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Anchusa – Small bright blue flowers just like Forget-me-Nots. Mid taste, used for garnish in salads. Anise Hyssop – Mild licorice flavour. Use in fruit desserts and tea or as a garnish for iced tea Apple Blossoms – They are lovely, fragrant, edible and delicate. Sometimes they don’t taste good but they’re ok to eat. … Read more

Tanglefoot is a very effective, natural pesticide product for trees that helps them combat the over-wintering bugs that cause damage to your trees in the spring. These insects include gypsy moths, canker worms, weevils, ants, caterpillars, moths, cutworms and more. If you’ve never used this product before then I’ll share with you a few helpful tips … Read more

Felco is a well known, high quality name and is considered the Cadillac of garden pruners. When you buy a set of Felco’s you can be assured that you are buying top quality tool from a company that stands behind their product. Felco has many different sizes and styles of pruner but the F-2 is … Read more

Perlite and vermiculite are two minerals that expand greatly when heated. They are commonly combined with bark or peat moss in potting mixes. They’re often used as the growth medium in hydroponics systems. They’re also used in combination together. They are both clean, sterile, odorless and non-toxic. Neither will rot or turn moldy. When mixed … Read more

Gardening is a whole lot easier when you start out with a few high quality tools that are made tough for the job.   They’ll make your life so much easier and things will get done more easily and with less effort than if you choose inferior tools.  The tools featured here are some of the ones … Read more

This year I’ve chosen Green Arrow Shelling Peas to grow as one of my small space food garden items. This article will be about how that goes right from the beginning planting right to the end mature plant and hopefully to a successful harvest with delicious peas to eat. The container I chose for this … Read more

I didn’t even know what a root weevil was for all the years I was gardening at my last place which is in a mostly rural setting. But then, 18 months ago I had to move on short notice. So I packed up, picked up and dragged my mature 12 year old garden in the … Read more

The video below was shot from my kitchen window in mid January 2012. You can clearly see the snow on the ground in the background and no flowers. There are very limited food sources for the birds this time of year. I had never hung a feeder out before this video. It is quite literally … Read more

Gardening without a lot of sun can be a challenge, but it’s not impossible. There are some veggies that are more tolerant to shady conditions than others. Generally the plants with larger wider leaves are the more tolerant ones, such as lettuce. spinach, kale, arugula and chard. There are more listed below and there are … Read more

GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism, sometimes also known as Genetically Engineered Organism. I will start by saying that this article is written very much in my opinion of GMO, you may or may not agree.  I believe that GMO foods might be adversely affecting our health, in ways we don’t completely understand yet. Many … Read more