So, how are your gardening plans going? If you want to grow outdoors but whimper at the prospect of all the bending and kneeling with a traditional or even a container garden, why not consider a keyhole garden? A keyhole garden is a raised circular garden with a...
It is so important that we feed our plants vibrant, nutritious, and natural fertilizers to help them on theirtime way. Fertilizers are so easy to create and apply to plants. My basic ratio for these fertilizers is 1:4 and they can be applied every two weeks. Banana...
In this COVID-19 crisis, perhaps it’s occurred to you that 1) you’re really glad you started gardening or 2) you’re really wishing you had a home garden. If neither thought has occurred to you, I’ll see if I can do a little prompting here by...
Winter’s on its way and the daylight hours are fading fast. Kinda SAD, isn’t it? What’s really sad is that SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder – is more than a punny joke for nearly 10 million people. It can run the range of feeling a mild...
When it turned so cold last week, I thought a bowl of soup would be ideal. Unfortunately, I never actually got in the kitchen long enough to do more than heat water for tea. A week later and it’s cold again and, after a 3am inventory of the freezers and kitchen, I had...
Temperatures continue to yo-yo but officially, it’s Spring. As noted in my winter skin care article, despite the snow and rain, the amount of moisture in the air is reduced by the frigid temperatures. Add to that heated indoor space, our skin needs help holding...
