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Edible Green Plants of Winter
There are plenty of edible greens in the warm months of the year, but what is there to eat in the wild when the ground freezes and most plants are dead or dormant?
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Australian Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
With the range of green cleaners now available, it is important for consumers to compare brands to ensure that they are purchasing the best product for their needs.
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Coleus - Jewels of the Garden
Who needs flowers when you have the colorful Jewel tone Coleus growing in the garden?
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How to Grow a Community Garden
Go green and bring your neighborhood along with you by creating your own community garden. Whether you live in the city, country or suburbs, you can grow food!
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Making Liquid Manure
Spring is an excellent time to make up a batch of liquid manure from the new lush growth. Use liquid manure to as an organic fertilizer to add nutrients and trace element
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The Legend of the Poinsettia
The Poinsettia with its beautiful red flowers and shiny green leaves has become a symbol of Christmas to many people all over the world. Do you know where this flower comes from? Have you heard the touching legend about how it came to be a symbol of Christmas?
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Feng Shui Love
Suggestions from the art of Feng Shui to prepare for dating.
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Staying Healthy After a Job Promotion
New psychology research shows that workplace promotions increase mental strain and stress on the job. Here are four ways to stay healthy after advancing at work.
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Saving Plant Seeds
Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.
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Caring for Poinsettias
You wouldn't think container gardening would play a major role in the cold winter months. But what would the holidays be without the ever-popular poinsettia?
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Balinese Interior Décor
Whether you prefer contemporary or traditional design, the Balinese style is ideal if you want a rustic, Asian-inspired look in your home.
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Decorate with Nature in Mind
Many prefer to be outdoors, but some time spent indoors is unavoidable. Evoke the elements of nature when decorating indoor spaces.
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Farming snails
Similarly like leaf-cutting ants, a marine snail is capable of enhancing the availability of a fungus. It eats wounds into healthy plant parts, and then nourishes itself on the fungus that settles in the plant wounds.
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Herbalism Guide in Runes of Magic
Herbalism, or herb collecting, in Runes of Magic is one of three gathering professions in the game.
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Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My - Part One
Some very basic information about bears.
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Little Lively Chemists - I
Despite their minute size the bacteria can carry out a vast range of biochemical reactions including the master process of food and oxygen making – photosynthesis.
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The History of Mistletoe
Mistletoe is traditionally a big part of Christmas celebrations, encouraging new relationships to blossom.
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Use Rainwater and Greywater to Conserve, Save
Using methods favored by past generations, many today are saving water and money by reusing the greywater from their house and harvested rainwater for greener lawns.
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Winterize your Pond
Easy-to-follow pointers for a stress-free transition into winter.
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A Journey Down Smokey Hollow Road
Discover the natural beauty and serenity waiting for you when you make a detour from the more heavily traveled roads.
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An Easy-Care Moonlight Garden
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Bible Spices Continued
This article discusses marjorom, mint, rue, mustard, and saffron and their use in Bible days.
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Birmingham Botanical Gardens Blazes with Color
Birmingham Botanical Gardens in England's West Midlands sparkles with color, from greenhouses to the outdoors. A walk through the garden delights the senses.
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Buy Doormats Online
Banish muddy footprints and welcome visitors to your abode (and amuse them, too) with stylish and funny doormats.
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Create a Colorful Garden with Feng Shui
Use Asian principles of Feng Shui to design garden landscapes. Color combinations may consist of harmonies or contrast for a beautiful flower bed.
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Feng Shui--Part 2
Feng Shui--Part Two on the Art of Placement. It explains the main compass directions and the elements that are associated with them. A great tool for reenergizing your home.
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Five Top Tourism Spots In California
Travelers to California should visit Joshua Tree National Park, Big Sur, San Juan Capistrano, Venice Beach, and The J. Paul Getty Museum.
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Foraging New England by Tom Seymour
Get ready for the great wild food foraging available in Spring by reading this Foraging New England by Tom Seymour as preparation.
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Grass-Fed Beef Loaded with Health Benefits
Grass-fed beef and beef products are some of the healthiest animal-based products that humans can eat.
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Growing Your Own Tomatoes
Three or four tomato plants will produce a generous harvest of tasty fruit from even a small garden or patio. Follow these simple guidelines and it's easy.
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How to Build a Compost Pile
While some gardeners have made composting a demanding, technical task, the basics remain the same: Add vegetable matter, sprinkle with water, mix, wait.
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How to Identify Ferns
Certain fern species are unique and easily identified, while many look almost identical and require careful comparison of leaflets, spore cases, and other features.
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How We Get Power from the Sun
The Sun bathes the Earth in a constant flow of electromagnetic energy and there are many different ways that we can harvest that clean energy for our use.
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Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part 2
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situaiton and how the problem is solved. Part 2 - Continues listing plants that thrive in the difficult conditions of dry, clay soils.
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Leafy Greens for Garden Containers
There are many cool season lettuce and mustard vegetable seeds to grow in early spring. Leafy greens, harvested small, are easy to grow in container gardens.
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Lismore Castle in Ireland
Lismore Castle has it all - a spectacular setting, stunning gardens and sculptures by some of the best sculptors in Europe.
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Marbled godwit
Here in North America on the Pacific Coast the Godwit lives from British Columbia to California. In the central part of North America the bird inhabits the area from Saskatchewan in Canada to North Dakota in the states. On the Atlantic Coast people observe the bird from The Maritime Provinces in Canada south to Louisiana, Florida, Georgia and Guatemala in South America. People see the Godwit in New Zealand and Australia too and the bird always winters near inlets.
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Medicinal, Food Plants in Winter
Plants that stay green in winter under the snow include a handful of herbs that can be easily harvested for medicinal use; some of them are also edible.
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Microfinance
A peer lending circle may be your best bet.
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Mushrooms: An alternative food source.
Alternative food sources help to provide food with the added advantage of of easing the pressure in food production from traditional farming practices and the possibility of utilising unwanted matter such as waste.
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Off-road in Anza-Borrego State Park
The wildflowers of Anza-Borrego State Park are well-known, but remote areas of the park offer spectacular flowers long after those on the valley floor have faded.
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Ornamental Grasses
Discover 4 fabulous ornamental grasses to grow in key areas of the garden, creating striking contrasts of color and shape. Plus tips for where to plant for best effects.
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Perennials with Purple Leaves
Purple foliage creates a stunning accent in the garden, particularly when contrasted against gold or yellowish green leafed plants. Here are several great purples.
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Pet and Plants as Home Resources
Everything you care for in your household should earn its keep, right back at you. And while I cannot vouch for your spouse or children pulling their weight, your pets and plants will!

Poinsettia for Vibrant Festive Season Color
In the U.S. the Poinsettia outsells all other potted plants combined. With its flaming red color and star shaped flowers it is the ideal Christmas plant.
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Spirit Bears
The ghostly spirit bear that roams the rainforest of Western Canada has fascinated humans for centuries.
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Spring in the Basement
How to build light gardening shelves and maintain plants for the winter.
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Sugar
Sugar is so sweet.
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Tapping Maple Trees
The tradition of making pure maple syrup has not died. Learn how Native Americans discovered this natural sweetener and how syrup producers today carry on the tradition.
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