GARDENING
DIY Natural Fertilizers & Homemade Pesticides For Your Garden
Store bought fertilizers and pesticides could be dangerous to the health of your family, including your pets. Use these easy recipes and tips to grow a lush and verdant garden and for a bountiful produce of flowers, fruits and vegetables.
The Magic of Microgreens
Microgreens are easy to grow, easy to harvest, easy to prepare, delicious to eat, and highly nutritious. Check out this blog to make your own microgreens.
Enjoy Fresh Tomatoes Until Thanksgiving
If you want to be picking fresh, ripe tomatoes until Thanksgiving, now is the time to plant your favorite tomato variety in your garden! The plants will love the warm soil and reward you with quick growth. By the time the plants are mature enough to begin blossoming,...
Horticulture Therapy
As a member of the Collin County Master Gardener's Association, I have had the wonderful opportunity to volunteer at various Horticulture Therapy events. Until I joined this organization, I had never heard of such programs. Horticulture Therapy (HT) is a wonderful way...
It’s Easy to Grow Colorful Caladiums
I’ve started seeing Caladium tubers for sale in the garden centers. Unless there’s a specific variety that you’re looking for, resist the urge to buy them unless you are willing to hold them in a warm spot, or pot them up until it’s time to plant them. Caladiums are...
Ikebana as Meditation – by Janaki Rao
Meditation is a word that is as familiar to me as my name. My late father was an ardent proponent of Transcendental Meditation, a method introduced by His Holiness Maharshi Mahesh Yogi, way back in the early 1950s. My parents were among his first disciples then,...
No Space to Garden? No Problem!
I often hear people say – “I don’t have space to grow my fruits and vegetables”. Here are a few ideas on how to get going.
