If you have a garden, you know it’s important to add nutrients back into the soil. One way to do this is to add compost to your garden. There are a few options for how to get compost, you can buy it, get it from someone you know, or make your own. Making your own …
Bees and butterflies are important pollinators. They help to pollinate much of our food supply. Without bees and butterflies, many types of food will be difficult, if not impossible, to grow. Unfortunately, these important pollinators have been in decline for the last several years. So, what can be done to help bees and butterflies? One …
Do you love watching butterflies? Do you enjoy seeing hummingbirds? Or would you just like to help the bees? Planting a pollinator garden will allow you to do all of these things. Last summer I noticed that we had a few butterflies and even a hummingbird or two. I enjoyed watching them so much that …
We’ve lived in this house for two years now. Our first full year had a fairly dry winter. We had snow, but not much. Since there wasn’t much snow, the sump pump didn’t need to run much. Since it didn’t run much we didn’t realize that it could become an issue during the spring snow …
Gardening can be an enjoyable hobby, except when your dogs decide to traipse through your garden. A mud-covered dog, especially an 83-pound German Shepherd terrified of the bathtub, is not fun. Large paw prints where I want to plant a seedling, or seed, are a pain. Besides Luna causing problems with my garden, there is …
I love plants. I have many houseplants and recently discovered that having houseplants in my bedroom could improve my sleep. As I haven’t been sleeping very well lately, I figured it was worth a try. I did more research and compiled a list of plants that may help a person sleep. Even if they don’t …
