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Green fruits can have a range of flavors, from sweet and juicy to tart and sour, and are rich in nutrients such as fiber, vitamin C, and antioxidants. Here are the Best Green Fruits with Pictures so you can eat and grow a variety of green delicacies.

Green is officially the new black, and pistachio green is the latest fresh shade to win over the internet (and our hearts). This playful hue fits right in with the increasing popularity of other pastel shades in home decor including lavender, light pink, light yellow, and more. 

To help you grow more spider plants, we have all the tips and tricks on How to Get More Spider Plant Babies in easy ways!

Growing tea at home can be rewarding and fun. The best part is, you can also grow it in your balcony or patio! There’s nothing like watching a tea plant grow and sipping a piping hot tea made from the homegrown, organic tea leaves! Here’s everything about Growing Tea Leaves at Home!

Spring is a busy time for gardeners, with seeds to be sown, digging and planting to be done, and the first weeds making an appearance. Green manures may not be the first things that you think of to sow, but there are many green manures that are ideal for spring sowing and bring many benefits to your garden.

I’m not a politician. I’m not a diplomat. I’m not an expert on foreign policy. It’s hard to watch what’s happening in Gaza and the West Bank with any equanimity; over 1300 Palestinians have been killed so far, including 315 children and and 166 women.

It is one of the big ironies of gardening that the pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers we use to keep our lawns green make them one of the least ‘green’ areas of the garden. Many gardeners put a lot of effort into maintaining their lawns, and this diligence can be a real asset if you want to go green, because it requires a fair amount of work to keep your lawn in top-notch condition using organic methods. The good news is that a more relaxed approach rewards you with a beautiful, wildlife-friendly lawn.

Did you sleep well last night? You would not have felt so cosy if your mattress had been infested with bed bugs (Cimex lectularius), an ancient pest that is making a comeback in the modern world, complete with pesticide resistence. Looking for a new solution to this age-old problem, scientists from the Universities of California and Kentucky took their inspiration from reports written in the first half of the twentieth century (sadly not available online) that describe the use of bean leaves (in Eastern Europe) to trap bed bugs so that they can then be destroyed.

At the beginning of the month I did a series of posts for National Gardening Week, exploring some of the early spring harvests from the garden. The season has moved on since then, and as the asparagus plants are still young I have stopped harvesting them to let them grow. The purple sprouting broccoli harvest was also coming to a natural end, and so I removed the plants to put in a second bed of potatoes, and to use one bed as a temporary space for hardening off my summer squash, sweet peppers, sweetcorn and new PSB plants.

During Lockdown I have done some sprouting – growing corn shoots, beansprouts, wheatgrass and pea shoots on the windowsill to use as salad and stir fry ingredients. We didn’t really rate the corn shoots and wheatgrass (and the leftover seeds are destined to go through the mill!), but the beansprouts and pea shoots are old favourites we sprout from time to time. The benefits of sprouts are that you get a large amount of nutrition from a small space, in a small amount of time.

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Twenty-six years after The Private Life of Plants, the BBC and Sir David Attenborough have finally produced another TV series about the plants that shape our world.