Decorating your patio can be a wonderful way to improve your outdoor living space, but creating an attractive and practical outdoor area that suits your requirements can be difficult. Keep reading to learn about twelve typical patio decorating mistakes and offer remedies to help you prevent them. Overcrowding the Patio A frequent mistake people make …
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Beginner Vegetable Gardening from Your Deck
Vegetable gardening is a fun and rewarding pastime, and it’s simpler than you may think to start a garden despite having limited space or resources. One great option for beginners is to start a vegetable garden on your deck. You can grow various delicious vegetables outside your door with careful planning and attention. When starting …
Situations When You Should Use a Wagon
Wagons are often disregarded as helpful tools because they’ve been looked at as kid’s toys for so long. In actuality, there are a variety of different wagons that you could use to speed up your tasks and save your body a lot of aches and pains. Here are some situations where using a wagon will …
Outdoor Steel Pergola Designs for Shaded Seating In The Garden
When you think of your garden or backyard space utilization, it is natural that you think of how you can comfortably relax in it. Your garden feature in landscaping will certainly have the utility units that together with natural surroundings make it not just beautiful, but stylish too. The outfits and designs of your garden …
Garden Design in 2015 – Start planning now!
Its the start of a new year and with Christmas and the winter out of the way many are now waiting for summer. If you will be spending a lot of time in your home this year you might consider sitting outside in your garden and in which case it might be a great time …
Pruning Grapes and Fruit Trees
It’s into February now – the longest month of the year psychologically, so the shortest month numerically – and pruning the fruit trees and grape vines is the name of the game in my region. Even as we’re facing yet another nasty winter weather ‘event’, this one scheduled to dump a foot or two of …
Antioxidants vs Radiation: Lemon Balm!
Most of us who are committed to the homesteading lifestyle are committed because we perceive the value of living closer to the earth, taking responsibility for ourselves per the ‘conveniences’ of life, and care a great deal about the general health and well-being of ouselves, our families and our communities. A lot of us grow …
Mid-Winter Thoughts: A Continuum of Consciousness
Is Consciousness a Universal Aspect of Life? Many years ago, when I was harvesting peppers and tomatoes in my very first yard-garden soon after my husband got out of the navy, a friend and I got into a discussion about the then-current ‘fad’ of talking to plants (and playing them good music) on the assumption …
Killed a Rattlesnake This Morning…
Just a bit of Father’s Day excitement here on the ‘stead, where this morning Sirius the Cat was seen stalking a slithery something in the jasmine growing along the garden fence next to the gateway. Here in the highlands of the Blue Ridge – we are about 4 miles as the eagle flies from the …