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A New Twist on Homemade Remedies — Plants Make Aspirin!

  • Sep 18th, 2008
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  • IPM, and now for something completely different, medicinal plants
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    • Plant people know that plants make their own food. The process of photosynthesis is how plants convert solar (light) energy into chemical energy. Within plants when water and carbon dioxide are in the presence of sunlight and cholorphyll, food, water and oxygen are created. An even simplier way of looking at this truly amazing phenomenon [...]

    Herbs in the Garden — Some Thoughts

  • Jul 29th, 2007
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  • Food, Gardening, Horticulture, Uncategorized, cooking, herbs, medicinal plants
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    • Often I am asked to include an herb garden into my landscape designs, and recently a fellow blogger told me she had started an herb garden and was interested in some ideas about gardening with herbs. So….here are some starting thoughts.
    Every garden should include herbs!
    That’s my initial reaction. I honestly don’t know if there is [...]