Daffodil Soap Recipe using Real Flowers
Daffodil petals naturally tint soap yellow Recipe and instructions on how to use daffodil petals to naturally color soap yellow While researching natural colors that can be used in soap
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20+ Ideas & Projects for a Rainy Garden
Make your Garden Beautiful, Rain or Shine Here in Britain our summers are hit or miss. They can be stunning with warmth and sunshine or we can have weeks of
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Beekeeping Harvest: Crushing and Straining Honey
Finding ‘wild’ comb in my hive and extracting honey from it. It’s been a very busy couple of weeks for me with filling orders over at Lovely Greens Handmade, taking guests
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Review of Gro-ables® Seed Pods
Easy to grow Edibles from Miracle Gro Gro-able Seed Pods could be a solution to get more people interested in growing edibles. Though not strictly ‘Organic’ they have clear benefits.
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Growing the Blue Himalayan Poppy
It took two years to grow the Blue Himalayan Poppy Blue Himalayan Poppies are best grown from divisions – small plants that are divided off the parent plant. Last year I
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Our Communal Garden Shed at the Laxey & Lonan Allotment
Every year our allotment gets together to clean tidy up our communal garden shed. Allotments are generally public or private associations of people who garden together on rented land sub-divided
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Wild Food Foraging: Finding and using Wild Garlic
Delicious wild garlicky leaves that are easy to ID How to find, pick, and use Wild Garlic in fresh spring dishes. This delicious wild edible is a must-have for any
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Building a Wildlife Pond in the Vegetable Garden
Build a small pond in the garden to attract frogs. Frogs are an organic gardener’s best friend since they love eating slugs and other garden pests. Although I try my
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Spring Gardening: purple potatoes, propagating Basil, & forcing Rhubarb
There’s a lot keeping me busy in the garden Planting purple potatoes, propagating Basil, forcing Rhubarb, and building a pond. I look back at photos of past vegetable gardens in
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