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15 Red Hummingbird Flowers to Add to Your Organic Garden

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Planting hummingbird flowers and turning your garden into a hummingbird habitat will bring long term enjoyment to you and a healthier habitat for your visiting hummingbirds. Here’s what you need to know to choose the best flowers for hummers, so they’ll come back year after year. Many people feed the hummingbirds that visit their […]

6 Ways to Create a Hummingbird Habitat in Your Garden To Keep Them Coming Back

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By creating a hummingbird habitat in your yard you will increase your neighborhood biodiversity, improve your organic garden, and enjoy hours of fascination watching these beautiful but tiny birds, that return year after year. Hummingbirds are a joy to watch and are an important pest eliminator for your yard. So welcoming hummingbirds to your yard […]

7 Organic Gardening Tips to Maximize Your Garden Yields Now

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These 7 organic gardening tips can make the difference between wasted garden efforts and year round meals from your garden. With a little focused effort and these organic garden tips you’ll get better garden yields this year AND in the future. There’s an old saying, “The eye of the farmer fattens the cattle.” While this […]

7 Tips for Growing Roses Organically to Create a Sustainable Eco-system

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By growing roses organically you can save money, reduce your workload, and support a sustainable eco-system that produces beautiful and fragrant roses throughout the growing season, for food, medicine, and aesthetics. When I was in the Toronto area last month I visited the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington. We were a week early to view […]

Create a Custom Bath Salts Blend with This Master Recipe

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Create customized bath salts with therapuetic benefits by using this master bath salts recipes to guide your choices. Don’t be stuck following a recipe designed for someone else’s needs. Instead use the guidance of this master recipe and the ingredients you already have in your DIY cupboard to create a customized bath experience that will […]

Can I Feed Organic Sugar to Hummingbirds?

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Is organic sugar safe to feed to hummingbirds? The internet says “NO” but science has a different opinion. Get the facts and take a deep dive into the report that this urban myth is based on. Let’s agree that what is best for hummingbirds should dictate our choice. Is organic white sugar safe to feed […]

How to Grow Giant Sunflowers For Competition and Beauty

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By planting giant sunflowers you can grow a beautiful privacy screen in one season, create a child’s play house, grow a hedge, or achieve a world record. These huge sunflower varieties grow up to a foot each week, once their roots are established. Their flowers are huge too, and can be as big as a […]

Grow Sunflower Sprouts for Tasty and Nutritious Microgreens in Just 12 Days

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Sunflower sprouts and sunflower microgreens are an easy to grow and underutilized salad green that is fun to grow at home. You can grow a crop from seed to harvest in as little as 12 to 14 days. There is no need to add additional soil amendments when growing microgreens. The nutrients required by the […]

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