Category archives: Gardening & Farming

Best Way to Design a Flower Garden

Looks like your home has a big garden in it and you want to make it a garden full of beautiful flowers and other plants. However, you do not know from where to begin. Well, this guide will tell how you can turn your plain garden into a one that… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Create a Container Garden

What was a rather dull backyard has been transformed into a fragrant, colourful and continually inviting place, where you can sit in privacy and seclusion. Although it is small, the site has the enormous advan­tages of being fairly sunny and sheltered, making it possible to grow many plants that might… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Control Pests and Diseases When Growing Herbs

Generally herbs seem to be more resistant to disease and insect attack than many garden plants. This may be because most garden herbs are little changed from their wild ancestors, while many other garden plants have been selected or hybridized. Herbs often have chemical components that provide protection.

Horseradish and… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Choose Herbs for Flower Arrangements

Many herbs are obvious candidates for flower arrangements. Fragrant roses growing in the garden beg to be cut and brought indoors. The sunny, round flowers of calendula come in varied shades of yellow and orange. Feverfew’s abundant, dainty white daisies make excellent filler flowers. The tousled mops of bee balm… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Build a Flower Arranger’s Garden

A vase arranged with freshly-cut flowers from the garden immediately brings vitality to indoors. Many annuals and biennials can be used to produce cut-flowers, while shrubs with colorful foliage and berries add permanency to floral displays.

Annuals as cut-flowers

These are either hardy annuals that can be sown in spring… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Build an Informal Rectangular Garden

The strong rectangular shape of the garden is reinforced by the choice of paving stones, bricks, steps and patterns, but the shape of the plot is then deliberately obscured by having lots of plants overflowing on to the lawn to hide the straight lines. Harsh angles are cleverly softened with… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Treat Different Kinds of Respiratory Tract Problems with Herbs

Colds, mild flu, and sinus congestion

While in the past sorrel and yellow dock were used to relieve congestion of the nasal passages arising from infection, today the most popular herbs for tackling colds and flu are echinacea and garlic. Echinacea has been approved by Commission E for both boosting… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Use Color in Your Garden

To illustrate how I feel about the relative importance of form and color, visualize a bed of flowers in perfect color harmony, ranging perhaps from a palest pink to a deep violet, and planted exclusively with tall border phlox. They will all be of the same shape, with heavy trusses… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Work with the Soil in Small Garden

In the thirty years since I’ve had my hillside garden there has been an enormous change in the way all of us, and not just gardeners, think about the planet we inhabit. As a result, there’s more sophistication to the efforts of even a rank beginner than there was when… Continue Reading…

Best Way to Weed Your Garden Easier

Don’t get caught up in all the horror talk about weeding. It’s not bad at all. I enjoy it (me—with my childhood garden experience!); it may even be habit-forming, in which case there’s a danger you’ll have the urge to weed and there’ll be no weeds left. Imagine that predicament!… Continue Reading…