There’s more to harvesting and drying sunflowers than many professional growers realize How soon you decide to harvest them will depend largely on energy costs, temperatures, and whether you prefer them to dry naturally
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Storage Tips For Sunflowers
The manner in which you store your sunflowers can play an important role in the preservation of your seeds (as well as the ease with which they’re unloaded) For example, if there is excess moisture during storage, it’s possible for the moisture to freeze the seeds, causing breakage
A Serenity Garden For Your Home
Most people think about their backyard garden as a place to provide them peace and quiet, a place to relax after a busy day, or maybe a place to draw closer to God Whether you rise early, to enjoy your garden before heading off to work, or come home from work and retreat to your garden to unwind, a serenity garden can help to induce a state of calmness
Easy To Grow Summer Flowers
Late spring is the perfect time to plant seeds for easy to grow summer flowers The soil needs to be warm enough for germination and the spring rains will help the seedlings get going
Tips For Growing Strawberries: Easy Garden Care
Imagine eating luscious red strawberries fresh from your garden still warm from the sun. What a treat and that treat can be yours. Here are easy tips for growing strawberries. Strawberries need at least six hours of sun a day…
Beat High Prices by Growing Your Own Tomatoes
It’s easy,very inexpensive and they taste better too so lets get started! STEP 1: Which tomatoes should I grow? If you have a long growing season then you would want to go with an indeterminate variety which grows all summer…
Let It Rot: Five Guidelines For Composting
Compost is what is left over when organic matter decomposes. Organic matter can be things like vegetable scraps, leaves, mown grass and any other garden waste. This material will decompose without any assistance at all, though you can help it…
Health is a blessing that money cannot buy
One of the key ingredients for a great life is good health and good health is derived from good nutrition. One part of good health is exercising right and the other is to eat right. The risk of acquiring diseases…
The Good In Gardening
As many experts will attest, giving your mood its much-needed jolt is being linked with getting in touch with nature. A messy house, an eyesore for a lawn, and stressful surroundings can contribute highly to the worst cases of sadness…
How to weed out back pain and sciatica symptoms when gardening. Hints and tips for a bad back.
If you love your garden as much as I do and you have backache, pinched sciatic nerve symptoms, sciatica or one of the many back pain issues you may be wondering if you can ever garden again. Gardening can be…
Can anyone say ‘Grass Clippings’?
I was bringing my daughter home from a birthday part for one of the children she babysits for… We passed a man on a riding mower going over what looked to be a good two acres of smooth green grass… it was beautiful. As we got closer, I realized he was BAGGING it. And of course, my composting mind went to, “I wonder what he DOES with all that grass?” And I started slowing down…