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How to Design Your Garden to Deter Snakes
Snakes are often helpful for their ability to keep pests like mice in check in our gardens—but you probably also don’t relish the idea of…
You Should Be Using Orange Peels in Your Garden
After you’ve finished eating or juicing an orange, your first instinct might be to throw the remnants away. Of course, what you do with your…
Why You Should Pre-Sprout Your Seeds
The satisfaction of watching your tiny shoots push out of the ground after weeks of waiting is one of the best parts of gardening—unless your…
How Much Garden You Would Need to 100% Survive On
Gardening is often pitched as a relaxing, therapeutic activity—and it is relaxing and therapeutic! But it’s also a sign of how advanced society has become…
10 of the Best Crops to Grow With Children
With gardening season upon us, every green thumb must ask themselves: What should I plant this year? And if you’re planning to involve children in…
How to Tell the Difference Between a Thanksgiving Cactus and a Christmas Cactus, and Why It Matters
Despite their festive name, Christmas cacti are great year-round houseplants, and don’t look out of place in the middle of July. They also live so…
10 Plants That Will Turn Your Backyard Into a Wildlife Sanctuary
You spend countless hours weeding, watering, pruning, and nurturing your garden into a space you enjoy; so it’s easy to forget that the rich vegetation…
A Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight in North America
In the boglands of the northwestern United States and Canada, an unassuming plant has been trapping and eating insects, totally unbeknownst to science. Today, researchers…
Tentacled beast on the loose in New York Botanical Garden
Sometimes pretty, sometimes a thing that escaped one of your nightmares, but always striking is the art of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Her extravagant works…
Wyze Will Water Your Lawn With a New Smart Sprinkler Controller
Wyze If there’s any doubt that Wyze wants to rule your smart home, both inside and out, then you can put those doubts to bed….
These Apps Will Help You Keep All of Your New Houseplants Alive
maramorosz/Shutterstock.com If you’ve started collecting houseplants this year, you’re not alone. And while it’s easy to buy plants (and stare at them fondly from your…
National Honey Bee Day: Everything you need to attract pollinators into your garden
If you’re buzzing about this species, this is how to welcome them into your outdoor space Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/house-garden/gardening/national-honey-bee-day-plants-catnip-seedbomb-bath-garden-a9668841.html Droolin’ Dog sniffed out this story and…
Why you should build a bee hotel in your garden
If you welcome wild bees to your garden, your plants will be able to reap all the benefits, writes Adrian Higgins Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bee-hotel-house-garden-wild-wasps-gardening-rewilding-a9585836.html Droolin’ Dog…
Grow Your Green Thumb with These Gardening Apps
It’s spring, and the perfect time to start your backyard gardening projects. Even if you don’t have a green thumb, these apps make it easy…
How to grow scallions in water, because we know you’re considering it
A sprinkle of fresh chopped green onion makes lots of pantry meals, from ramen to stir fry to even plain rice, feel a little fancy….
Where to order live plants to keep you company while social distancing
Look, we’re all sad — we miss our friends and family who are social distancing in different homes or different states. At this point we’ll…
Community Rallies To Defend Community Garden
The largest community garden in Baltimore is aiming to make Baltimore more sustainable and push the city toward zero-waste, but it is under threat of…
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