... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia With the right information and advice you can have a lawan growing outside your home with little effort. To be able to grow a lawn successfully requires care and skill and you could do with a few tips and ideas. Different kinds of grass will perform differently in different kinds of climate. There are a number of factors to think about such as amount of sunshine, rainfall and shade that can be provided to the grass. To avoid all the hassles of maintaining the grass ... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia I have loved to cook for more than half my life. Then we bought a second lot with our property so we could have a garden. From there it only seemed right to start a great garden recipe site to go with our garden site. My recipe site is just a newbie blog and I have a lot to work out but there are some recipes up there. It will get better with time, just like some meals are better the next day, well ours will be better every day. We don’t grow meat in our gard... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia Almost every gardener is aware of the many benefits of composting, but too often are challenged to make compost quickly enough for their needs.  Here are some tips to getting your garden compost bin working faster. For most of us there is no such thing as too much compost. gardeners know that composting is great for a lot of reasons.  It improves the tilth of the soil, which improves drainage while allowing the soil to retain water better in hot weather.  It buffers... Read Full Story

Image by a440 via Flickr Having a low maintenance front yard is the goal of many people. You can get easy to manage front yard landscaping done by any of the professional landscapers in your area or you can do it yourself. Either way you can have front yard landscaping done that will take minimal work to keep looking fantastic all year round. If you are going to get a professional in to do your front yard landscaping though, be sure to tell him that this is your over all goal, that you... Read Full Story

Image by -Chad Johnson via Flickr Some of us have the desire to grow our own herbs but lack the knowledge of how to get started. There are a lot of questions that come along with starting an herb garden. For instance, which herbs do better if they were grown from seeds? What sort of soil is needed? If you bought a herb garden kit this would give you the opportunity to have all your questions answered. Click here for more: herbal garden kits Herb garden kits contain a large variety of h... Read Full Story

Image by KaiChanVong via Flickr If you have already planted your herbs, you will have watched them sprout and flourish. Hopefully you will now know how very useful they can be in lots of different ways. But, using herbs from a home herb garden requires a little bit or work first. The very first thing to do is to harvest them and getting the timing right is one of the most important things. The wind and the heat can disperse the essential oils of the herbs. You should harvest them on a ... Read Full Story

Image by antonychammond via Flickr When landscaping your yard you want to find things that will complement each other. Hedges along with flowers and trees can make for a dramatic enterance to your home. Planting hedges to ensure some privacy is an ideal way to incorporate them into your overall design. You can think of hedges as walls that grow and breathe. Evergreen include both broad leaf and standard needle types and deciduous shrubs include lilac, rose of Sharon, azaleas and forsyt... Read Full Story

Image by Peter Blanchard via Flickr Some people enjoy a nice and simple flower garden, while others like to fill their garden full of all the statues and trinkets they can find.  However, there is perhaps no more rewarding of a gardening experience than that of a vegetable garden.When you grow your own vegetables you and your family will surely taste the difference in flavor and you will be able to have the pride knowing you grew the vegetable yourself.  Also, you will have less worry ... Read Full Story

ergonomic garden tools As an activity gardening is one of the most popular and favored pastimes there is. People have been gardening for centuries and have been producing the most wonderful fresh vegetables, delicious fruits and beautiful flowers they could. They where using all types of garden tools and some are easy to use and others put more strain on the human body. There are hundreds of garden tools to choose from and because these tools will last for many years it is wise to think abou... Read Full Story