Tips on how to create a wildflower cottage garden from seed, with perennials, or by cultivating wild plants. A planting style that's as beautiful and eco-friendly as it is low-maintenance Ornamental gardens come in all shapes, sizes, and styles, but one of the classic styles is a cottage garden. Overflowing with foliage and color, they’re a maximalist way to grow a garden with flowers blooming from every nook and cranny. It’s a romantic style and one that’s so bursting with plants that it ... Read More about How to Create a Wildflower Cottage Garden
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How to Create an English Cottage Garden
Tips for how to create an English cottage garden, including classic plants and flowers, planting methods, and money-saving advice. Any growing space, large or small, can be transformed into the cottage garden of your dreams. Imagine you're reading a fairy tale, and the heroine of the story happens upon a cottage in the forest surrounded by a beautiful garden. It's abundant in color, flowers, natural textures, and casual elegance. She pushes through a gate, sees bees and butterflies hover above ... Read More about How to Create an English Cottage Garden
How to Propagate Rosemary from Stem Cuttings
Step-by-step instructions for how to propagate rosemary from stem cuttings. Includes when and how to take cuttings, encouraging root growth, and aftercare. Use these tips to create dozens of new rosemary plants for free. If you have an established rosemary plant, you can use it to propagate dozens of new plants for practically nothing. Propagating is taking a piece of a parent plant, and encouraging it to grow its own roots and become a separate plant. The new plant will essentially be a clone ... Read More about How to Propagate Rosemary from Stem Cuttings
Fall Gardening Checklist (printable garden tasks to prepare for winter)
A printable Fall Gardening Checklist including autumn gardening tasks for plant care, soil care, garden tools, wildlife gardening, and lawn While a lot of people think that the garden winds down after the last day of summer, that couldn’t be further from the truth. The tasks change, the temperature drops, but there are more things to do than ever in your herb or vegetable garden. Harvesting the last of the summer veg, sowing some of the last seeds of the year, and preparing the garden and your ... Read More about Fall Gardening Checklist (printable garden tasks to prepare for winter)
The Easiest Way to Test Soil pH and Amend it
Soil that's too acidic or too alkaline can create a challenging environment for crops to grow. Here's the easiest way to test soil pH and amend it organically. One of the last things you might think about in your edible garden is testing soil pH. Generally measured on a scale from 3 to 10, soil pH, or 'Potential of Hydrogen', tells you how acidic or alkaline it is. The reason that you should keep an eye on it, is that if the soil's pH is unbalanced, then there's a strong chance that your plants ... Read More about The Easiest Way to Test Soil pH and Amend it
