It’s January once more and freezing outside! This beach girl despises cold weather! So needless to say, January and February are my least favorite months. I call them the winter blues month and here is why… The holidays are over. The house is stripped of all the festive, pretty greenery of the Christmas trees, wreaths…
How to Make Indoor Hydroponic Gardens Using IKEA Boxes
Hey house and little space residents, here’s a simple DIY compact hydroponic indoor farm system you can make with repurposed off-the-shelf IKEA storage boxes. ELIOOO is not a product, it’s architect and designer Antonio Scarponi’s cleverly conceived and created user’s manual that teaches any metropolitan garden enthusiast how to build, run, and keep a choice…
Easy Children Garden Activities
I understand it might appear strange to be discussing gardening so early in the year. We are still waking up to wintry mornings and drippy days. In the past, my husband and I have actually put in a summer garden, planting in May and harvesting through September. When fall rolls in, I pop garlic in…
How To Grow Plants Without Soil Using Aquaponics
Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil). The wastes from the fish are broken down by germs living in the growing medium, and converted into a form that can be utilized by the plants. Integrated Vertical Tube System Here’s an illustration and an image of the integrated vertical…
Shelfie Plants
Plants, records, candle lights, books: time to get all your faves together to produce the perfect #SHELFIE. With five various personalities in mind, we have actually created five of our extremely own to help you start Images by CJ Harvey The Person Who’s Obsessed With That One Pinterest Image of the Color-Coordinated Books Honestly, color-coordinating…
How To Re-Pot Indoor Plants
The long daytime hours of late spring (and summertime, for that matter) are like rocket fuel for indoor plants. With the greater temperature levels and increased light, your plants just wish to spread their roots and grow, grow, grow To make the most of the peak growing season, this is the ideal time to re-pot…
Sedum Projects & DIY Succulent Planters
I believe I was affected growing up in the ’70’s in California, where succulents were normally half dead hen and chicks filling a lawn individuals believed was no maintenance … So when succulents began to gain a resurgence in appeal, I scoffed. The fact is that succulents and sedums are beautifully colored, textural, simple to…
How To Make A Color Blocked Succulent Pot
Have you seen succulent gardens popping up all over the location recently? I do not know if you’ve heard of this thing called an indoor plant black thumb, however that’s my deal. Indoor plants? The Home Depot holds regular monthly Do-It-Herself workshops, similar to their do-it-yourself workshops and popular kids. I participated in one last…
How Yo Grow Microgreens In Your Windowsill
When Gardening Space is Restricted or Non Existent The warm summer season air has got me yearning to plant, seed, sprout, and grow something. But city dwelling does not constantly lend itself well to this job. Without outside area or even a veranda (and the neighborhood garden down the street has a five-year wait list)…
6 Vegetable Gardening Tips
1) Let there be light Many veggies, particularly those that bear fruit (tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, and peppers, for example) require sun, and a great deal of it. Ideally, you desire a website with at least 8 hours of direct sun each day. In less light, you can still grow some edibles; mainly leafy crops and…
How to Grow 8 Great Herbs Indoors All Year round
Growing herbs inside your home is an excellent method to expand your gardening space. I have found that not all herbs do well growing in the house; but these 8 seem to consistently do well and keep me in herbs all year long! Growing herbs indoors, like all indoor plants, has fantastic health advantages too!…
How to Grow Oyster Mushrooms Indoors
Include oyster mushrooms to the list of food that can be grown indoors! This fungus can grow almost anywhere from a log to a straw. Plus, you can pick the size of your oyster mushrooms from a variety, both huge and little. Oyster mushrooms are probably the simplest kind of mushrooms to grow. Though they…
Aloe Vera Use For Your Hair
Let’s face it, store-bought organic lotion’s are full of so many additives and chemicals that aren’t good for us! What’s more, anything that even remotely claims to be organic or free of chemical-x,y,z are through-the-roof-expensive. It’s just plain ridiculous. As a food scientist, I came up with my own homemade baby lotion (it’s also amazing…
How to Make These Easy Do It Yourself Succulents
Making these succulent wedding favors? When we spotted these potted succulent favors, we discovered simply how easy these were to make, even on a bigger scale (i.e. for wedding event prefers or bridal shower prefers ). You’ll just require a couple of standard supplies that are simple and quite economical to discover; we’ll inform you…
13 Herbs To Grow In Your Kitchen
You can still keep that taste at hand and please your yearnings when you grow them indoors if you love what fresh herbs can do for food. There are a surprising variety of herbs that will prosper as indoor plants. All it takes is an intense space, a couple of well-chosen ranges and a spirit…
How To Make A Hydroponic Bottle Garden
Hydroponic Hanging Garden. Fantastic technique for growing veggies and herbs in a confined area, easy to look after, develop a tiny green home environment in any window. Supplies needed! in this case i used 8 oz -600 ml water bottles (ideally all the exact same). Roofing system & & seamless gutter Silicon, 6 small squares…
12 Unique Hanging Plants
One of the most convenient methods to turn your home into a home is to bring in the outdoors by adding green plants. A basic green plant brings appeal, character, depth, and nature into your area. I do not always have the greenest of thumbs, however I do discover that having real flowers and plants…
Beginning Seeds Indoors Without A Grow Light
Have you ever before contrasted the price of a lone tomato plant from the nursery with a packet of tomato seeds?. The difference is a little bit stunning. Especially if you desire organic or heirloom tomato plants! This holds true for most types of plants, not simply tomatoes.. Since I expand such a large quantity…
7 Reasons Your Succulents are Passing away
These 7 reasons your succulents are dying your consideration, make the changes needed, and enjoy the succulents you have always dreamed of. Do you enjoy the look of succulents however can’t appear to keep them alive? Do you normally have a green thumb (or not!) but succulents simply don’t seem your thing? It sounds like…
Wintergarten selber machen – Wissenswertes und praktische Tipps
Wenn Sie sich zum Wintergarten Selber Machen entscheiden, dann kommen Sie zu einer der gr\u00f6\u00dften Verbesserungen, welche male \u00fcberhaupt zu Hause unternehmen kann. Egal, ob Sie irgendwo auf dem Lande oder in einer Gro\u00dfstadt wohnen, werden Sie dadurch in Ihr Leben viel mehr Spannung und Lebensfreude hereinbringen. Machen Sie den Wintergarten selber, so tragen Sie…