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Fast Plants for Sandwiches
One of the delights of cooking is the ability to add your own homegrown ingredients. Nothing more so if you think you need green fingers to do so. Growing seeds for eating and being able to harvest them with in a week is within the grasp of anyone with a windowsill! The modern need for fresh eating has made this possible.
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How to Grow Tulips in Containers
Tulips are some of the more popular bulbs in the world. Reading the book “The Black Tulip” by Alexander Dumas as a child created an interest for life in these bulbs. Introduced to Europe from Turkey over 400 years ago … Continue reading
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Chillies or Capsicums
Growing capsicum or Chillies is easy from seed. Choose the seeds that you require whether it is the sweet or hot peppers. The seeds chosen will respond in the same way. The windows of opportunity for growing the seeds is a small one and to get the best results, start growing your seedlings a month or six weeks before they are planted in their final place whether in a container or garden. Continue reading
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Super food Silverbeet
Whether you call it silver beet or chard, this vegetable remains one of nature’s nutrient rich products. A member of the beetroot family its scientific name is beta vulgaris cicla. This plant is sometimes confused with spinach but the leaves are much larger than spinach although both can be picked over a period of time if they are grown quickly.
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Chamomile for the quiet Life
I have discovered a new respect for the old remedies and healing ways of past generations. Those of who never knew the advantages of the health providers, the modern world enjoys today. Even in some of the poorer parts of the world, traditional medicine is practiced still, using herbs and garden plants. One of those plants that achieved its own niche in the daily health of our forebears is chamomile. This little herbs history goes back to the Greeks, the Egyptians, and the early Anglo Saxons. They considered it as useful in lowering fevers, and for its calming effects.
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Tagged Chamomile, chamomile uses, Growing chamomile, how to grow chamomile
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Healthy Blueberries
Blueberries are considered in today’s health conscious world, a great food for healthy eating, and its ability to supply essential vitamins and antioxidants high on the list of essential foods. They are the perfect little plants for growing on a balcony or patio, or their alter ego that grows between .50cm -5m high in an out door situation. The blueberry predominately found in the north Americas, but are now grown commercially and domestically in the southern hemisphere countries of Australia, Argentina and New Zealand
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Tagged antioxidant food, blueberries, Blueberry, healthy foods, vitamin enriched blueberries
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Heavenly Hyacinths
Their scent pervades the house from their containers; plant them on the balcony to captivate as we pass through to the garden. Originating from the Mediterranean and western Asia, the ones we see today are developed in Holland. Continue reading
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Tagged container bulbs, growing bulbs in containers, hyacinth bulbs, hyacinth perfume, Hyacinths
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