Gardening

All the Basics on How to Dry Your Own Herbs

August 14, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

How to dry herbs… Enjoy the full flavor of homegrown herbs all year long by drying your favorite varieties. With the right conditions and a little patience you can easily have an ample supply of herbs. Add them to your gourmet recipes, use them for natural fragrances and display the beautiful shapes as unique green [...]

Top 10 Tips for Growing Herbs Indoors and Out

August 6, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

Herbs are super plants and enhance your garden, menu and home with full flavors and aromas. They’re also generally simple to grow with some attention to their care and these herb-focused tips. 1. Space Can Be Flexible Herbs can be grown well in expansive gardens or tucked in your windowsill. Many gardeners enjoy doing both! [...]

3 Sustainable Gardening Practices

June 16, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

Introducing 3 sustainable gardening practises you may not have thought of… Gardeners all over the country have bought into composting.  Many use organic pest control and have a good relationship with their rain barrel.  But there are some small steps you can also take in your yard and garden to make it even more sustainable [...]

Organic Pest Control for a Thriving Garden

June 1, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

How can you echo nature in your backyard?  Follow the patterns, battle plans and timing of the planet for the healthiest garden patch possible. Organic gardening isn’t just about staying away from harmful chemicals.  It’s also about mimicking backyard ecology including things like composting and water conservation.  These tactics put naturally occurring events (like the [...]

Grass – The Wonder Weed

May 11, 2010 by The Lazy Gardeneress · Leave a Comment 

Grass is underrated… It is taken for granted, trodden on, sat on and generally abused. We expect perfection from lawns of grass, a flawless canvas of green. When it creeps in amongst our vegetables and flowers we curse it, tear it up by it’s roots and send it to the rubbish heap. But Grass is [...]

Beans Glorious Beans

May 4, 2010 by The Lazy Gardeneress · Leave a Comment 

It was a beautiful day today, far too nice to sit in front of a computer so I decided to go and plant a packet of beans that have been sitting in my office forever. Kidney beans I’m talking about, I made some delish berry iced tea, (try it, it’s good) went to the greenhouse [...]

How to Build a Compost Bin for Your Backyard

April 25, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

Want to reduce your garbage and save space in the landfill?  One of the best ways to do that is by composting.  With a little lumber, a hammer and some nails and a sense of DIY adventure, you can build a backyard compost bin that you’ll be thrilled to use. Composting works with four essential [...]

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bug

April 24, 2010 by The Lazy Gardeneress · Leave a Comment 

Long live the bug, the bee and the butterfly If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live. Apparently this is a quote by Einstein, although no one can verify the source. Despite the dodgy verity of the statement it does make us realize [...]

Reclaimed Materials Make One of a Kind Patios

April 22, 2010 by Diana · Leave a Comment 

Sometimes you just want to blend in or follow the crowd.  Other times you do it out of necessity.  When it comes to your backyard living space, don’t be afraid to stand out and express yourself. An easy, eco-friendly way to do that is by building your patio from a selection of reclaimed materials.  Each [...]

Spinach makes a great garden companion

April 18, 2010 by The Lazy Gardeneress · Leave a Comment 

I love nature, I don’t want to struggle with it, poison it, and curse the soil for being to rocky or dry, or to dense with clay. I want to work with it – take the path of least resistance – the one that leads to less toil. And so I garden without effort, oh [...]

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