Mother Earth's Garden

I’ve had a lucky bamboo plant for about two years. When I first purchased the plant a couple years ago, it was just a couple short stubby stems. Its grown about a foot per year, and it’s now about two feet tall. I’ve never transplanted it from its original container.
Lucky Bamboo is actually in the lily family and is not bamboo at all. The plant is very easy to grow and maintain. It grows in a container with decorative rocks and water. I use distilled, or bottled water. It’s not fussy, I keep it on my cookbook stand in …read more

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I showed you my before photo on Sunday, now here’s the after. I finally sorted through my seed “collection” and threw out anything not labeled, or more than a couple years old.
After the seeds were sorted I put them in a plastic container to keep the moisture out. I was going to label them alphabetically, but decided to label them by type instead. I made a label for flowers, herbs, vegetables, fruits, tomatoes, and ornamentals. I do better at keeping things organized if my system is simple.
My largest section was the ornamentals. I love novelty plants, and plants I can …read more

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As promised here is the second part of the best of Mother Earth’s garden. I tried to pick the posts I would most want to read if I was just visiting the blog. I also looked at posts that are still receiving search traffic, and posts popular with comments.
I hope you enjoy the results for July through December.
July
Aloe Plant Basics
Wind Power
August
Natalie Portman Helps Save The Planet
Keeping Snails and Slugs Out of Your Garden
September
50 Vegetable Recipes to Keep Warm This Season
Mother Earth’s Garden’s 50 Best Trees
October
Getting Rid Of Lady Bugs
Preparing For Winter Tip # 1
November
Live Christmas Tree Care
Bird Seed Ornaments
December
Christmas At …read more

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Attracting birds to your garden is not too difficult. If you have a variety of plants in your garden you are probably well on your way to creating a habitat suitable for the many birds who live in your area.
There are three things you need to nurture the birds living in your garden. You will need a regular source of food, shelter from the weather, and a water source the birds can depend on. There is one thing you do not need if you want birds to thrive in your garden, and that’s chemical sprays, or pesticides.
When you’re deciding what …read more

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I haven’t been at Mother Earth’s Garden for all of 2007, but I have taken a look at most of the posts made this year. I just wanted to post a summary of some of the more popular posts from the last twelve months.
I picked one or 2 posts from each month, based on reader comments, and posts I enjoyed. Today I’ll do January through June, and tomorrow I’ll finish out the best of Mother Earth’s Garden 2007.
January
Uses for Pantyhose
What to do With Zucchini
February
Cheap Way To Do Trellis
Shredding Paper for Compost
March
Hungry Birds
Where’s the Beef… I Mean Fruit?
April
Uses For Vinegar In …read more

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Merry Christmas from Mother Earth’s Garden. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas, and a wonderful holiday!

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We just passed the winter solstice. The one day of the year with the longest night, and shortest day. I think this is a cause for celebration.
The winter solstice means the days will now begin getting longer. As the days get longer, I get closer to being in my garden again.
As soon as the new year is here I start preparing for the new gardening season.
It all begins when the seed catalogs start arriving in the mail. I start going through them and picking out what I may want in my garden. Of course I pick way too many things, …read more

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This is my seed box. It would probably make Julie over at DeclutterIt shake her head. I think I have seeds in there from the last 10 years.
I have seeds I was given, seeds I saved from my garden, seeds I swapped with others, and seeds I’ve purchased all thrown in that cardboard box.

My mission this week is to go through all these seeds, throw out the older seeds, and organize them alphabetically in an air tight plastic container.
If I don’t do this I will not allow myself to purchase any new seeds this year. I’ll post an after …read more

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I found out today I’m a total garden geek (OK, so I already knew that, or at least I knew I was a geek). May Dreams Garden has posted a little test to see if your a garden geek (the Christmas edition).
I took the test, and had to answer yes to several questions proving my gardening geekiness yet again.
Yes, over half my ornaments are garden related. Yes, I love to shop for my Christmas gifts at the local garden center (but I’m glad that most people don’t think of it). I answered yes to several other questions too. Yes, I …read more

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I love to wrap my packages in garden or nature themed or inspired wrapping paper when I can find it. I’ve also been known to use a brown paper bag and decorate it with rubber stamps, or leaf rubbings.
I’m always on the lookout for nature related gift tags to put on my packages. Sometimes I make my own, but here are a few links to some gift tags I thought were really cute.
Hope you enjoy these if you have any last minute gifts to wrap.
Land O’Lakes has gift tags with From the Kitchen Of, perfect for those gifts that originally …read more

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