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Love Cooking? Here’s How Growing Herbs Indoors Can Change Your Kitchen Game

November 15, 2024 by Vanessa Bermudez Leave a Comment

Love Cooking Here’s How Growing Herbs Indoors Can Change Your Kitchen Game

Do you enjoy creating mouthwatering dishes but wish you had fresh ingredients at your fingertips? Growing herbs indoors is the secret weapon every home chef needs. It’s easy, affordable, and adds a flavorful twist to your kitchen routine. Here’s how cultivating your own indoor herb garden can elevate your cooking and lifestyle. 1. Freshness at…

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Filed Under: indoor gardening Tagged With: Cooking with herbs, Fresh herbs in kitchen, Growing Herbs Indoors, Indoor herb gardening, Kitchen gardening tips

Cheap and Effective Liquid Nutrients for Your Indoor Plants

March 27, 2023 by Kathryn Vercillo Leave a Comment

Liquid Nutrients for Indoor Plants

If you’re a plant enthusiast, then you know that your indoor plants require a balance of light, water, and nutrients to thrive. While water and sunlight are easy to provide, it can be challenging to find the right liquid nutrients for indoor plants without breaking the bank. Fortunately, there are plenty of cheap and effective…

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Filed Under: indoor gardening Tagged With: diy liquid fertilizer, diy plant nutrients, indoor gardening, indoor plants, liquid nutrients

Ponytail Palm Plant

March 20, 2023 by Kathryn Vercillo Leave a Comment

Ponytail Palm Plant

ponytail palm behind the couch on the left, image via Unspash @stephwilll I recently discovered a plant that I hadn’t ever known before. It’s called the ponytail palm. However, it’s not actually a palm tree / plant at all. Instead, it’s a succulent. And yet it looks just like a tiny little palm tree. It’s adorable….

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Filed Under: indoor gardening Tagged With: agave, bottle palm, elephant foot plant, indoor plants, ponytail palm, succulent

Inexpensive Alternatives To Grow Lights

June 22, 2022 by Kathryn Vercillo Leave a Comment

(X) Inexpensive Alternatives To Grow Lights

Grow lights can be a really helpful tool for indoor gardening. Many people find that they are worth their cost. However, they aren’t cheap. Therefore, you might want to consider some of these inexpensive alternatives to grow lights. What Are Grow Lights? Grow lights are exactly what their name says: lights designed to help plants…

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Filed Under: indoor gardening Tagged With: alternative lighting, DIY, garden lighting, grow lights, indoor gardening

8 Uses of Baking Soda in Gardening

December 20, 2021 by Kathryn Vercillo Leave a Comment

uses of baking soda in gardening

Baking soda is one of the most amazing, affordable products available to us. Hopefully, you’re already using baking soda for cleaning throughout your home. If not, then you’re spending more money than you should on household cleaners. And today let’s talk about how baking soda’s benefits don’t stop there. There are so many uses of…

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Filed Under: garden tips, houseplants, indoor gardening, pests Tagged With: baking soda, diy gardening, eco-friendly, garden cleaners, garden pests, gardening tips

Indoor Plants That Produce Soothing Aromas

June 8, 2021 by Steph Coelho Leave a Comment

Indoor Plants That Produce Soothing Aromas

  For over a year now, many people have spent more time indoors than usual. The bonus? More time to admire your indoor plants? The downside? Well, truthfully, there are a lot. But plant-wise, it’s probably realizing that most of your pretty plants don’t do much to refresh the stale air in your home. So…

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10 Top Reasons Why Seeds Don’t Germinate

April 6, 2021 by Steph Coelho Leave a Comment

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  There are a lot of reasons why seeds don’t germinate. Knowing what can go wrong is the first step in solving the problem. If you’re struggling to start seeds this spring, here are a few things to look out for. Why Aren’t Seeds Germinating? Here are a few common reasons why seeds don’t germinate….

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Which Indoor Plants Purify Air?

March 15, 2021 by Steph Coelho Leave a Comment

Indoor plants that can purify air

  Let’s get one thing straight. You probably won’t improve your home’s air quality by filling it with indoor plants that can purify the air. According to a National Geographic piece from 2019, houseplants won’t do much to clean your home’s air.  Most of the advice about air-purifying houseplants comes from an old NASA study. In a…

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How to Dye Flowers With Food Coloring

February 8, 2021 by Steph Coelho Leave a Comment

With the pandemic still limiting social outings, parents may be dreading the upcoming spring break. This fun little project is a great way to expend some creative energy during the March break or all through the summer. Dye flowers with food coloring and make a rainbow to display in a favorite vase. Use storebought flowers…

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Filed Under: indoor gardening, kids Tagged With: kid's activity, plant experiment, plant science, science

5 Houseplants That Won’t Waste Your Money

February 1, 2021 by Steph Coelho Leave a Comment

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  Ever since the pandemic began, I slowly started buying houseplants. I’d scour my favorite online nurseries and pounce when they had a sale or coupon code up for grabs. Of course, I already had some plants before the COVID situation, but adding more made my home feel cozier, livelier. When buying plants, I always…

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Should You Buy Clearance Trees and Shrubs in Fall? Check the Roots First

A $60 shrub marked down to $20 can make the garden-center clearance rack very difficult to walk past. Fall discounts on trees and shrubs can be genuine bargains, particularly when retailers simply need to reduce inventory before winter, but a low price doesn’t automatically make a struggling plant worth rescuing. Plants that have spent months…

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Can You Plant Potatoes From the Grocery Store? Here’s the Catch

We’ve all found one: a forgotten potato at the back of the pantry with several determined-looking sprouts growing from its eyes. Throwing it away feels wasteful, especially when those sprouts make it look ready to become an entire crop of free potatoes. Technically, planting grocery store potatoes can produce plants because the potato itself is…

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Before You Bag Your Fall Leaves, Try These 5 Free Uses for Them

Every autumn, homeowners rake up something surprisingly valuable, stuff it into bags, and send it away—only to spend money on mulch, compost, and soil amendments a few months later. Fallen leaves contain organic matter and nutrients that can be recycled right where they land, and Penn State estimates that the leaves from one large shade tree can provide…

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Leaving Soil Bare All Winter? You May Be Creating More Work for Spring

After the last tomatoes are picked and exhausted vegetable plants come out, a perfectly bare garden bed can feel satisfyingly clean. The problem is that soil doesn’t necessarily benefit from spending the next several months exposed to pounding rain, wind, weeds, freezing temperatures, and repeated freeze-thaw cycles. University of Minnesota recommends keeping garden soil covered…

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