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"Create your Home and Garden Dream!"

Your home and garden can be a beautiful environment totally unique to you. That personal rug or collage of photographs tells a story of your life, your experiences and your hopes and dreams.

Get a vision of your ideal home and hold it! It may be you already live in your perfect home but it could do with a face-lift. Get the finished picture in your mind and go for the dream...


"General"


Here are some great General Home and Garden pages. Scroll down for 'Food and Drink' and 'Healthy Living'..

For Beginners - Where to start!

You won't need to read a hundred 'for beginners' books before you get out there and make a start. In fact, you don't really have to read much more than the back of a seed packet or the information labels on the plants you bought.

Gardening For Beginners

Gardening By The Moon

Whether you read or believe in your horoscopes every day, the fact remains that the moon and planets have a remarkable effect on nature, including humans! Growing plants in tune with the moon can produce amazing results ...

Gardening By The Moon

10 Free Gardening Products!

One of the pleasurable spin-offs in organic gardening is finding alternative ways of coming up with the same, if not better, end result..... Household throwaways can be valuable to the alternate enthusiast. Here are ten recyclable ideas to make gardening a little less hard on the pocket!

10 Free Gardening Products!

10 Stunning Garden Decorations!

While you're enjoying playing games in the garden, give a thought to decorating your outside space. There are lots of fun and interesting things you can do without spending tons of money...

Garden Decorations

Cut Flowers

Grow them, nurture them and cut them... or get someone to present you with a beautiful bouquet every now and then! Find out how you can keep your blooms looking good for longer.

For full article click here: Caring for your cut stems


Garden Gifts

Garden Gifts for all your gardening friends and even those who dont know a daffodil from a rose!

For full article click here Garden Gifts


Poetry

Create a peaceful spot in the garden and take half an hour to sit in the fresh air with a notebook and pen. Absorb the environment.

For full article click here Garden Poetry


Proverbs

So many gardening proverbs, quotes and sayings relate to everyday living. Maybe you know someone who always comes up 'smelling of roses'!

For full article click here Gardening Proverbs


Gift of Flowers

Be nice to yourself and indulge in one of nature's awesome creations. It's true we don't actually NEED flowers in our daily schedules BUT since when did humans stick to what they needed!

For full article click here: Gift of Flowers


Giving Green

Put your feet up for an hour or so and create a 'natural' Christmas gift list. Okay it may be necessary to buy the new games machines for the kids, but for everyone else, giving green gifts will be very much appreciated.

For full article click here: Giving Green


Go Greener

All across the world, more and more people are going green in an effort to do less damage to the environment and use less energy. In past decades, the only thing “green” found in most backyards was the pesticide and fertilizer-laden lawn...

For full article click here: Go Greener


Home and Garden Tips

These quick and easy ideas will cut down on chore time and add a touch of flair into the household. With general supermarket survival tips and how not to cut your nails while chopping herbs.

For full article click here: Home and Garden Tips


Home Garden Party

Treat your friends and family to a completely organic home garden party - any time of year!

For full article click here Home Garden Party


Fencing

Young growth can be severely damaged by cold winds and frequent buffeting will cause a great deal of root disturbance. Although privacy and shelter can be provided by trees and shrubs, fences also have an important part to play.

For full article click here... Fencing

Garden Sheds

A garden shed should really only contain your gardening equipment and hand tools.

For full article click here Garden Sheds

Greenhouse Tips

Let your imagination fly! Apart from starting off your veggies and other plants, you can experiment with lots of different plants if you have a greenhouse. A greenhouse is one of the more expensive tools - but well worth the cost!

Greenhouse Tips


Indoor Hydroponics:

Bad weather conditions? No problem. Create perfect crops from indoor growing kits!

Indoor Hydroponics

Designer Sprouts and a Slug's Night Out:

No two plants are the same and if your tomato plants are stragglier than the ones in the picture on your seed packet, then so be it. As long as they are healthy what difference does it make how the plants look? A light-hearted look at when your garden doesn't go according to plan.

Sprouts and Slugs

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"If you need to find a reliable gardener My Hammer can help."

My Hammer UK

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With holiday seasons always looming or someone's birthday just around the corner, original home and garden gifts aren't always easy to come by.

Amazon (US) have a great range of home and garden products



And in the UK Crocus have a huge range of home and garden gifts available. Here's a small taster!

When you land on their homepage choose home and gifts and you'll find all sorts of wonderful gardening gifts for family and friends. - Gifts, tools and lots more at Crocus UK

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"Home and Garden - Food and Drink"

"Grow Your Own Veggies"

Give your 'budding gardener' friends a unique and personal gift this season...Find out more here... (it's FREE!)


Growing Herbs:

Growing herbs at home brings the whole family a little bit in touch with nature and they can benefit from the tastes and other magical qualities of everyday herbs..

