Homemade Natural Living
News flash, chamomile tea taste nothing like the tea steeped from chamomile tea bags sold at the grocery store. It’s sad but true. If you have been buying chamomile tea bags at the grocery store (usually 10 in a pack) you have likely been sold a watered down version of the tastiest sweet tea in…
Anyone can grow their own sweet potatoes. Whether you are a seasoned gardener or a beginner, or you are simply flabbergasted at the price of sweet potatoes these days – you can grow your own sweet potatoes! In this post, I’m going to walk you through the methods I used to get sweet potato slips,…
Lemon Balm tea makes a healthy loose leaf tea because Lemon Balm includes antioxidants and vitamins that support your overall health. This makes it a good plant to consume. We pick our leaves from the small bush in our farm garden. While the lemon balm plant is only in its second year since starting it…
April is a big seed starting month for us in the Pacific north West, in Zone 8. That’s why you’ll see I titled this post with the big “April master list of seeds”. April is a big “seed starting” and “outdoor sowing” month. That gets us all ready for May, which is our “hardening off”…
This is a special month for me! Not only because I was born in the month of March, but because this is the month when we begin the majority of our seeds for the summer garden. Today, I’ll be sharing with you which seeds to start in March. With each of these “seeds to plant…
When the snow falls and the days are dreary cold, there are seeds to start in February that warm any gardeners heart. Starting seeds is how gardeners extend their season, especially those who do not have a long enough season to grow warm loving crops like tomatoes and peppers. This is the case for us…
Hear me when I tell you gardening is easy! You may think that the goal is to grow food, but there is an even greater goal. Think past the growing of vegetables and flowers and focus on your game plan for using the veggies and making flower arrangements. You can make a harvest calendar and…
When you sit down to do a garden map, planning is key. There are a few very important things to consider. Planning the map is knowing how much to plant which is the most important part for me to avoid waste. The space you have, the crops you want to grow and the elements in…
Sowing seeds in winter is a practice believed to make seeds come up earlier and hardier. The idea comes from the basis that seeds inherently knows when is the right time to germinate and sowing the seeds in a container, making a mock greenhouse, the germinating process is speeded up. It is commonly known winter…
Welcome back to the series on planning a garden! This week’s garden plan encourages you to make a calendar that makes planting easy. This is my favourite part of planning my garden because I love calendars. I love securing a date for a task and know about scheduled appointments ahead of time. This allows me…