Are Lentils Good For You

All around, it's uniquely useful in many ways; add to that the health benefits and well - it's SUPER LEGUME :) We use it as a creamy and healthy base for grilled salmon.This marvelous tiny legume is super nutritious, is a cover crop as it puts needed...

Sometimes, the act of caring for another living thing, even a plant, can have positive effects on people. Over at The Conversation , writer and urban horticulturist Chris Williams has rounded up a collection of studies, both qualitative and quantitative,...

Article first published in Urban Farm November/December 2011. “Urban agriculture has remarkable power on so many levels: It connects people to their food, strengthens communities, creates jobs, revitalizes blighted areas; the list goes on,” Susman...

For added aroma, add some dried lavender or other essential oils into the melted oils before you pour it into the molds. Your friends will love you for it!Beauty products are easy and fun to make with ingredients from you garden.

All are lovely foliage plants. This aralia has ruffley compound leaves on light colored "trunk." One variety has been called "parsley aralia" and it does look a bit like parsley growing on a very small tree.

Friendship Donations Network:Based in Ithaca, N.Y., this nonprofit does more than donate fresh produce to those in need; the group also ensures that edible fruits and vegetables don't end up in the landfill.

Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...

A three sided macrame hanger will be made with three sets of four cords, which is what you now have.Cut a separate length of cord about 18" long. It will take a bit of practice to make the resulting opening exactly the size that you want it, but you can...

Is your Spider plant perpetually spindly? That stem is rotting and should be removed immediately.The rest of the canes are usually fine. Some vendors caution about cheap, diseased Chinese stock, claiming that Taiwanese produced material is healthier.Once...

Holiday visitors are invited to choose a pack of seeds to take home with them.I have since seen similar trees for sale at garden centers and places where decorations are sold. Then I stick a decorative label with the name of the seeds and planting directions...

I began my Google search and this is what I found:is a summer annual, and can be grown as a cover crop. The other is purposely thinner and can be draped around your neck and even worn outdoors under the collar of a jacket.

A database of plants is another tempting app. Instead of listening to mindless music radio, I exercised my twig identification skills. Portable and versatile, my phone is now my number one management tool, in the garden as in the rest of my daily life.

Make a paste by whisking the turmeric into some warmed coconut oil. Turmeric is in the ginger family and the rhizome, aka dried root,is the usable part of the plant. Alternatively, you can mix some turmeric right into their feed, in a ratio of 0.5 percent...

Indigenous populations each had different names for this sour berry growing on long vines that seemed to help with so many illnesses. (It's kind of like visiting Hershey Park when you're in Hershey, Pennsylvania.) And there you have it, the cranberry:...

All the hummingbirds seem to require is that you keep the feeder filled, regardless of the brand or style. But they liked the Opus bottle feeder, too. They're inexpensive and so much fun! A hummingbird window feeder.

This viper is an efficient roden eater, but a potential danger to pets and people, so this is one best not to have in the garden... And king snakes also feed on rattlesnakes. Photo by Andy PAnother group of common and beneficial snakes for the garden...

Hackberry's water content begs for proper preparation to deliver the fire you deserve. Age your hackberry wood one year to get the best it has to give, Dried hackberry logs burn much better than freshly cut or unseasoned wood.

These ingredients work together to rehydrate a person after he has expended a lot of energy, usually after performing some form of athletic activity.In a lab test conducted by the Western Program at Miami University on the effects of hydration on plant...

When I got married about two years ago, I racked my brain to come up with a good party favor that would be meaningful to my husband and me, as well as be something the guests could keep for a long time to come.

Wish your loved one good health with a yellow blooming plant. Some even zip on or off at the knee for personal temperature control. Buy the biggest one there (for about a dollar a pound).

They store in cookie jars well when sealed in airtight baggies. Fennel, on the other hand, is available in many varieties and is an easy-to-grow biennial/perennial (depending on your variety) having a bulbous base and yellow, umbel flowers that reward...

The dreams and desires of the gardener are different from normal folk. We'll keep the jokes about the same old gifts just between us gardeners. But the flowers were the same, and since the flowers were the same, a gardener would appreciate the calendar...

Protect your hens' health by practicing backyard biosecurity : Don't call in a bird-owning buddy to babysit. Taking care of your birds while you're on vacation can even serve as an independent project for them.

Most commercial fertilizers contain lime.Eggshells can be added to home compost piles to add calcium and lime to the mix. In terms of quantity needed, calcium ranks as a secondary nutrient behind nitrogen and potassium in plant nutrient needs.

Do this about once every two weeks in the spring. Use a watering can to sprinkle this mixture over your tomato plants and the surrounding soil. Of cider vinegar with 1 gallon of water.

This plant is an excellent choice for all. In realty, this was an excellent choice, because the fleshy leaves contain quite a bit of moisture which makes it hard for fire to catch and burn.This plant reproduces by sending out little fleshy runners that...

Depending on the variety, nasturtium has a mounding, trailing or climbing habit. The plant bears an abundance of serrate, light-green leaves.Plants with trailing stems spill gracefully over window boxes' sides.