Vegetarian and vegan diets have risen in popularity in recent years, but the looming question remains – how do meat-free eaters get enough protein?Fortunately, a variety of plant-based protein sources are readily avail
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Companion planting is a clever hack to keep pesky pests at bay while attracting pollinators for better fruit and flower production. Read on to know about the best Flowering Plants You Should Plant in a Vegetable Garden!
Planting veggies and flowers in the same bed is an age-old technique to boost a healthy harvest by attracting beneficial insects, pollinators, and native bees while keeping the common pests away from your herbs and vegetables. Besides that, growing flowers in a vegetable garden can make it look more attractive, and you can also use some of them as a trap crop!
Best Companion Vegetables: Tomatoes, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Squash, Strawberries
With edible flowers and leaves that taste somewhat like cucumber, borage is a herbaceous flowering plant, which is great for attracting bees. It also reseeds itself! And the best part–it helps in repelling tomato and cabbage worms by inviting their predator insects.
Best Companion Vegetables: Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Peas, Carrots, Asparagus, Spring salad
The brilliant orange flowers repel tomato hornworms and asparagus beetles. Pot Marigold is also a great trap crop and you can grow it on the other side of the garden.
Best Companion Vegetables: Cabbage, Broccoli, Cauliflower
Clover is a nitrogen-fixing flowering plant, which can also be good green manure. It helps to maintain fertility in the vegetable garden and attracts beneficial pollinators.
Best Companion Vegetables: Tomatoes, Beets, Cucumbers, Gourds, Herbs
If you want to attract Green Lacewings, which keep pesky aphids, scale, and thrips at bay, then pick a bright orange, yellow or white variety of cosmos.
Best Companion Vegetables: Tomatoes, Potatoes, Cauliflower, Beans
Zinnia flowers attract bees, hummingbirds, and other
Vegetarian and vegan diets have risen in popularity in recent years, but the looming question remains – how do meat-free eaters get enough protein?Fortunately, a variety of plant-based protein sources are readily avail
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It is always best to grow some veggies in your container garden instead of depending on the supplements that we buy from the counter to give a boost to our immune system. Follow our guide to know everything about How to Grow a Vitamin C Vegetable Garden in Containers.
Whether you're aware of it or not, there are almost certainly a few items in your house that you could be repurposing and making better use of. Not only is repurposing (like recycling) eco-friendly and good for the environment, but it’ll save you money in the long run. Here are eight common items in your house you should always repurpose.
Hens and chicks plants make great low-maintenance options for dry, sunny gardens. And there are so many interesting cultivars available in a range of hues, from chocolate brown to green to bright orange and yellow. The common name may be confusing until you grow them yourself and realize it makes sense. One main rosette (mama hen) will eventually produce several offsets or babies (the chicks!). Though I’ve never heard them referred to by houseleeks, their other common name, the Latin name you’ll see on plant tags for these popular succulents is Sempervivum. They are members of the stonecrop family (Crassulaceae).
The season of late sunsets, swims in the sea and garden parties, summer is a joyous time, full of late sunsets, refreshing swims in the sea, blue skies and balmy weather. Also attendant to these warmer months are the myriad flowers on display no matter where you go: there are sweet-smelling peonies in Tesco, hydrangeas flowering on front lawns and ruby red zinnias sprouting in every park and field. To make the most of the the season's floral bounty, we've rounded up five simple flower arrangements perfect for a summer bouquet from the House & Garden archive.
Are you a gardening enthusiast who always looks fortrees and shrubs with pink flowers? Then, this list of Pink Flower Names is undoubtedly going to help you pick some of the best ones for your garden!
We may not think much about the trees outside our homes, but if we heed the words of FDR, who famously said, “Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people,” it’s time we should. After all, urban forests—the ecosystems that make up our communities, including the trees planted on our residential properties, in parks, and along streets—are vital to our health and the health of the environment.
It’s a kitchen mishap many home cooks experience: You’re preparing your vegetables for a delicious homemade dinner, and during the slicing and dicing process, they never want to stay in one place. Thankfully, there’s a hack that ensures you won’t have to deal with this annoyance ever again: stabilizing your cutting board with a kitchen towel. Because you likely already have one in your kitchen, it’s extremely easy to make into a regular habit. Here’s how it works.
If you have a knife block, it’s probably something you use every time you cook. If you’re more of a take-out person, at the very least you see the decorative-yet-functional kitchen accessory on the countertop and don’t give it a second thought—but maybe you should. It turns out, those tiny little slots are likely harboring bacteria, which then goes into your food each time you slice a tomato or chop an onion.
Part of a garden editor’s job is to always be on the lookout for new garden trends, and when not one, but four friends tell me they’re putting in bocce ball, my meter goes bing! “I love my bocce ball court,” says Julian Cautherley, a documentary film producer in Los Angeles (who also happens to be my daughter’s dad). “I put it in last fall, and it’s become the social center of my garden. Guests are just drawn to it—and it wasn’t expensive to put in, either.”