You’ve worked hard to create an interior space that conveys your sense of style. Your favourite finishes, textures and colours offer a sense of place that’s uniquely you. Your outdoor living space needs to be an extension — or an echo — from your house’s interior design, and color is an element that can easily …
Green beans are one of the vegetables in the supermarket. Why increase your own? First, they are easy and quick to produce, making them a good selection for a beginning gardener. Second, and probably more significant, growing your own beans permits you to enjoy the great range of beans available, such as a few gourmet …
Celery and its cousin celeriac, or celery root, are somewhat all picky. They’re picky about weather. They want it cool, and they want it cool for quite a while. They’re fantastic crops for cool-summer areas, as temperatures of 70 to 75 degrees Fahrenheit during the day and 60 degrees at night are ideal. Celery can …
If you cook at all, there’s a good chance garlic is a staple in your kitchen. You can grow your own, picking, if you’re also a gardener. Additionally, the elevation of these plants, reaching two feet, and their gray-green leaves make them a nice addition to your garden bed. Garlic is a true fall crop. …
Several plant-care products, such as fertilizers, recommend spreading them when plants are somewhat moist so the products stick to the leaves better. That is not the case with Roundup, which was made to kill weeds and other unwanted plants. Roundup works best when the leaves are dry, though its quick absorption rate means you may …
Baby tears is a delicate creeping herb with little glowing green kidney-shaped leaves and multitudes of almost inconspicuous white flowers when in bloom. It grows close to the floor in mats and is often utilized in decorative gardens alongside ferns and other moisture-loving plants; it is also used as a general ground cover. Fortunately for …
Growing edibles, whether veggies, fruit or herbs, has come a long way from the days of big gardens and an equally large time commitment. Now, with the ideal preparation, you can grow your edibles along the edge of a deck, in pots on your patio or perhaps on the edge of a wall onto a …
Celebrate the beauty of character this Earth Day by bringing it to the house. A 2012 publication, Bringing Nature Home: Floral Arrangements Inspired by Nature, by Ngoc Minh Ngo (Rizzoli New York), provides page after page of inspiration on how to do so. The arrangements she photographed “strive to capture the organic gestures of blossoms …