The Seasoning Guide for Herb Growers So you decided to start an herb garden and it is going great guns. You know what you want to grow. You know how to harvest the herbs. You know how to dry the herbs. However, do you know how to cook with them? Many new gardeners really do not... ( added 351 days ago.)

How to Grow a Guava Tree When I lived in Florida I had a neighbor who had a small tree with beautiful maroon colored blossoms and lovely dark, shiny green oval leaves. When I asked him what it was he said it was a Guava tree and low and behold within 2 months guava fruit... ( added 353 days 3 hours ago.)

How to Grow Mangos When you want a great shade tree that bears delicious, vitamin packed fruit and will deliver leaves that make great mulch then consider planting some Mango trees. Mangos are the apple trees of the tropics! The mango tree is basically an... ( added 356 days 18 hours ago.)

How to Grow a Cherimoya Tree When I lived in Brisbane , Australia , one of the fruit crops of Queensland was the Cherimoya or often referred to as a Custard Apple. Since I happen to personally like hard apples, this fruit did not really appeal to me because it is creamy... ( added 356 days 18 hours ago.)

How to Grow Carambola or Star Fruit Trees This deciduous tree is a native of Ceylon and the Moluccas and it grown commercially in the warm areas of Florida and California . However it can be grown in the gardens of zones 8 to 11. If you live in zones 8 and 9 you may need to provide it... ( added 356 days 18 hours ago.)

How to Grow an Avocado Tree Avocados were not part of our daily diet in Brooklyn , N.Y. when I was a kid. However, when I grew up and started to travel I enjoyed eating these lovely fruits and occasionally had them in our daily diet so the kids could try to grow an avocado... ( added 356 days 18 hours ago.)

How to Grow Kiwi Fruit Our family enjoys kiwi fruit either in salads or just to eat all by itself so in 1994 we decided to plant some at our Bed & Breakfast in Tennessee . We had a cleared space and a long, wide raised planter with trellises built into it thus making it... ( added 356 days 18 hours ago.)

Did You Know Yucca is an Herb? Our late son, Fred, happened to like the look of the Yucca plant and especially when the plant blooms so he planted two of them at Home Farm and now that it has been 8 years since Fred unexpectedly passed away the Yucca plants are still here and... ( added 1 year 3 days ago.)

Plant Some Lambs Ear to Attract Hummingbirds I love the look of Lambs Ear and this hardy perennial does real well in hot dry summers which we seem to be getting more of here is zone 6 as evidenced by 2007 and 2008 seasons which are attributed to global warming. Besides having masses of... ( added 1 year 3 days ago.)

You Better Know Your Chestnuts When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn , N.Y. my parents looked forward to the late fall and early winter when the hot Chestnut peddler came around with his two wheeled push cart that had some way to keep the chestnuts hot. I think it was a... ( added 1 year 3 days ago.)

How to Keep the Good Bugs in Your Garden All of us who garden and who are eco-conscious try to figure out ways to eliminate the "bad" bugs in our gardens. Those slugs and bugs who not only eat up our flowers and veggies, but just give us the "creepy crawlers" when we see them! Gone are... ( added 1 year 9 days ago.)

Early Fall Tree Care The mornings are darker when I awake and the evening comes earlier as I notice the shortening of the days and start to think about fall gardening care and the last of the summer heat has allowed me to get out into the garden to do the much needed... ( added 1 year 10 days ago.)

Veggies That Can be Planted in the Fall Those of us who live in the warmer regions of our country have the advantage of creating fall vegetable gardens and that would include turnips, spinach, Chinese cabbage, chard, rutabagas, cauliflower, radishes, carrots, onions, cabbage, mustard... ( added 1 year 11 days ago.)

How to Choose the Correct Watercolor Paper Choosing the correct watercolor paper is half the battle when one starts a painting and it helps to know a little bit about paper because once you walk into an arts and crafts store or go to an on-line art supply store you will find so many makes... ( added 1 year 12 days ago.)

How to Paint a White Tiger Though I call this painting "The Snow Tiger" there really is no such thing as a snow tiger and I think some people get a white tiger mixed up with snow leopards. When I painted my first tiger painting I did a lot a research as was amazed to find... ( added 1 year 13 days ago.)

Lets Leave the Leaves Remember, as a kid, creating huge piles of leaves in the fall and running like crazy to jump into them only to flail all around in them with your friends and then doing the same thing all over again? Well, fall is here now and I rarely see... ( added 1 year 14 days ago.)

Painting a Siberian Tiger Most times, when I get up in the morning, I usually know what I want to paint or what kind of painting I want to start. Often it is about a place I have been or a flower I have grown or a still life of the fruits and vegetables that grow in my... ( added 1 year 15 days ago.)

Taking Care of the Gardener We gardeners have a lot to take care of whether it be vegetable gardens, orchards, flower gardens, herb beds, container gardens, patio gardens, landscaping, mowing the grass, maintaining our compost heaps or just getting ready for the different... ( added 1 year 16 days ago.)

The Humor of a Good Gardening Mystery I like to do a lot of things and at this stage of the game I rarely do anything I do not like to do. I have earned that right and privilege because for almost 74 years on this planet there have been many things I had to do that I did not... ( added 1 year 16 days ago.)

Astilbes an Easy Perennial to Grow I don't know about you, but I am always on the lookout for showy flowers that are easy to grow and preferably a perennial. Why? Simply because I am basically a lazy gardener! I like this plant because it is virtually pest free and it will brighten... ( added 1 year 19 days ago.)

Try Evergreens if You Live in the Shade When we lived in Tennessee and built our campgrounds and Bed and Breakfast we were doing it on 25 wooded acres on a mountain next to a state forest and that made for a lot of shade. I had cleared out a small spot for creating my spiritual Zen... ( added 1 year 19 days ago.)

We Have 104 Birdhouses in Our Garden! I do not remember how this birdhouse craze began, but once it did it became a fun project. Our driveway is about 2000 feet long and on one side of our property is about that much fence between our property and my brother's property. The drive is... ( added 1 year 21 days ago.)

How to Improve Your Garden Soil The only time I lived in a place where the soil did not have to be improved was on an old dairy farm in Northern New York . The top soil on our place went down thirty inches before it hit any thing else. Everything grew without any amendments. ... ( added 1 year 21 days ago.)

Plants That Love the Rain I learned a long time ago there was nothing I could do about the weather except dress for it. Why complain about it? I can't do anything about it. My late father-in-law's statement when it rained was, "I hope this rain keeps up!" and when someone... ( added 1 year 21 days ago.)

Election Day, Where We Replace the Devil We Have with the Devil in Waiting That is basically what it boils down to for me. I have voted in many elections and will do so this November also, but the choices seem to get worse and worse. We expect so much, we believe so much, we do not want to believe anything less than... ( added 1 year 25 days ago.)