How to be Better Prepared for Potential Home Floods
Roman Hobler Winters are getting noticeably wetter. Nowadays it is common to see on the news, the flooding that some poor wretches have to endure […]
Month: March 2014
Easy tips to create the perfect outdoor living room
(BPT) – It’s that time of year – time to dust off your patio furniture, fill your planters and set up to spend the spring outdoors. While expanding an outdoor space is a top renovation project for homeowners and renters alike, it does not have…
Baked Egg Tomato Cups
I have made these at least twice a week since I tried the recipe. Scrumstumblyumptious! That is what these Baked Egg Tomato Cups are! When my daughter was little, scrumstumblyumptious was the word she would use for any food she fell in love with. It…
Pistachios - 8 Health Benefits to go Nuts for
Pistachios: 8 Health Benefits To Go Nuts For (via Honey Colony) By Green Diva Gina Editor’s Note: Pistachios were cultivated in the Middle East in the […]
Snapper with Fresh Ginger Butter
Snapper is a wonderful saltwater fish. I had just been out on a trip and had brought home pounds of snapper fillets. Being on vacation […]
15 INCREDIBLE BREAKFASTS FOR THE WEEKEND!
15 Incredible Breakfasts for the Weekend! (via Made From Pinterest) One of my favorite family memories growing up was Sunday breakfasts with my family. Monday […]
7 Veggies That Just Love To Start Out Early
Here is list of 7 vegetables that can be started very early, most as soon as the ground can be worked. They are all very hardy or hardy and thrive in cooler weather. Don’t be afraid to set them out in the cooler weather. They really do like and can…
20 Unusual Uses For Garlic
By Stephanie Rogers, EcoSalon Chew up a raw clove of garlic and you might exhale noxious, eye-watering clouds of stink all day, but you’ll also repel mosquitoes (and vampires), increase your immunity, heal cold sores, expel parasites and maybe even…
Behind the Scenes - Making the First Leviathan
Behind the Scenes - Making the First Leviathan Thank you so much for all the support and votes that got the Leviathan into the quarter […]
6 Tips for New Vegetable Gardeners
Containers, even hanging baskets, can be used to grow vegetables. Is this the year you plan to start a vegetable garden? We hope so, because […]
Top 15 Most Beautiful Camellia Flowers
Camellia is a broadleaf woody plant native to South Eastern Asia, Bhutan, Japan and China. The name Camellia honors the Jesuit priest Georg Joseph Kamel, a Czech who contributed to the growing science of botany. Camellia flower symbolizes everlasting…
Perfect Peonies
I think I hear over and over, that Peonies are one of the most favorited flowers around. What’s not to love? Perfect colors, a romantic cupped shape, some are even fragrant! They are not that difficult to grow, but they do have some requirements that…
A Bonny Bread Featured with Irish Calligraphy Work
A Bonny Bread Featured with Irish Calligraphy Work Posted on March 12, 2014By Judy DoddsArt Gifts, Galleries, Media:Calligraphy IRISH SODA BREAD This is a recipe I enjoy preparing, […]
Container Gardening: The Best 16 Plants for Your Home Garden
All this ice and snow got you thinking about planning your springtime garden? Whether you are planting in the ground or undertaking container gardening, these 16 plants will be easy to grow. Most of them grow in a range of climate zones and will do…
Plotting Your Way to the Garden
This is the fourth in our biweekly series from Amy Pennington — urban farmer, founder of GoGo Green Garden, and author of Urban Pantry and Apartment Gardening — on how to start growing your own food, no matter how tiny your garden-to-be is. Today…
Herbal Teas to Grow and Drink
Every week, a DIY expert spares us a trip to the grocery store and shows us how to make small batches of great foods at home. This week, Margo True, editor of Sunset magazine and The Sunset Cookbook, shares with us the simplicity of home-grown herbal…
DIY Drip Irrigation System Costs Less than $10!
Selected from Blue Living Ideas. by Heather Carr If you’ve ever come home from work and found your lovely garden wilted, this DIY drip irrigation system might be just the thing for you. Best of all, it costs less than $10. There are a lot of drip…
Seed Starting 101
UPDATE FROM THE EDITORS: We were so inspired by Amy’s post this week that we decided it was high time we pulled on our Wellies and jumped into gardening, too! Check our latest Shop offer for various edible seed collections. This is the sixth in our…
One Day Backyard Projects
Most of us are really busy, and if we end up spending several weekends in the yard finishing projects, they tend to not get finished. I like simple, and fast for most of the DIY projects I do…probably because, if you ask Steve, I have an issue with…
Nevada – Sand Harbor State Park
Nevada - Sand Harbor State Park (via www.travel50stateswithkids.com) Have you ever picked a vacation destination using Pinterest? I believe that Sand Harbor State Park on […]