What can you learn about growing vegetables from a seed packet? In the garden classes I teach, I’m often asked “how do you know when you can plant a certain vegetable in the garden and should I plant the seed directly in the garden, or should I purchase or grow a transplant? You can spend…
Can Your Backyard Vegetable Garden Help Reduce Your Risk of Cancer?
Can Your Backyard Vegetable Garden Help Reduce Your Risk of Cancer? February is National Cancer Prevention Month. The MD Anderson Cancer Center at The University of Texas shares several ways you can reduce your risk of cancer. As a gardener, I was wondering if my own backyard vegetable garden could help me reduce those risk…
Tired of Paying High Prices for Salad Greens? Grow Your Own Salad Garden
Grow Your Own Salad Garden Are you tired of paying high prices for salad greens? Well you should be. Salad greens are one of the easiest vegetables to grow in the garden, and can be grown in containers for those that don’t have a lot of space. Those salad greens you eat? They were probably…
Looking For Simple Tips to Grow A Successful Vegetable Garden?
How do you grow a successful vegetable garden? Are you wondering how you can grow a successful vegetable garden? You’ve tried googling, watching endless you tube videos, and are only more confused. Or, maybe you’ve tried before, but gave up that summer when whatever the weeds didn’t take over, the pests had eaten. There is…
Seed Packet Christmas Ornaments
Botanical Interest has some of the prettiest seed packets. They look like artwork and it’s hard to throw them away once the seeds are planted. I had purchased several packets at my local garden center with plans to tuck them into Christmas cards. I also needed to purchase a gift for my work’s gift exchange…
Christmas Herbs: Rosemary
Herbs have been used for thousands of years, and paintings of herbs have even been found in prehistoric caves. It’s no surprise that they were in use during the time of Jesus since they were a part of the landscape of the mediterranean region. After reading an article about Rosemary and it’s significance at Christmas…
How Do You Care for a Christmas Cactus?
As a gardener, I miss being outside during the winter, growing in my garden. One way I get my garden “fix” is taking care of my houseplants. When the weather started getting cooler, I brought all of my houseplants inside. None of my houseplants with the exception of my peace plant, bloom. This year to…
Give the Gift of a Garden
I love Botanical Interest Seeds. They have the highest quality seed in the most beautiful and informative seed packets on the market. They include art, garden history, landscape ideas, organic gardening know-how, recipes, fun facts, and of course, high-quality seed. Winter is the perfect time to dream of next year’s garden and if you have…
How to Care for Fall Mums
Just as the summer garden is beginning to look, well, a little haggard, in comes the mums! Beginning in September, the nurseries, home improvement stores, and even the local food markets are filled with chrysanthemums. Orange, white, yellow, deep burgundy and even green line the tables. One of the big nurseries near me advertises that…
Growing Herbs
Herbs are some of the easiest plants to grow, and are a great way for the beginning gardener to start growing their own fresh food. And, there is no comparison in taste to herbs gathered fresh from the garden and those that you buy at the grocery store. You can also grow herbs that you…
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