Summer is drawing to an end the leaves are slowly turning from their fresh green into cosy orange. But I am not yet done with summer I want at least one more slow evening filled with twilight and bat acrobatics.
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Top 10 herbs for growing a herbal tea garden
Growing a herbal tea garden is a fantastic way to start gardening since herbs are fairly easy to grow. Grow herbs in your windowsill or in your backyard. Attract beneficial insects increasing the biodiversity of your home. And be rewarded with delicious organic cups of herbal tea to be enjoyed while watching the butterflies.
Weeds in your garden? Reasons to love them and how to use them
If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you’ll probably feel unlucky enough to also have weeds in said garden. But why do we despise weeds anyway? Weeds are actually very beneficial for wildlife, and plenty of them are edible or are actually very pretty when they flower. So why not give them a chance and allow a little bit more weeds in our garden and our life.
Did your seedlings stop growing?
If you’ve ever tried to grow plants from seeds, you will be well aware that growing from seed can be confusing at times. Especially if it seems that your seedlings stop growing after a while. So how do you get your seedlings to start growing again?
Planning your garden while renting
Even though in the winter it is cold outside. It is in the winter you want to start planning your garden. Because when the weather warms up, you want to be able to start immediately. Without having to think about where and what you want to plant. But how do you even plan if you’re currently renting and can’t alter the yard?
Foraging for hawthorn and its folklore
Growing up I had never seen or heard about a hawthorn, mainly because in the Netherlands there aren’t that many. But in Ireland, they are everywhere. You see them in the parks, and next to the roads, sometimes they’re thin and small and other times tall and unruly. But the blossom makes the whole countryside come alive, the clusters of white flowers that filled every nook and cranny. Later I saw the berries and wondered if I could eat them. Turns out you can!
Nettles against hay fever
Nettles are your best friend. In times past, people believed that they purified the blood, got rid of rheumatism, helped with long and airway problems, and much more. It depends on the specific area of what type of other ailments people believed it cured, but they all believed that it was an all-round good herb. But people have now figured out that there is actually merit to some uses of nettle, namely hay fever.
How to propagate plant cuttings
We all love plants and especially when we have a plant, or a friend has a plant that we like very much, we want a second. Then, what better way is there to get a second, then to take a plant cutting. Because when we take a cutting, you will be able to get a copy of the plant. As opposed to when you use that plant’s seed, which is that plants child and will be slightly different.