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Click and Grow Update: Lavender!
It's that time of year again! Trader Joe's has bunches upon bunches of fresh and dried lavender. Lavender is a fantastic edible flower with several benefits. The aroma itself is associated with relieving stress and anxiety. Lavender in skincare can help with redness and inflammation as well. So having the chance to try growing it in my Click and Grow was very exciting for me and my sister.
Catie ConsoloPublished 5 years ago in LifehackEco-Friendly Design: Green Backyard Ideas
Making your garden sustainable is incredibly important due to the fact that it reduces the amount of work that you need to invest in order to maintain it. Second, it gives you a more visually pleasing look; and last, it provides you with an area where you can grow your own food and ingredients. In the age of pesticides, GMOs, and low soil quality, this is incredibly important for any health-minded family. With that in mind, here are tops six eco-friendly designs that you need to consider.
Isla WrightPublished 5 years ago in LifehackProven Ways to Save Water in Your Garden
If you are looking for ways to save water in your garden, whether during hot or dry weather seasons, we have got you covered. Maybe you have just decided to do this on your own, maybe you aren’t doing so well financially, or there are probably restrictions within your area that are forcing you to. Whichever the case, you are doing the right thing.
Flora MayerPublished 5 years ago in LifehackTips for Summer Yard Maintenance
Summer is the perfect season to enjoy the outdoors, and spend some time in your yard. However, it can be a little challenging to keep your yard clean and beautiful after the fall season, as there surely are many fallen leaves on the lawn. If you want to get your yard ready for summer, nonetheless, you can follow these useful tips for summer yard maintenance.
EmmaWilliamsPublished 5 years ago in Lifehack6 Ways to Refresh Your Outdated Backyard Space
Your backyard is the one link you have to nature in your home. In this day and age when we’re doing everything to get closer to nature, you should cherish and nurture that link. Your backyard may be outdated, and less than fresh, but it doesn’t mean it’s lost to time forever. With some imagination, and a little determination, you can once again make this into a place of relaxation, fun, and happiness. These six ways will help you to achieve that.
Emily WilsonPublished 5 years ago in Lifehack4 Proactive Ways to Keep an Eye on Your Garden
Gardens need attention to grow. Plants need to be watered, weeds need to be pulled, and small issues must continually be attended to. A well-tended garden is full of bright colors and energetic plants; but to get to this point, you need to put in a little extra effort.
8 Home Garden Plants You May Not Have Considered Cultivating
Your garden is an opportunity to do more than grow the same flowers and herbs every year. It’s a chance to experience other parts of the world or new and interesting flavors in your home cooking. Shake up your aesthetics and give your green thumb a challenge by planting some of these oddities from around the world.
5 Steps to Lay Down Sod
While laying sod may sound like a huge undertaking, there is no better way to have a lush, beautiful, well-established, green lawn within just a few weeks. Waiting for new grass seed to grow may feel like waiting for paint to dry, but sod provides instant gratification and allows you to enjoy your new lawn in just a short matter of time. Following these five simple steps will get you off to a great start as you lay sod for your new lawn.
Kym PreslarPublished 5 years ago in LifehackHow to Design the Perfect Family-Friendly Outdoor Space
Many things need to be taken into account, and you’ll probably want to talk with your family about all the things you’d like to include in your list of priorities. Read on if you want to learn more about designing the perfect family-friendly outdoor space.
Isla WrightPublished 5 years ago in LifehackThe Challenges of Weed Management
Poisoning The use of herbicides has proven a success for many years because they can kill weeds effectively. However, herbicides can also damage insects, harm people’s health and kill native plants. In short, they can lead to poisoning.
Gracie EvansPublished 5 years ago in LifehackDIY Landscaping Ideas on a Budget
However, it requires much planning, thought, research, and execution—not to mention the time, money, and effort. But who says landscaping will break the bank? While beautiful landscaping isn’t always cheap, its upfront cost can be affordable. In the following, a local landscaping company shares DIY landscaping idea on a budget.
Gracie EvansPublished 5 years ago in LifehackEveryone Should Compost
Over the past few years, composting in Oregon has become more and more normal and yet, so many people still do not compost, even me sometimes. The benefits of composting provide so much to our world, including more fertilization for our organically grown food and better use of our food waste. By not composting, our environment is affected by not giving our soil, which is used to grow our organic foods, the nutrients it needs to prosper these seeds. For us, individually, composting helps to bring us those organic foods as well as helping us to not waste food, but reuse it in a good way. One of the major problems I’ve heard about when people have said they do not compost is because “it is an inconvenience.” Composting does take a few extra seconds to walk over to the compost bin and dump the uneaten food into it, but it doesn’t take that long. Now a few seconds adding up can be a while but I believe it is worth it for the benefits that composting brings to the environment and to ourselves, and our community is worth the extra few seconds. But for those people who believe they cannot waste those few seconds a few times a day, we’ll take it slow.
Avery EldonPublished 5 years ago in Lifehack