Making a Mini Greenhouse with Kids

The kids were desperate to get their hands into some gardening yesterday, and I was only too happy to oblige. Our youngest boy had obtained some directions for making a mini-greenhouse from a milk bottle and had been bugging me all week to help him with it. I finally...

How to Grow Vegies in Shopping Bags

Plastic shopping bags are high on the environmentalist’s list of things to remove from the public psyche. We are now banning them in shops, being told to find substitutes and some shoppers may even be rewarded for using recyclable shopping bags. But, whichever way you...
How to make a Butterfly Container Garden

How to make a Butterfly Container Garden

Creating a butterfly garden is anything but new. In fact, there are more resources available via Google on how to make a butterfly garden than the practice of creating a square foot garden. But, what if the garden you are trying to create needs to be limited to...

The Quirkiest Planter Competition

Everybody’s seen them. Maybe you have one. Or, maybe the eccentric neighbour has decorated their porch in them. Wherever they are, they could land you a worthy prize just for exposing them. I’m looking for the quirkiest planter. You know what I mean…...

Coffee and Eggshells

With Starbucks, and now other cafe’s, giving away their used coffee grounds to home gardeners what are we supposed to do with this free resource? Fortunately Sustainable Enterprises have come up with a few pointers to help us out; Sprinkle used grounds around plants...