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Published on Leave a comment on 2 Herbs That Benefit Eyesight, Immune System and Digestive Health: Chives and Parsley!

Hi there, these are two Articles for this Post - one on Chives and one on Parsley in the Interest of Better Health. I trust that many of you will give Chives and Parsley a try and maybe inspired to Grow some Organically too.

The Garden Herb that Experts say Boosts Immune Health
and Protects your Vision

From Independent UK

Herbalists may Recommend them for Digestive Health,
Supporting the Immune System, and as a Mild Diuretic

Chives are a longstanding favorite in cream cheese, omelettes, scrambled eggs and spreads. But did you know the popular, slightly peppery-tasting herb comes with some major health benefits?

Just a tablespoon of the thin green vegetable – which some may mistake for the stronger-tasting, thicker green onion – helps to provide essential vitamins and minerals that strengthen eye health, and support a well-regulated gut and immune system.

Chives contain antibacterial and antiviral compounds, according to a handful of past studies published since the early 2000s.

“In modern herbalism, chives are used for their mild antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties. Herbalists may recommend them for digestive health, supporting the immune system, and as a mild diuretic,” botanist Dr.…

Published on Leave a comment on Companion Planting Made Easy: Some Perfect Pairings For A Thriving Garden

If you are a little nervous, here a few Pairings to start you off with things. Here you will find some Basic Principles of Companion Planting. Here’s how combining plants can help you harness natural pest control power and create harmony in your
Veggie Patch.

Smart garden planning is not just about what you plant – what you plant next door to it could be just as important. The ideas behind companion planting may seem a little old-fashioned, but this practice is well worth trying if you’re interested in creating a sustainable and budget-friendly edible garden.

What is companion planting?

Companion planting is pairing plants for particular purposes, such as attracting or repelling insects and enriching the soil with nutrients. In your kitchen garden, the goal is to help you produce healthier, more productive plants that are less plagued by pests and weeds, which means more delicious fruit and veggies for your efforts. Seen as a natural way to cut back on garden chemicals, it’s often used in organic and biodynamic vegetable gardens.

Nature’s own buddy system

When you use companion planting, you’re essentially building a little community where each plant has a specific job.…

Published on Leave a comment on Are Eggshells Actually Good for Your Garden? A Gardener Shares How to Use Them Right

By Alexandra Jones from The Spruce

Alexandra Jones is an avid urban grower and Master Gardener writing about houseplants, gardening, and sustainability from her home in Philadelphia. She has 10 years of gardening experience and five years of professional writing expertise.

Eggshells are a popular folk method for growing healthy, vigorous garden plants like tomatoes. But is there any proof to back up those benefits?

Here's a look at whether eggshells are good for plants, plus tips for how and when to use them effectively.

Are Eggshells Good for Plants?

Eggshells can be beneficial in the garden because they contain calcium, a necessary micronutrient for plant health. Eggshells can add calcium to garden soil when added to a compost pile or vermicomposting bin, or when added directly to the planting hole.

However, eggshells will only be beneficial for plants if your soil is already deficient in calcium. The best way to know whether your soil is deficient in calcium is to conduct a soil test.

Eggshells must be processed properly before they're used to make the calcium available for plants to take up with their roots. Simply crushing up the eggshells with your hands doesn't make much of a difference.…

Published on Leave a comment on Growing Tomatoes Successfully – You Should Read These!!!

I Planted My Tomatoes Near 1 Flower That’s Like ‘Pure Gold’
To Grow The ‘Best Ever’ Fruit

By Angela Patrone, Senior Lifestyle Reporter
From Express UK

Tomatoes are something I love to grow every year, but it can be difficult to keep them healthy. Having heard many gardeners speak about the benefits of planting tomatoes with one particular flower, I thought I'd give it a go in my garden.

Growing Marigolds With Tomatoes Helps
(Image: Angela Patrone)

Growing tomatoes is something I find very rewarding, as it results in masses of fresh, nutritious fruits at the best of times that taste better than anything you can buy in the supermarkets. A few weeks ago, I planted some tomatoes alongside basil plants in hopes of a tastier harvest. The plant has already begun to fruit impressively and shows no signs of damage.

