How to make Hawthorn Tincture
Use foraged hawthorn berries and vodka to make hawthorn tincture. This recipe follows a folk method and creates a medicine that is used for heart health and enhancing memory.
Useful Tips for How to Grow an Indoor Vegetable Garden
Grow your own food throughout the year with an indoor vegetable garden. Discover the best vegetables to grow indoors, how to grow food hydroponically or with potting mix, lighting, nutrient and water requirements, pest advice, and tools.
Beautiful Edible Houseplants to Grow for Food and Decor
This guide to edible houseplants will help inspire your indoor space whether you want to grow food indoors or spice up your houseplant collection No matter how large or small our outdoor gardening spaces are, the popularity of houseplants is on the rise. Bringing them into our homes creates an indoor green oasis and they’re…
How to Plant a Winter Vegetable Garden
How to plant a winter vegetable garden with crops to harvest throughout the cold season. Includes tips on when to sow and plant winter crops, growing both outdoors and undercover, and overwintering your vegetables for spring. People often think that gardening stops in winter but that doesn’t have to be the case. As day lengths…
How to Build a DIY Wood Pallet Potting Bench
Step-by-step instructions for how to build a wood pallet potting bench. This is an inexpensive unit that you can stand at to do gardening jobs like sowing seeds and potting plants. The shelf underneath is also great for storing gardening materials. DIY video included #gardeningproject #pallet #palletproject
DIY Sea Glass Stepping Stone
How to make garden stepping stones using colorful sea glass. This project requires only a few inexpensive materials including glass pieces. Sea glass can have romantic origins — it could come from old Victorian bottles or broken glass from a shipwreck. Most of the time it comes from modern-day bottles. Most of the rubbish that…
DIY Raspberry Cane Garden Edging
Use pruned raspberry canes to create attractive woven garden edging. This easy project is great for the vegetable garden or for decorative borders. Every gardener who grows raspberries goes through the same winter ritual: taking out the old wood. Whether you have autumn or summer fruiting varieties you’ll be left with a bundle of canes that…
Sweet Orange Soap Recipe + Soap Making Instructions
Make this fragrant orange soap recipe with a special orange essential oil and tiny flecks of orange zest. Includes cold-process soap making instructions When I used to sell soap from a market stall, I’d have customers approach and ask for naturally scented soap that suits the entire family. Nothing too floral or spicy, and something…
February Garden Jobs for the Vegetable Garden
February garden jobs including seeds to sow, crops to harvest, winter garden organization, and projects for the vegetable garden. February is a great month to get ahead in the garden and make your start on this year’s productive vegetable garden. This selection of February garden jobs will help you learn how to choose and chit…