Growing your own potatoes is easy, but for those with bad back, it’s literally a pain. Sure, you can grow potatoes in a raised bed which will facilitate harvest, but that still requires some digging and an initial investment. A quick trick to various potato plant box ideas that exist includes the thrifty cardboard potato planter. Can You Grow Potatoes in a Cardboard Box? Can you really grow potatoes in a cardboard box? Yes. In fact, growing potatoes in cardboard b
Unlike other owl species, like great-horned owl or barred owl, barn owls have a heavy preference for rats and mice. And while they might be adorable, they are also natural killers. Barn owls hear so well that a mouse’s heartbeat alerts them to nearby prey. Their velvety feathers allow them to approach their victims silently in total darkness, a busy time to hunt. One barn owl can cover over a mile and will eat between three and six mice each night, approximately 2,000
Nepeta cataria Catnip is a flowering perennial in the Nepeta genus. This easy-to-grow herb makes a valuable addition to the garden, with a wide range of available uses from culinary spice to therapeutic tea for indigestion, colds, and other ailments. And of course, your cats will be thrilled to have fresh catnip around! Continue reading to learn more about growing and using catnip. What Is Catnip? Hardy in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 through 9, catnip is a perennial he
It’s no secret to the regular reader that my favorite perennial is a heuchera. Disregard the fact that I have many favorite plants, and remember that heuchera (aka alumroot) is my Favorite. That’s right – with a capital “F.“ A major reason they’re my Favorite is because of how easy they are to care for over the winter. Heucheras laugh at cold winds and freezing temperatures, and they taunt every blizzard that comes their way. In my experience, their