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How to Preserve Your Pumpkins | 3 Simple Steps
It's pumpkin season! September is a month for getting back into a routine, pulling out the sweaters, and setting out the pumpkins. While there continue to be more and more faux pumpkin options that look pretty realistic, to me, not much beats beautiful fresh pumpkins...
3 Ways Gardening Can Reduce Stress
Gardening involves observing plant life and sun exposure, which both decrease high blood pressure. This makes gardening an effective way to counteract the body’s stress response. Gardening is a scientifically-proven way of significantly reducing the stress levels in our bodies. Even if our circumstances are beyond our control, we can choose activities like gardening that encourage our body’s recovery response.
Understanding USDA Climate Zones: Your Complete Guide
Once you become familiar with your regional weather patterns, climate zones and frost dates take a backseat to observable seasonal temperature changes.
The primary reason a seasoned gardener will use climate zones is to see what new plants they can plant in their landscape, orchard, or veggie garden.
And remember- if in doubt, plant it anyway!
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Mother’s Day Gift Ideas Under $40
If you can wrap your mind around the fact that we are nearly to the middle of April, then you likely have started to think about what you might want to get your mom, mother-in-law, sister, friend who is a mom (didn't' realize the list was thing long did ya?) for...
Beginner Gardening Series: April Edition
This is the year, the year you are going to start a garden! Have you told yourself this before and have had the summer go by, still without a garden? Not this year! Join us as we do a series dedicated to you; the beginning gardener. Each month we will talk about...
Spring Cleaning Your Garden
There is just something about Spring that makes us all want to freshen things up. We go to such lengths as taking the screens off our windows, buying new throw pillows. (just me??) and for some reason, our preferred cleaning instrument of choice is a Q-Tip,...
3 Ways You’re Killing Your Indoor Plants
Indoor plants can bring so much life into each room of your home. They are an extension of your personal style. There is a reason I have tropical plants all over my home; the beach is my happy place and indoor plants make it so easy to incorporate that style into my...
5 Easiest Tropical Plants to Grow Indoors
Can I successfully grow tropical plants indoors--even in the winter? Yes you can, with some TLC. The winter months can go on and on. I don't know about you, but about this time every year I am desperate to get grow something and get my hands in the dirt! And there...