Guar Gum What Is It

By Tom Meade Honey adds a delicious new dimension to beverages, salads, main dishes, vegetables and desserts, and it's the healthy alternative to refined sugar. Sprinkle with pecans, and bake for 45 minutes, until the filling is set.

While the leaf-footed bug family is composed of several closely related species, these insect pests all use their piercing sucking mouthparts to feed on our favorite foods, like tomatoes , a range of vegetables, nut crops, and several fruit species.

But what happens when you have that proverbial bad bunch? For example, a dozen eggs here in Northwest Florida have risen over a dollar in the last year and are expected to continue to continue to rise.

Soon sherry became a staple of British pantries and cupboards. Unlike fancy investment quality wines, for which you need to build a wine cellar, sherry should be stored upright in a cool dark place.

The next time you buy one of these perennials, you'll at least know approximately when you can expect it to expire. Have you ever planted a perennial and been disappointed when it disappeared from your garden a year or two after you planted It?

When pruning, you need to be very careful with where you cut; otherwise you might end up harming your plants.Because you are surrounded by all the greenery, you breathe air that's comparatively fresh, especially if you're in the city where smog and air...

Learn how to retain and use it in the yard and garden. Aside from the obvious benefits of saving water (and money on your water bill), reusing your greywater keeps it out of the sewer or septic system.Greywater is different from fresh water and requires...

In livestock husbandry, what we'd usually call inbreeding is termed linebreeding. Beauty, foraging, meat flavor, and tolerance for confinement, heat and cold are other characteristics that have been linebred into the breeds chicken keepers love.

This usually doesn't present a problem because unripe wonderberries are extremely bitter. Start the seed indoors in late winter, then move the plants outdoors when all danger of frost has passed in the spring.

Oriental plane tree's leaf looks strikingly like a silver maple; see it in the photo near the top of the article."My wife and I walked through Hyde Park on a cool September day and admired the great beauty of the bark and massive trunks [of the London...

To the left is a picture of the rose blooming on the day of our wedding. The rose bush itself was very healthy and received the same amount of care and attention as the others. They respond to us.

A lot of energy is placed in cleaning, packaging, labeling, cooling, traveling, and then setting up and selling. For some, I suspect—maybe even many—the answer may very well be no.

I have since learned, however, that what we thought were huckleberries were actually blueberries. Blueberries have many small, tiny, soft seeds, while huckleberries have ten large, crunchy seeds.Flowers are white to pink and urn or bell-shaped, and appear...

In complete flowers, the petals are the second whorl and are positioned inside the sepals. The variations, however, make the world of flowers infinitely interesting and keep some of us captivated for a lifetime.

Apparently, it wasn't Pudding's first rodeo; I was determined, however, that it would be her last. Can't get enough about poop? I will never know for sure. According to the interwebs (and as always, I checked three or four sources), cat poop (and dog...

It is one of the easiest herbs to grow and you can harvest its leaves all season. Thin the seedlings after they develop true leaves to give the remaining plants plenty of room. Small-leaved varieties work well as an edging for either ornamental or vegetable...

Hmmm., evaporation will cause more moisture to be carried in the atmosphere. DG writerhas compared the polar ice caps to cold deserts. I just want to know, why does it seem so much colder?

Needless to say, you shouldn't put these cuttings on your compost. Denise Corkery, senior writer at Chicago Botanic Gardens, does not recommend chemical controls such as fungicide be used as treatment for clematis wilt.

Other trees include the name "gum," even though they are not Eucalyptus trees.The sap from many Eucalyptus trees has inspired the nickname "gum tree."Eucalyptus trees that produce sap are the ones most readily called gum trees.

50,000,000 pounds of sugar have been lost through submarine sinkings. TheAccording to Geib, the most damaging evidence against the defendent (USIA) was the fact that the person in charge of the holding tank's construction had no technical or construction...

It doesn't spread or self-seed prolifically, growing to a height and spread of around 24 inches. The citrosa plant did not protect human subjects from mosquito bites more than controls, and in one field trial mosquitoes actually landed on the plant."[1]A...

The red and dark purple berries taste like medium- (not strong) flavored. Like a berry on a tree, swinging softly in the breeze. I have been thinking about experimenting with growing a mulberry tree espalier since the berries resemble typical vine fruits.My...

The one little obstacle we encountered this past week concerns our irrigation system, which is a well pump powered by solar energy. High heat indexes don't mix well with a 9-month-old, so we've stayed indoors except to get in a pool.

Many weeds appear to spring up wherever the soil is cultivated. The plant has also been used for healing wounds, diabetes, and tuberculosis. It is said to have astringent properties, reducing inflammation of the skin, and as a result has been used to...

They do prefer slightly acidic to neutral soil. The bark sheds, giving it an attractive mottled appearance in various colors.Snow Gum eucalyptus trees vary in size, sometimes growing as tall as 20 feet (6 m.) but sometimes staying small and shrub-like...

I visited the Netherlands in late March and had the privilege of spending time with head gardener Andre' Bleijk, who has been with the Keukenhof for 22 years. The thick roots of commercially grown sod can tolerate more foot traffic.

Non-meat eaters can get plenty of Vitamin A by eating apricots, sweet potatoes, mangos, pumpkin, winter squash or papayas. Teaching rice-eaters about deficits in white rice, encouraging them to grow vegetables on the perimeters of their rice fields, providing...