Garden and Outdoors

Basic urban gardening tips, composting, growing herbs and other edibles.

Growing your own food and creating an insect friendly garden in your own backyard is a great way to live greener.

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6 Easy Herbs To Grow for a Bee Friendly Garden

Grow these easy kitchen herbs and create a bee friendly garden at the same time. Creating a functional garden that yields edibles and attra

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How To Grow an Avocado Seed - Step by Step Guide

Growing avocado seeds is easy once you know how, but it does require a little patience. This post will take you through the key steps you ne

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How To Plan a Plastic Free Picnic

The trouble with picnics is that they often come with a lot of pre-packaged food, or food you have prepared wrapped up in cling wrap, which

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How To Make Newspaper Seedling Pots

Newspaper is a great material for making your own seedling pots, and once grown they can be planted whole in the ground without disturbing y

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Our New Veggie Verge

We have finally got our first veggie verge set up on nature strip out the front of our house and it is brilliant. This is something we have

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10 Biodegradable Alternatives For Everyday Items

Making a swap to more compostable items in our everyday lives means less landfill and less recycling. Here are items we use everyday that ca

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25 Beeautiful Gift Ideas For Bee Lovers and Honey Addicts

If you're looking for a perfect present for a bee lover, bee keeper, or an avid honey eater, here are 25 beeautiful gifts to consider. T

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Kitchen Herb Windowsill Garden Kit - Review

For the black thumbs or green thumb challenged, this Kitchen Herb Windowsill Garden Kit is a great way to start growing your own fresh herbs

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Simple Compost Tea for the Garden

Making compost tea from kitchen food scraps is a great way to feed your garden, especially if you don't have a home compost system. This

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How To Harvest Basil Seeds

Basil is one of the easy to grow herbs AND you can collect the seeds for planting, storing or sharing. Getting herbs plastic free can be a c

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