Tag: garden
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Get Rid of A Wasp Nest Without Toxins
Amazing how quickly wasps can build a nest. We found a dessert plate size nest built over the course of a week. While normally our motto is “Live and Let Live” this nest posed a threat to my children’s play space. One actually flew up to a child who was no where near the nest…
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Directory of Culinary and Medicinal Herbs
Many herbs are also valuable in the medicine cabinet, whether you’re looking for natural relief for a cold or headache, or trying to ease more chronic ailments, such as allergies, back pain or high blood pressure. Identify herbs to meet your health needs or goals, learn the basic medicinal preparations — teas, infusions and tinctures — and find simple…
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Always plants flowers in your vegetable garden
Growing your own food is the best way to insure you know what’s ON your food. As the snow continues to fall, our thoughts turn to garden planning and seed starting. If you’re still growing flowers and vegetables on opposite sides of your yard, it’s time rethink your garden plan. Companion planting flowers and vegetables…
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GROW YOUR OWN: Tomatoes and Peppers
You can taste the sun in a ripe homegrown tomato, but only if the tomato plant has enjoyed a robust, healthy life. This is no great challenge in climates where summers are long and warm, but you will need special varieties to grow great tomatoes if you have a short, cool season. Disease resistance is…
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SPOTLIGHT: Moscow Local Organic
Affinity Farm Certified Organic grower Moscow, Idaho Founded in 2001, Affinity Farm strives to grow and sell the highest quality vegetables and bedding plants. Our mission is to engage in a “right livelihood” producing healthy food for our selves and our customers with as little environmental impact as possible. We farm using only “organic” methods,…
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Are Your Plant Containers Leaching Toxins Into Your Food?
Think twice before you decide what containers to put your plants in, particularly when it comes to edibles. Why? The very same properties that make soil a perfect channel for nutrients and water to find their way into plants also make it a channel for harmful toxins, especially ones that are hiding inside the pots…