by Flora Caputo | May 11, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
SO in an effort to save money this year, I decided to start a lot of seedlings for my flower beds and pots. I started about 70+ plants indoors under a grow light beginning of March. I started them the very old fashioned way of just potting soil and spritzing water on...
by Flora Caputo | May 10, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
My previous posts talked at length about drying herbs for cooking. But what I forgot to mention is that you can grow herbs and flowers for steeping. If you are a tea drinker, this is a wonderful way to add color to your garden as well as have flavorful, organic tea...
by Flora Caputo | May 10, 2009 | Gardening, Recipes, Uncategorized
Many people grow herbs during the summer. But oftentimes you have so many plants you don’t know what to do with them all. The other sad thing is when the seasons change, and it becomes fall, most people just give up and let herbs alone to freeze and die....
by Flora Caputo | May 10, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
I discovered last year that coffee grounds are a great, natural compost for plants. What is nice about this is that you aren’t filling landfills with it. I was told by a gardening friend that coffee grounds tend to make the ground slightly more acidic, so I laid...
by Flora Caputo | Apr 24, 2009 | Gardening, Uncategorized
If you are looking for unique things to decorate your garden with, but have a shoe-string budget, do what I do and hit all the thrift stores in your neighborhood. I find many cute little tables I can use outright, put mosaics on, or paint decoratively to use near...
by Flora Caputo | Sep 8, 2008 | Gardening, Uncategorized
People often compliment me on my green thumb. But I can tell you that it is only through many mistakes (most of them costly) and learning from them that I have become a good gardener. This has never been more true than during fall clean-up time. When I cut corners and...
