Living Rural

Home & Garden Channel Posts

• Get your composting on
  Composting is the best way to make your own top soil and to add fertilizer to your own garden or flowerbed as well. You can make compost in as little as ten minutes a week. With The Earth [...]
• Make that lawn greener
  When it comes to keeping a green lawn, it really is easier than you might think. If you mow once a week and allow the cutting to stay in the lawn then it will help mulch the soil as well as provide [...]
• Sharpen those garden tools throughout the season
  With the recent talk of weeding the best thing to have on hand is a great set of tools to use for the job, but the tools can't do what they were made to do if they aren't sharpened properly and [...]
• Proper weeding tools to help get weeding under control this season
  As with the weeding post below, there are so many different ways to get weeds under control. With that, comes the proper tools in order to conquer the weeding mess that you lawn may be suffering [...]
• Getting a handle on those weeds
  This is the time of year that mowing every week seems to be the only answer and as you mow you notice more and more weeds in a natural lawn than were there the previous year. Not only is mowing a [...]
• Mow for a better planet
  We all are guilty of it, mowing the grass or lawn with a gas-powered mower or even one that is powered by electricity with an extension cord ran across the yard as we mow. The only harm in mowing [...]
• Gardening information on Rosemary
  Rosemary comes in a wide-range of varieties such as the 'Tuscan Blue', 'Barbecue', 'Miss Jessup's Upright' work best for cooking with, while 'Taylor's Blue', 'Herb Cottage', 'Joyce DeBaggio' [...]
• Get bigger, better showy flowers from House of Wesley
  House of Wesley is based in Bloomington, IL and offers the best variety in blooming flowers and show-off plants. From their 3-in-1 Angel Trumpet that grows up to 8 feet tall to their Weeping trees [...]
• Having and keeping a worm friendly habitat for less
  When we compost we create a great soil product that cant be used for plants and flowerbeds and even on the garden as well. Keeping the compost soil is rather easy, even if you don't have the space. [...]
• The weeds are coming, the weeds are coming
  Tis the season to be pulling weeds. That's right, its summer and that means your lawn, and your garden and your flowerbed will be threatened with the dreaded weeds. Of course, many store sell weed [...]