For herb gardens to thrive, herbs need to be planted next to others they get along with. Companion planting helps them bring out the best in each other. If your homegrown herbs are fizzling failures, the problem might their friend group. You think I’m joking. Turns out, and this was news to me, herbs are…
Gardening is one of the true simple pleasures in life: There’s nothing quite like getting outside, digging into the soil and tending to your plants. But as enjoyable as the act of gardening is, doing so in the wrong footwear can easily add an element of frustration when you’re left to deal with filthy feet,…
Your Friday headlines, July 21, 2023 Your Friday headlines, July 21, 2023 01:34 NORTH TEXAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – A flowering vine has many uses. Build an arbor or trellis and you have green shade. Crowded out of bed space? Go up with a vine. Flowering vines are the gold standard. There are only a handful of…
pool sun lounger umbrella You might have seen the headlines warning about the 3-hour gardening rule and wondered if it can really be that dangerous to get green fingered between the hours of 11 am and 2 pm. Forcing you to consider parking all your backyard ideas for the foreseeable future. As an unprecedented heatwave…
Gardening is widely regarded as a moderate to strenuous form of exercise. All that bending, lifting, digging and hauling burns calories and builds muscle. But it can also strain backs and leave even the fittest among us aching the next day. And when we’re less fit, or have arthritis, a limited range of motion or…
A thriving British family business that makes hand-made gardening products has been taken to court by international fashion giant Louis Vuitton in a trademark spat over the company’s use of the initials “L V.” The Norfolk-based company, L V Bespoke, was started by couple Lawrence and Victoria Osborne after their construction business was shut down during…
Making its debut this year is Luminary Sunset Coral tall garden phlox. I grew it last year as part of Proven Winners’ garden writer trial program and fell madly in love with it. The color is electrifying in the garden — so thrilling in fact, that I just had to add more plants this year….
You spell potato, Dan Quayle spells it P-O-T-A-T-O-E. Some of you may recall the Vice President’s 1992 gaffe making a 6th-grader misspell “Potato.” In the VP’s defense, however, he was using an incorrect flash card prepared by a teacher. Quayle later wrote in his memoirs, “I can’t overstate how discouraging and exasperating the whole event…
