Garden
Read our helpful garden tips to help make your gardening experience the best it can be! We share all our little secrets here, after all gardening is beneficial for everyone and everything.
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List of 17 Flowers for Hummingbirds
Hummingbirds enjoy a variety of flowers, but especially bright nectar-filled and tubular flowers. Plant these flowers around your garden for more of a chance to see these beauties fly through. You will also find most of these in our very own garden! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy for more details. 1.Geraniums Geraniums are a very popular flower that everyone seems to gravitate towards. They offer flowers all summer long and give bursts of color to your garden! You can even bring…
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Uses for Mint Tea
Mint tea is one of my personal favorites. The smell, the taste, I just can’t get enough of it! But the mint plant also has many medicinal uses! Mint tea is all natural Did you know that mint is a natural anti-inflammatory and is full of antioxidants and has antimicrobial properties?! Its also a natural relaxant and a natural decongestant! What doesn’t this plant have?! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy for more details. For the Body Its great for your skin…
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How to Grow String Beans
String beans are probably one of the easier crops to start with. They are resilient and yet produce lots for harvest. Ours generally give 2-3 harvest pickings and yields tremendous amounts! Be prepared for what you grow, make room in your freezers! In our garden we usually plant a green bean (bush bean) and a yellow bean (golden rod). Makes for great additional color to your crop. There are many varieties of string beans that you can choose from such as pole bean, gold rush, rattlesnake green bean, and scarlet runner, etc. DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a…
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How to attract Hummingbirds to your Garden
Hummingbirds are my moms absolute FAVORITE! She has hummingbird figurines all over the house and when it comes to planting flowers outside, Id say she caters to the hummingbird the most! And I don’t blame her, they are a GORGEOUS specimen! So she knows a thing or two about How to attract hummingbirds to the garden! We always have a few that come by each year! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy for more details. Plant Flowers to Attract Hummingbirds Of course…
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How to Grow Black Eyed Susan Vine
The Black Eyed Susan vine has got to be my favorite vine that we have grown in our garden thus far! Not only is it an absolutely gorgeous perennial! It is a great space filler, and offers many variations in color! We planted yellow vines this year but after growing a few weeks, they seemed to have changed their color to this gorgeous orange/red. But I have seen bright yellows, bright oranges and a pale creamy yellow. DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure…
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How to Grow Cucumbers on a Trellis
Welcome to the world of CUCUMBERS! Or at least my world of cucumbers! Let me teach you my ways of the cucumber plant. And I specify MY WAY cause I do what works for us in our garden. Others may have their own ways, however we grow our cucumbers on a trellis! TREMENDOUS space saver! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy for more details. Location In my experience, cucumbers love, love, LOVE sunny spots and proper drainage! Be sure to pick a…
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3 Tips to Start Your Spring Clean up
So the winter weather is coming to an end and you are starting to get your first few tastes of the spring air ahead. HALLEJUAH! I have been waiting for spring for what feels like FOREVER! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy for more details. It is my favorite season along with summer. It’s when all the plants start to come back to life and bloom! And life is everywhere again. You got your trees starting to bud and your spring flowers…
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How to Start Composting
What is something every great garden should have?! A COMPOST PILE!! Why is that you may be asking yourself? Because the process of composting makes nutrient-rich soil that is essentially food for your veggies. It makes your garden happy and healthy! And is always a great way to recycle! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy for more details. Don’t forget to do your part in saving the earth!! Composting is EASY! And yes you can do it too! You are gonna OWN…
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Getting Your Garden Ready for Fall
So its the beginning of September, we are just a few short weeks away from Fall! Now is the time to start prepping everything for those winter months! I’m talking about planting your spring bulbs, so they bloom come spring. Talking about harvesting the last bits of your garden and planting your fall/winter vegetables. I’m talking about cleaning up the garden and the everlasting fall leaves that never seem to be finished falling from the trees. DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something at no extra cost to you. Please check out our Disclosure Policy…
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How to Save your Seeds
Getting Started If you are new to the whole gardening thing, especially when it comes to seed saving, it is easier if you start with the basics. Dont go worrying about all the hybrids and such that life has to offer now. There is a lot more to flowers than taking the seeds and expecting that same plant to grow from them. Today, there are many varieties of color and shapes of the same flower done by cross polination. Which for the creativity of a gardener is amazing! We all LOVE to be creative now, don’t we?! DISCLOSURE: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may receive a…
