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Growing Your Own Food: Why Organic is better?

Why organic is better? If you like gardening and grow your own food, is it worth the effort trying to do it organically? Modern farming offers many apparently quick and effective methods of dealing with problems caused by the lack of water, poor soil, pests and diseases. Shops are full of chemical solutions to such issues. Is it worth using traditional, old-fashioned farming and gardening methods, that may be more time-consuming and less effective? To learn more read a post at Star of Nature.

Garden Soil: Why Soil is Important and How to Restore it?

Why soil is important and what to do if it is either dying or seriously ill? Unfortunately, we don’t think of soil as a living organism and don’t appreciate its importance. As a result, we dig it without need, killing organisms that inhabit it, trample it and poison it with pesticides, herbicides and ‘fertilizers’. But soil supports our life and the life of all animals and plants. To learn more read a post at Star of nature.

How To Grow Raspberries

Growing Raspberry: a Perfect Fruit Bush for Any Garden

Raspberry is a wonderful small fruit bush, suitable for almost any garden. It is undemanding and easy to grow. There are many different varieties, including red, purple and yellow, early and late. In a larger garden, with a space for several cultivars, it is possible the have raspberries from early July and into mid autumn. To learn more about growing raspberries read a post at Star of Nature.

Growing Blackcurrant – a Star of Northern Gardens

Blackcurrant has been cultivated in Europe since the Middle Ages, first as a medicinal plant and later also as fruit. It is a beautiful and versatile shrub that has many uses in cooking, cosmetics and medicine. Growing blackcurrant is easy and enjoyable. In fact it is a perfect plant for a small garden. To learn more about cultivating and using blackcurrants, read a post at Star of Nature.

Natural Bath Essences for All Seasons

A warm bath can be wonderfully relaxing and comforting any time of the year, and it is possible to make it even more enjoyable by adding natural herbal essences. In this post I explain the benefits of having a bath, rather than a shower, and give recipes of herbal bath essences for winter and summer.

Herbal Bath Tea Recipes for Relaxation, Energy and Beauty

Baths are healing and relaxing, particularly when taken with aromatic herbs, oils and salts. A combination of warmth, scent and simply an opportunity to switch off and enjoy some quiet time have a powerful therapeutic effect. ‘Tea’ is an incredibly simple and convenient way to experience a restorative, aromatic bath. Moreover, herbal bath tea recipes I give in this post are designed to address specific cosmetic and well-being aims. To learn more read the post at Star of Nature.

Best Home-made Herbal Toners for Dry Skin

Herbal toners for dry skin are quick and easy to make at home. Preparing them yourself is the best way to ensure that they contain only pure, beneficial ingredients. Natural, home-made cosmetics are becoming increasingly popular as we learn more of the health and environmental risks of many chemicals routinely used by the beauty industry. To learn more read a post at Star of Nature

Christmas Food Traditions

Origin Of Christmas

Traditional Christmas Food

Christmas Food Traditions: Fast and Feast

Christmas food traditions evoke the Middle Ages due to the style of cooking and ceremonies associated with various dishes. The lavish use of spices and other ingredients that were valued during the Middle Ages also gives Christmas food a pre-modern character. To learn more about the origin of Christmas dishes and their medieval inspiration read a post at Star of Nature.

Growing and Eating Pansies

Pansies (Viola wittrockiana) fully deserve their popularity as decorative plants. They are easy to grow, beautiful and come in a great variety of colours, sizes and shapes. Breeders have achieved a real perfection, particularly with large-flowered varieties of pansies, that can be strikingly beautiful. To learn about the symbolism and meaning of pansies, how to grow them, and how to use them in cooking, read a post at Star of Nature.

Medieval Garden Design

Medieval Herb Garden

Medieval Homestead

Dollhouse Armoire

John William Waterhouse Paintings

Lady Lever Art Gallery

Medieval Garden

Waterhouse Paintings

Armoire Diy

Medieval Garden Plants and Layout: How to Design a Medieval Garden?

Medieval gardeners grew a wide variety of medicinal, edible and decorative plants, selected for their usefulness and beauty. They preferred simple geometric and symmetrical layouts that to them expressed order, beauty and tranquillity. They cultivated native flowers and used natural materials and mixed planting in line with the modern ecological approach. A medieval garden is therefore not difficult to design, create and maintain organically. To learn more read a post at Star of Nature.

Medieval Garden Aesthetic

Medieval Garden Illustration

Medieval Shows

Tudor Garden

Historic Gardens

Garden History: What did the Medieval Gardens Look Like?

Medieval gardens were orderly spaces where beauty coexisted with utility. Gardeners of the Middle Ages developed essential skills and learned to grow edible, medicinal and decorative plants that are still indispensable to us today. To learn who the medieval gardeners were, what was in a medieval garden, and what the gardens of this period looked like, read a post at Star of Nature.

Companion Planting for Vegetables in an Organic Garden

Companion planting for vegetables is used in organic gardening and farming to maintain the health of plants and the soil. It helps to avoid monoculture and the problems it creates. To learn more read a post at Star of Nature.

Growing Strawberries In Containers

Fall Vegetables To Plant

Strawberries In Containers

Organic Insecticide

Fall Vegetables

Organic Vegetable Garden

Growing Strawberries

Strawberry Plants

Organic garden: how to get rid of slugs without chemicals?

How to get rid of slugs naturally, without chemicals? Is it possible to get rid of slugs permanently? These are some of the questions gardeners most commonly ask. Slugs and snails are highly destructive pests, but there are ways to get rid of them organically, without the use of poisons. To learn more read a post at Star of Nature.

Slugs in the garden: a list of plants they will not eat

What to plant if you have slugs in the garden, but not the time or desire to fight them? Fortunately, there are plenty of plants that slugs do not eat and that will flourish in spite of their virtually unavoidable presence. Such plants are much more common than people assume and include many garden favourites. To learn more read a post at Star of Nature.