Eager to grow some more of this delicious fruit in my garden and with June being the last chance to plant tomatoes, I headed down to my local garden centre to get my hands on another one. However, this time I decided to pick up some marigolds too, as they are known to be one of the best companion plants for tomatoes, particularly when it comes to warding off pests.…

Published on Leave a comment on 9 Flowers You Can Grow To Ward Off Bugs And Other Pests

Having bugs in and around your home, garden, patio, or yard can be frustrating. Not to mention, they're especially hard to get rid of. While powerful, inexpensive insecticides can help eliminate these nuisances, they can also introduce harmful chemicals into your living space. 

Looking for a natural way to get rid of bugs and other pesky critters? Then know that many flowers offer protection against them. According to the Malaria Journal, certain plants and flowers contain compounds that insects find toxic, resulting in an effective repellent that can keep them out of your garden or home. Ultimately, this will mean seeing fewer pests, such as mosquitos, fleas, cockroaches, flies, and more, all year long.

Purple Onion Flowers - Wards Off Bugs

So, if you want to enjoy your time indoors or outdoors without annoying insects, there are plenty of blossoms out there that may be the solution you're looking for. Whether you're a novice or someone with a green thumb, you'll be sure to find the right bug-repelling flowering plant in this comprehensive guide.

Society Garlic - Pretty Way To Keep Pests Away
Available HERE

 Alliums

According to The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, Alliums (Allium) can help you keep aphids, cabbage worms, slugs, and more out of your garden.…

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Published on 2 Comments on Did Not Believe Me About RoundUp? You Don’t Wish To – It’s Convenient? You Should Read This!

By Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Researcher 30+ Yrs

Honestly Folks, you should give yourself the chance to be better Informed. You like to be Informed about Some Things but Not RoundUp? I can tell you this: It may Spare You Health Issues OR Explain Some Health Issues. Maybe you should address Your Doubts with a Dose of Truth. You will say to yourself "Thank Goodness I Did"…………I'm trying to Help You and Your Family. Read On!

To start with, did you hear what Guardian wrote in an Article called
One Man's Suffering Exposed Monsanto's Secrets to the World? It reads:

It was a verdict heard around the world. In a stunning blow to one of the world’s largest seed and chemical companies, jurors in San Francisco have told Monsanto it must pay $289m in damages to a man dying of cancer which he claims was caused by exposure to its herbicides.

Monsanto, which became a unit of Bayer AG in June 2018, has spent decades convincing consumers, farmers, politicians and regulators to ignore mounting evidence linking its glyphosate-based herbicides to cancer and other health problems. The company has employed a range of tactics – some drawn from the same playbook used by the tobacco industry in defending the safety of cigarettes – to suppress and manipulate scientific literature, harass journalists and scientists who did not parrot the company’s propaganda, and arm-twist and collude with regulators.…

Published on Leave a comment on How To Do Companion Planting With A Handy List For Beginners

by Green Life Soil in WA

Companion planting is the careful placement of plants (especially vegetables and herbs) which have been shown to have beneficial effects on one another. Sometimes, this comes down to simple physical reasons – taller plants provide shelter from sun and wind for plants that need protection. Climbing plants can be trained up over taller plants to maximise production in small spaces. Some plants make good companions because their roots grow to different depths, so simply do not compete with each other for water and nutrients.

Plants in the legume family (eg. Peas and beans) promote growth in nearby plants with their nitrogen fixing ability – nodules on the roots enable plants to convert atmospheric nitrogen into a form used by plants. Also they tend to be deep rooted, which promotes aeration of the soil, thus benefiting their neighbours.

The shape of some plants and their flowers can visually confuse insect pests. Other plants, especially herbs, contain strong smelling substances released by their leaves. These scents can swamp odours emitted by other plants and confuse insects seeking out a target.

