Clearweed
Also known as Canadian clearweed, coolwort, and richweed, clearweed (Pilea pumila) is found in the eastern and midwestern United States as well as Canada.
Don’t Eat This Type of Parsnip!
How is wild parsnip related to the vegetable that I love to sauté in butter? Like cultivated parsnips, its roots are edible. But wild parsnip’s sap can cause severe blisters and burns.
Container Gardening – Small Spaces Can Deliver Healthy Harvests
Growing vegetables in our garden is not only fun, it also encourages more nutritious eating. Unfortunately, many people simply lack the space
Container Gardening – Tickle Your Senses with Herbs
The smell of fresh herbs tickles the senses whether they are added to our food, blended to create fresh teas, experienced as aromatherapy, or dried and used as air fresheners. Herbs enhance all they touch.
Container Gardening – Taking Care of your Masterpiece
You have created a “bouquet with roots”. It may be edible, it may bear fruit, it may be snipped or picked periodically
Container Gardening – Putting the Pieces Together
Building a container garden is not that difficult from the standpoint of planting technique. Here are some basic guidelines that should be
Container Gardening – Choosing that Winning Combination!
While you may think that the most difficult part of container gardening is choosing that perfect container, actually there are several more
Container Gardening – Start at the Bottom and Build Up
The “dirt” does matter. Actually, there is no such thing as “dirt” – gardeners referred to as it the growing media plants
Container Gardening – Containers Set the Stage
As you can imagine, just about anything that holds growing media and has drainage holes can be used as the base of
Container Gardening – Gardening Art
Container gardening is all about art and personal expression using plants as the medium. It isn’t about doing everything perfectly. There is no right or wrong in creating art.