Food
The Ultimate Guide To Growing Black Pepper
Black pepper is the most commonly used spice in the world and, paired with salt, is found on most tables in the U.S. The plant that it comes from, common pepper (Piper nigrum), has been [ … ]
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Food
How The Praying Mantis Skyrockets Your Garden Production
The praying mantis is an exceptional bug. If you are lucky, you have them in your backyard and elsewhere on your property. Mantises are some of the largest insects around and have one of the [ … ]
Food
5 Water-Saving Garden Tips To Slash Your Water Bill
As a child growing up in southern Idaho, I understood that water was a valuable commodity. The adults in my life frequently talked about the weather, especially in relation to crops. Too much rainfall could [ … ]
Food
Top 12 Garden Blogs You Must Read
As a writer, I spend a lot of time on my computer. Between writing and doing research for my writing, I log at least five hours each day. So, the idea of spending more computer [ … ]
Food
How to Make Your Own Pallet Vertical Garden
Why let your vegetables grow out when you can grow them up? Vertical gardens are becoming increasingly popular as attractive and efficient ways of growing food, especially for urban dwellers where horizontal space is limited. [ … ]
Food
Getting The Most Corn For Your Kernel
Corn is one of the best vegetables to grow because of just how easy it is to grow, even when other vegetables are succumbing to the brutal heat of the summer. A lot of gardening [ … ]
Food
Top 5 Ginger Remedies You Must Know
The smell that permeates the air in your home when you add fresh ginger to a meal is simply incredible. Ginger offers unique aromas and flavors that can transform dishes into something quite impressive. There [ … ]
Food
Rhubarb: An Old-Fashioned Vegetable
When I think of rhubarb, I always think of my grandmother. Like many gardeners of her time, she grew this large, old-fashioned, perennial vegetable in a sunny corner of the garden. The leaves, which are [ … ]
Food
Vegetable Gardening When You Are Short On Time
Gardeners often love to pore over seed catalogs, dreaming about which new varieties to try this year, planning their gardens in meticulous detail, and then put their planning into practice. Much time can be spent [ … ]
Food
Gardening In Even The Smallest Of Spaces
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the cost of food has skyrocketed over the last couple of years. It seems that every time you go into the store that the cost of at [ … ]