Still other plants emit chemicals from their roots which can act as growth stimulants for other plants, or can act negatively to retard germination of seeds.…

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Published on 2 Comments on The Unexpected Ways Free Outdoor Play Sets Your Child Up for Success

MANY PEOPLE WANT THEIR KIDS TO BE BRAINY OR SUCCESSFUL WHEN THEY GROW UP.
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WILL SHOW YOU A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WAY TO HELP YOUR KIDS THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED OR EVEN UNDISCOVERED BY MOST PARENTS IN THIS DAY and GENERATION.
I HOPE YOU GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT - IT COULD MAKE A LOT OF DIFFERENCE FOR YOUR CHILDREN. SO MANY PARENTS THESE DAYS, HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP ON HOURS OF TV ETC AND AN ABSCENCE OF NATURE. IT HAS NOT EVEN BEEN CONSIDERED BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE. IF WE DON'T HAVE THAT BACKGROUND TO PASS ON, WE NEED TO LEARN FROM THOSE WHO DO and BRING THEIR KIDS UP THAT WAY. SHALL WE GO?

From Rain Or Shine Mamma

When we think of learning, our mind immediately tends to conjure up images of classrooms, desks and text books. After all, school is the epitome of learning and an institution that most of us send our kids to in order to gain essential skills. But historically speaking, schools are a new phenomenon.

For hundreds of thousands of years, in hunter-gatherer societies, children learned the skills they needed to survive and thrive by playing and exploring on their own.…

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Published on 6 Comments on BAYER (Previously Monsanto) Lose Court Case – Charged $2.25 Billion For Damages Caused By Toxic RoundUp. About Time!!!

Curated by Janet Vargas - Independent Natural Health Researcher 30+ Yrs

The company with NO CONSCIENCE. A lot of Companies have No Conscience in Recent Times but BAYER (MONSANTO) Top the Lot of Them. Many Times they have been found to be NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS and also Big Bullies that are So Lucrative they have won Court Cases by sheer force - not to mention False Claims. Monsanto have a Nasty Recent History of Running Farmers off their Land, who of Necessity, wished to Discontinue the use of Monsanto's GMO Crops with Heaps of RoundUp (because they are deliberately Resistant to it). They have won some cases based on FALSIFIED CLAIMS and BIG MONEY. NOT THIS TIME!

The Insatiable GREED Of Bayer-Monsanto - The Greatest Deception Of All Time - You Need To Think Again Folks

Bayer (Previously Monsanto) Ordered To Pay $2.25 Billion After Jury Links Herbicide Roundup To Cancer

By Frances Vinall- Washington Post 29th Jan 2024

A jury handed down a $2.25 billion verdict, including $2 Billion in punitive damages, against Agrochemical Giant MONSANTO, according to the lawyers of a man who said he developed Cancer from using the company’s Weed Killer, ROUNDUP.…

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Published on 1 Comment on Keep Your Little Friends Happy And Healthy With A Sparkling Clean Bird Bath

IT'S EASY THIS WAY!!!

Lets Keep Their Birdbaths Clean So They Will Be Happy - Just Like We Are With Our Clean Baths:)

Safe and Natural Methods for Cleaning Your Bird Bath

We wouldn't want to take a bath in a gunky tub, so we clean it regularly. And while birds may not be quite as picky as humans when it comes to bathing, that doesn't mean a clean bird bath isn't essential for their health and well-being. Knowing how to clean a Bird Bath and what cleaners to use helps keep birds Safe and Healthy and prevents the spread of disease.

Easy Ways to Clean a Bird Bath

Whether you've got a concrete Bird Bath or any other common type, the methods we're discussing should do the trick. First, dump out any water that's in the bath. Take a moment to look over how dirty it is. If it's just a bit mucky, a quick clean with a natural cleaner like vinegar or Baking Soda may be all you need. But if you see some hardcore stains, it's time to bring out stronger cleaners.

Clean It Naturally With Water

You don't need a cleanser for the majority of bird bath cleanings, as long as you keep it relatively clean and well-maintained.…