For full article click here Growing Herbs


Aloe Vera:

Aloe vera has become very popular in recent years and is available in the form of ready grown plants from many garden suppliers. Plants should be kept on a sunny windowsill and kept indoors for most of the year. During warm summer months, pots can be put outside during the day. This page is an extract from Herb Gardening.

For full article click here Aloe Vera


Beansprouts:

The most non-physical form of gardening, but the most highly nutritious - beansprouts have been part of the eastern diet for years. Now the west is catching on!

For full article click here Growing Bean Sprouts


Cranberries:

Cranberries are one of the 'super-foods' of the century. Not only that, you can grow them at home! They tend to look after themselves once established and will produce an attractive ground cover as well.

For full article click here Growing Cranberries


Garden Soup Recipes

Fed up with intricate recipes and fiddling around in the kitchen? Throw a load of veggies in the pot and let them bubble on the stove until hunger pangs take over!

For full article click here Garden Soup Recipes


Healthy Eating

Work out your own healthy eating plan with this simple guide to getting going in the garden. The whys and wherefores explained..

For full article click here Healthy Eating


Mushrooms and Fungi

Mushrooms can be grown indoors, outdoors and even in a cupboard! Nutritious and tasty and on hand whenever you need them.. ( natural health foods at their best! )

For full article click here Mushrooms and Fungi


Potato Recipes

The humble potato comes into it's own. These potato recipes will overcome any desire to buy instant mashed potato ever again!

For full article click here Potato Recipes


Vegetable Recipes

Vegetable recipes make every meal a lot tastier and can even encourage the children to eat their spinach! Although vegetables are tasty, most of us in the western world have had our taste buds bombarded with all sorts of interesting flavours.....

For full article click here Vegetable Recipes

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Grow your own organic garden vegetables to make the finest meals for your family....

Thompson and Morgan are online worldwide suppliers of seeds and other products and they have some great pictures to drool over!

broad beans brussel sprouts Carrots

Chile Peppers Sweetcorn Tomatoes

Thompson and Morgan UK
Thompson and Morgan US
Garden vegetables at Thompson and Morgan Worldwide

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"Home and Garden - Healthy Living"

Outdoor Games:

All you need is a box of fat chalks and a few square metres of concrete/patio area outside, and you can play games with the kids and get healthy at the same time!

For full article click here Outdoor Games


For Health and Fitness!

If you are trying to lose weight and busy counting calories every day and stressing because you can't get to the gym, or don't want to be spending the monthly fee for the use of the gym, take heart....

Gardening For Health


Organic Gardening:

Organic was the normal way of things before chemicals and pesticides arrived to 'help' our crops along. Unfortunately there are side effects to many of the chemical products -

Organics


Grow a Healthy Diet

We all owe it to ourselves to have a healthy balanced diet that will keep our body trim and reduce the possibility of illness and disease. Vitamins and minerals are just a part of the foods we should eat on a daily basis to keep the body, mind and soul functioning to its fullest capacity.

For full article click here Vitamins



Happy Home and Garden!



More "Home and Garden" Reading

Grow Your Own Groceries: Producing your own food is not only rewarding but - in times of economic and environmental changes - increasingly a must! Nature provides everything the human body requires to thrive, and cultivating some of those natural products in your own back garden will not only produce the best food on the planet for you and your loved ones, it is also economical, environmentally friendly and more fun than shopping.



Gardening is more than a hobby; it's a way of life. Even without a garden, many plants can be grown in containers, on a balcony, and indoors. Order it now direct from the publisher... Grow Your Own Groceries

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Herb Gardening: Herbs are becoming recognised more and more as superfoods, as if we didn't know that really! 'Herb Gardening' has been beautifully put together by the publisher (Crowood Press) into a well presented book with full colour photos.



Along with growing instructions for forty different herbs, there are lots of great ideas, including culinary delights and medicinal alternatives.

You'll also find gardening advice as well as some ideas on planning a herb garden. Order it now direct from the publisher... Herb Gardening

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Grow Your Own Pharmacy: If, like me, you want to be able to eat the best food on the planet, grow your own!


Grow Your Own Pharmacy

• Clear instructions on planning, planting, growing and harvesting the fruits, vegetables and herbs required for a healthy vitamin intake.
• Recipes and menus to help incorporate the fruit and vegetables into your daily diet.

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Granny's Book Of Good Old Fashioned Common Sense is packed full of great ideas and tips for your home and garden. Granny brings traditional home-making up to date with cooking, gardening, needlecrafts and even games to play with the kids...Click on the link below to order your copy.


Granny's Book Of Good Old Fashioned Common Sense


Cooking doesn’t have to be a chore and preparing nourishing home cooked meals for the family will certainly keep them away from the goodie shelf. Gardening encourages physical exercise and a good healthy dollop of fresh air. And you can get the kids involved too.

Before the days of computer games and electronic pets, children used to have fun without rummaging about in the fridge every five minutes. Enjoy a few rainy-day games and crafts of yesteryear with today’s kids. They’ll love it and so will you! A perfect home and garden book.


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