Another year upon us. The garden is sitting dormant, waiting for the compost and tilling. We have had, in the past problems with wire worms so i have been researching. We do rotate our crops but...

Kniphofia uvaria, Red Hot Poker. I have been growing my first and am curious on how I would go about handling this plant for the new season. As it is now, the tall busy stems look somewhat wilted...

Here's my story... Ungreen Thumb As you may have read, I have grown quite plant crazy again in the past weeks. It's me reliving my teenage days when I had over a dozen rose plants with...

For those of you who have a different kind of housing to me, gutters are around the whole edge of our roofs. They are there to catch rain run off. So if you have a 4 bedroom house, you have a lot of...

This year, I've finally found a way to create a garden plan that's simple and quick. Instead of using the fancy programs with nice graphics I decided to use MS Word. In Word I created a table...

I know this may sound silly, but I wanted to see what people thought about it. My kids love our bird feeder in the backyard and love watching the birds every morning eating from the bird feeder. Only...

Mango Propagation - The Mango Seed This whole adventure started when I was delivering Alkaline Water in the neighborhood and I saw a Mango Plant in a Pot. All of a sudden, I am reminded of an old...

Of all the flowers I know the SUNFLOWER is the only one that faces the SUN from sun up to sun down. You only have to look at a Sunflower and you know where the sun is in the sky. At dusk it...

What are you planting this season? I'm looking for something with colour, so if there is anything you can suggest then feel free! But what colours are you going for this spring? What have you already...

Here I can start planning in March and start getting some plants going inside. We really can't start planting outside until later in April. I am trying to decide now what we are going to grow this...