HowTos Index
How To Make Dried Flower and Herbal Sachets
Your garden may be good enough to eat, but those wonderful fragrances can be put to use on less fattening senses. Dried flowers and herbs tucked into bags and pillows have a fragrance that will let you travel back to the glory days of your garden. Herbs, especially, hold on to their fragrance. Use you sachets to scent a draw, the clothes in the dryer or tuck one under your pillow. They make great gifts too.
How To Grow Herbs on your Windowsill
Many herb plants can be easily grown indoors, in a sunny windowsill or under lights. You can have a herb garden throughout the winter, with fresh herbs to cook with, in your kitchen. Herbs will grow in containers with minimal care.
How To Prepare Your Roses for Winter
All rose plants need some attention going into winter. Winter weather can really challenge rose bushes, particularly the hybrid teas. You will need to discourage new growth and make sure the rose plants in your garden are well water and well mulched. Look out for overwintering garden pests and diseases too.
How To Make Herbal Sugars - Using Your Fresh Herbs to Make Herb Infused Sugar
Herbal sugars can be made easily and used to flavor things like baked goods and drinks. Just as herbal butters, oils and vinegars infuse your cooking with flavors from the herb garden, herb infused sugars will make your fresh herbs go even farther.
How To Choose a Healthy Plant
When selecting plants for your garden or home, check the overall health of the whole nursery as well as the plants you are choosing. Watching for signs of insects, disease, stress and abuse can pay off big in the long run.
How To Take Cuttings of Your Favorite Plants to Give as Party Favors
Party favors have gotten out of hand lately. Gardeners can share a piece of their garden with guests and create a simple, quick and inexpensive party favor that is still personal and welcome. Give each of your guests a rooted cutting from your garden or your houseplants. Many plants root quickly and these favors can be down as close as a week in advance. Even if your guests have black thumbs, they’ll enjoy having a plant for their desk, if only for a few weeks.
How To Make Herb Flavored Vinegars
Herbal vinegars are one of the simplest concoctions to whip up and yet they lend a complex undertone to so many delicious dishes. Don’t confine your vinegar use to just salad dressing. Herbal vinegars will dress up spreads, like mayonnaise, sauces and all types of appetizers.
How To Herbal Jelly - How to Use Your Fresh Herbs to Spice Up Jellies
Herbs and fruit are a seasonal treat that can be carried into the winter months by making herbal jellies and jams. Don’t want the fuss of making your own jam? Don’t let that stop you. You can flavor store bought jams and jellies and turn them into personal statements from your garden.
How To Make Herbal Oils - Oils Flavored with Fresh Herbs
Flavored oils are wonderful to cook with, easy to make and they are always welcome as gifts. Use fresh herbs from your garden to create flavored herbal oils.
How To Garden in a Bucket - A Portable, Private Garden for Your Child
To make gardening fun and accessible to kids, you need to make it personal. This is a gardening project from my local 4H organization that you can easily do with your own little clover buds. Garden in a Bucket lets kids create a personal, private garden that they can take with them, take care of, show off and enjoy. It takes only a few minutes of effort, but the junior gardener can enjoy his or her garden all summer.
How To Spring Bulbs: How To Plant Spring Flowering Bulbs
The key to growing healthy, vibrant spring flowering bulbs is to provide them with a great growing environment. Rich well-draining soil and sunshine will reward you with ample flowers for your bulb planting efforts. It doesn't hurt to know which end is up, either. Here are some more tips for growing large, colorful spring flowering bulbs.
How To Get Your Kids to Enjoy Gardening
Playing with dirt is a natural for kids. To get your children to enjoy time in the garden, let them be active participants in their own garden.
How To Make Evergreen Sachets from the Garden
Evergreen sachets are a quick holiday craft that lets you bring the essence of the winter garden into your home. Get an instant whiff of the holidays and a reminder of outdoors with a gift from your garden.
How To Make Sense of a Fertilizer Label
How to make sense of the numbers on your plant fertilizer bag and choose the right product for your plants.