garden

Excellent reasons to choose a solar powered garden fountain over the standard non-solar powered one. Some of the reasons mentioned are not obvious at all.

This article gives descriptions and uses of common garden plants in medical situations to cure a large list of illnesses and problems that a lot of people face daily.  Did you know Stinging Nettle can cure chicken pox?

How to Boil a Frog's FrogBlog takes us back to the 1940's for a comedic lesson in how we can change our lives now and actually enjoy it.

Quinoa is one of the best foods we can consume, in and of itself it carries more vitamins and proteins than any other staple food.

The newest museum in Madrid, CaixaForum, got a vertical garden on one of the exterior walls. Designed by Swiss architects Herzog & Meuron, there are 15,000 plants from more than 250 different species

There is a mystique surrounding these beautiful Japanese rock gardens, aka Zen gardens, that originated in the Japanese culture hundreds of years ago.

Food doesn’t get much more local than this, the AeroGarden lets you grow fresh produce on your kitchen counter in no time flat. I was able to harvest local, pesticide-free lettuce after about a month.

There are actually many things around the house that can be used to get seedlings started and it makes use of garbage you have around the house, effectively recycling things to give them another use.

Building on the success of the locavore movement’s 100 mile diet, a family operated homesteading project that manages to grow an incredible 6000 pounds of food on a tenth of an acre a year is upping the ante by launching a new challenge - the 100 foot diet. The aim is to give new life to the concept of Victory gardens that provided so much food and were so common in many countries during the war years.

This is an amazing video about a family in California that uses 90% of there urban backyard to grow all the food they need to survive, and enhancing a sustainable lifestyle.

We use about five million tonnes of rock salt each year, most of which ends up in our lakes and rivers. There are a variety of synthetic de-icers, some more eco-friendly than others.

Great list of eco-pretty, i.e. eco-friendly and pretty, holiday gifts for women. Guys, listen up! We all know finding gifts for anyone can be enough of a challenge on its own, but finding gifts that are eco-friendly and pretty enough for a discerning gal?

The Green Suburbanite tells how he has found satisfaction working with ecological garden design in a sustainable house project. From native plants to carbon capture rain gardens he sees a new lawn and garden evolving.

Great looking product. Biodegradable pots, dinnerware and other products made from compressed plant fibre - mostly bamboo and rice husks. Low carbon manufactured products which start to naturally breakdown in up to 6 months.

Not only are these pots environmentally friendly, but they look fantastic and i would not mind having these not only in the garden, but also on display in the home.

With water restrictions and drought really starting to make an impact in many parts of the world, the use of polymer crystals that have the ability to absorb many times their own weight in water will be of interest to many gardeners as a means of conserving the precious liquid.