TIPS ON SAVING AND STORING SEEDS Your garden is planted for the season. What should you do with those leftover seeds? Should you store them? If so, how? How long will they remain viable? The good news is that properly stored, this year’s seeds will last about three years. Here are some tips for proper […]
Category: Organic Gardening
HOW TO USE FALL LEAVES IN YOUR GARDEN
THOSE AUTUMN LEAVES! 1. Use them to feed your lawn. Chopped up leaves add valuable organic matter and minerals to the lawn. If you don’t have a leaf chopper, simply leave them in place and run over them with a lawn mower several times. 2. Use them as mulch. In the winter, an insulating cover […]
FIRE ANTS! ARE THERE ANY NONTOXIC SOLUTIONS?
Fire ants are a terrible menace. They are small, easily unobserved as they crawl up your leg. Then at the release of a pheromone signal they all sting at once. And those stings are painful! They can hurt and itch for weeks — even leave scars. Fire ants don’t bite. They sting like wasps and bees, […]
HOMEMADE WEED KILLERS
9 Do-It-Yourself Weed Killing Tips —Environmentally Friendly, No Pesticides! What to do with those leftover cocktails? . . . Got a patch of sprouting weeds? The perfect place to toss cocktails left over from a party! (Any form of alcohol will work to dehydrate small weeds — from rubbing alcohol to whiskey.) Destroy poison ivy and poison […]