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How to know when to harvest potatoes: it's based on whether they're an early potato or main crop and what happens to their foliage and flowers #lovelygreens #growyourown #gardeningtips

How to Know When to Harvest Potatoes

An introduction to how to use herbs and flowers to make natural herbal skin care. Covers herbal extracts recipes using them to make lotions, creams, and other beauty items. Part of the DIY Herbal Skin Care series #lovelygreens #herbalskincare #diybeauty

DIY Herbal Skin Care: how to use plants to make natural beauty products

Two ways that you can make newspaper plant pots. One method gives you round pots in less than 30-seconds and the other makes square origami plant pots. Use either for starting seeds, or growing small plants in. Full instructional video included #lovelygreens #diygarden #gardeningtips

Two ways to make Newspaper Plant Pots: the quick way and the origami method

Grow a Beauty & Skin Care Garden

How to build a Small Pond for the Garden

Using Plants, Flowers, and Herbs for Skincare

Keep pots of basil alive by planting the strongest plants into their own pots. Grow supermarket basil this way and you'll have dozens of plants that will thrive all year long #lovelygreens #growbasil #gardeninghack

How to Divide and Grow Supermarket Basil

Tips on building raised garden beds including guidance on the best sizes, types of wood, and what to fill them with to grow vegetables #lovelygreens #diygarden #raisedbeds

Building Raised Garden Beds: sizes, the best wood, & tips on filling them

Paint primroses and other edible flowers with sugar to transform them into beautifully sweet decorations for desserts and cakes #lovelygreens #edibleflowers

Simple Spring Make: How to Crystallize Primroses and other Edible Flowers

How to use calendula flowers for skin and ways to make healing skincare. Shown to have powerful skin healing properties, calendula’s compounds can be easily extracted and made into homemade ointments, balms, creams, lotions, and soap #lovelygreens #herbalism #diybeauty

How to use Calendula Flowers for Skin

Save our Bees: how to ID and help Bees in the Garden. Learn what you can do to save our bees by identifying which types live in your garden and providing them with the right space, shelter, and food #lovelygreens #savethebees #organicgardening

Save our Bees: how to ID and help Bees in the Garden

Tips on how to prick out tomato seedlings, planting them into individual pots, and growing them on using grow lights. Includes an instructional video #lovelygreens #growtomatoes #vegetablegardening

Pricking out Tomato Seedlings and potting them up

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Instagram post 2192329700471203649_808153683 Strawberry season may seem a long ways off but there are things you can do now to ensure a bumper harvest:
1. Spread a mulch of compost or composted manure over the soil near your strawberry plants. Or in the area you're planning on planting them.
2. If you have an established patch, leave the old foliage on to protect the plants' crowns from snow and frost. Tidy it up later in late winter to early spring.
3. ID any plants that are three years old or older. Remove them and plan to plant new plants in their place. Older strawberry plants produce a lot less berries than younger ones.
4. Order and plant bare-root strawberry plants. They're cheaper than potted plants and get planted in the winter, just as long as the soil isn't frozen. Here in Britain you can plant them pretty much from now until early March. In colder regions, wait until the soil is work-able but get them in before early April.
5. Make sure to get a mix of June bearing, ever-bearing, and day neutral strawberry varieties. That way you'll have berries from June to September.
6. If you're expecting a lot of snow, completely cover your strawberry bed with straw, dried leaves, or another dry mulch. I've seen this tactic keep strawberry plants alive through the winter as far north as Scandinavia. Remove it in early spring.

Any tips of your own? 🍓
Instagram post 2187969248177768565_808153683 I share a lot of natural soap recipes but they’re usually made with the cold-process method. It’s fairly involved and includes an aspect that beginners shy away from: handling lye. That’s why I’m so excited to share with you this rose facial soap recipe from the @nerdyfarmwife 's new book, Easy Homemade Melt and Pour Soaps. These would make gorgeous handmade gifts and you can make them and use them the same day. See the recipe and check out Jan's new book over on my website -- link in profile🌹
Instagram post 2185577709338103538_808153683 How brave is this tender little nasturtium to bloom in November? I hope it brightens your day as much as it has mine 💚
Instagram post 2184336904980200044_808153683 Even in November the small garden pond in my allotment looks lovely. Not only that but it's home to goodness knows how many aquatic animals. Frogs, aquatic snails, tiny micro-organisms that I'll never see or know. Then there's the garden birds that swoop down for a mid-summer's drink. If there's one project that I'd recommend getting done before spring it's building your own small pond. If you need instructions, I've shared how I built mine via the link on my profile 🌱
Instagram post 2182892588034291298_808153683 Did you see the frozen berries in my Stories today? I’ve got berries on the brain and need your help. Although I love how unusual they are, I've decided to replace both my white strawberries (called pineberries) and yellow raspberries (All gold) with traditional coloured varieties. I'm considering Polka raspberries as they're an earlier fruiting autumn raspberry but am open to suggestions. No idea which strawberry variety though yet. Just BIG and RED🍓
Instagram post 2182218939484670614_808153683 The last blueberry of 2019 clinging on for dear life. As you saw in my last video, the allotment is nearly prepared for winter. Just a few more things to do before the entire process begins again next year. That’s one of the best things about gardening, it’s a job that’s never finished 🍂💚
Instagram post 2181461162399218012_808153683 The thing I love most about my home garden (at the moment) is looking through the rose arbour. There are still a few roses blooming but it's the frame it creates against the trees that I like the best. What do you love about your garden? 💚
Instagram post 2180738272586457298_808153683 Sometimes in autumn the air is still and crisp and the light a perfect shade of gold. It’s the kind of day that just begs for you to come out and play. Come spend this day with me in the full version of my latest video. It’s live on YouTube and you can get there via the link on my profile 🌗🌞🍂🌼
Instagram post 2180082751542046999_808153683 *New Video* A lot of you have been asking about the allotment garden. I've not featured it as much recently because I've been sticking closer to home to care for Louis, but don't worry, all is well. In today's new video I share the new developments on the additional half-plot, take down my raspberry canes, prune the lavender, and have a potter around the plot in that gorgeous autumn sunshine. Though the day started off with frost I was so warm by the end that I *nearly* took my jacket off. Have a watch and let me know if you enjoyed it. Use the link in my profile to take you over to the video.
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