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An Artists Different Point of View I rarely paint the same thing twice as my mind is too eclectic or weird as some members of my family labels. However, a bright, blue sky day brought me out into my gardens early today when it was chilly and eventually my old friendly, faded... ( added 42 days 4 hours ago.)

What Memorial Day Means to Me When I was a child growing up in Brooklyn , New York , Memorial Day wasn't called Memorial Day. It was called Decoration Day and the Veteran's organizations such as the VFW or Veterans of Foreign Wars stood on street corners taking donations... ( added 45 days 22 hours ago.)

Every Painting Has a Story I have finally been able to find two reliable 18 and 20 year old helpers who know how to give a good day's work for a good day's pay and at age 74 my gardens are back to looking like they should! It is rough getting old and cricketty, when... ( added 45 days 22 hours ago.)

Helping Your Garden Birds Through the Winter In many parts of our nation winter has all ready set in. In our part of the country in zone 6 I think it finally has arrived on the very calendar day marked for winter arrival. In our part of Kentucky I can never figure out whether we live in the... ( added 190 days 14 hours ago.)

A Brief History of Cedar Oil as I Remember It When I lived in Northern New York I lived in the St. Lawrence County region and I lived there for a long time, first as the wife of a dairy farmer and then a widow of one and eventually, after moving away for eight years (though I visited the area... ( added 190 days 15 hours ago.)

How to Grow Holly Tis the season to be jolly and it tis the season I seem to notice holly even though it is around me all year long. I think the reason I do not notice it is because it usually is part of many gardeners or home owners landscape that has so many... ( added 190 days 15 hours ago.)

Easy Potato and Broccoli Soup Winter has set in and we wake up to a cold, overcast, pewter gray sky. The Blue Jays dine with us this morning and it is noted that no matter how many are up in the pergola they only come down one at a time to eat. I put out the ginger chips that... ( added 190 days 15 hours ago.)

Arlenes Roasted Herb Potatoes When we had the Bed and Breakfast and Campgrounds in Tennessee I often found myself cooking dinner for as few as 3 guests, but as many as 25 guests. To make my life very simple my menu included two choices"Take it or Leave it!" It simply consisted... ( added 198 days 16 hours ago.)

Christmas Gifts from Your Garden Christmas the time for giving and many of us are finding that the Christmas of 2008 is going to be a tight one. Basically, though I like Christmas and all the things that go with it, I really do not like the commercialism that has developed... ( added 198 days 16 hours ago.)

A Garden May Help Fight the Recession For those of us less fortunate to have the fruits of our labors from a large vegetable garden this year we are now starting to feel the pinch of high prices in our local food markets. As a kid I remember Eleanor Roosevelt starting the Victory... ( added 198 days 16 hours ago.)

Birdhouses and Bird Baths Attract Birds to Your Garden We all know the benefits of birds in our gardens and how they eat the bad bugs, plus we also know that they eat some of our berries and I personally know that they help to clean out the plums in my plum trees that are now almost 2 stories high and... ( added 200 days ago.)

Arlenes Citrus and Avocado Salad Our oldest son, Don, is the President and CEO of Hale's Groves in Florida and that is not only something we are proud of, but it something that helps to keep us hale and hearty in our old age as Don has set up a gift fruit of the month program for... ( added 200 days 1 hour ago.)

Arlenes Quick and Easy Apple Tart Now that the fall harvest is over and the apples are picked and stored for the winter we can sit back and relax. The weather chills a little more each day, the holidays are coming up on us and life again becomes a little more hectic. Those of... ( added 200 days 1 hour ago.)

How to Make Herbes Salees For those of you who love French or Mediterranean cooking or for those of you who have an organic herb garden then making Herbes Salees may be something you all ready know about. Basically salted herbs were the mainstay of traditional Arcadian... ( added 201 days 15 hours ago.)

How to Grow Camellias I only had seen Camellias in the old black and white movie when I was a kid. You know the one I mean with the dying Greta Garbo and the handsome Robert Taylor. It was her favorite flower. So in 1987 I was surprised to see that Camellias came... ( added 206 days ago.)

How to Plant a Halloween Herb Garden Though Halloween is past as is Thanksgiving and Christmas is looming large on the horizon I got to think about herb gardens I have seen in my travels. Right now it is too cold in my area of Zone 6 to deal with any garden, no less an herb garden. ... ( added 206 days ago.)

How to Make a Good Spinach Soup For those organic gardeners who are able to get a good crop of spinach before the heat sets in or for those of you who can get an early fall crop of spinach set and harvested before the first frost then perhaps you might have a good spinach soup... ( added 214 days 14 hours ago.)

Throw Out Those Old Herbs and Spices Oh my goodness! What a terrible thing to say and what a terrible thing to write an article about especially by one of the most frugal person on this planet! But it is true and necessary if you want your food to be flavored at its best. You... ( added 214 days 14 hours ago.)

How to Prepare Your Pumpkin There are those who really love the flavor of fresh-baked pumpkins and do not mind taking the time to clean and bake them. They also know that the typical pumpkin sold for use as a Jack-o-Lantern is not the pumpkin to use since these are usually... ( added 217 days 3 hours ago.)

How to Make Spiced Pumpkin Seeds In a couple of my previous articles we learned the benefits of growing and/or eating pumpkins and we learned how to prepare pumpkin for making puree. For those of us who grow our own herbs or who just cook with herbs it is important to know... ( added 217 days 3 hours ago.)

The Many Benefits of Pumpkins Now that Thanksgiving is over with and Christmas is looming on the horizon we start to think about our Christmas baking. Not only for our big family meals, but for those wonderful little cookies and tea breads we distribute to our friends and... ( added 217 days 3 hours ago.)

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 223 days 21 hours 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 226 days 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 229 days 15 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 229 days 15 hours ago.)