Horsetail goes by the botanical name Equisetum arvense. Though native to Europe, we have it all over in the area where I live, in Northern NJ, perhaps because we are in a lake community and the herb loves moist soil. When you drive out of our community, it grows heavily along the roadway beside another [...]
Over the past couple of years, our town has formed a sustainable gardening group, and have taken a plot of unused land in our Township, and turned it into something useful and beautiful. There is also a beautiful “island” of flowers in the middle of the traffic light interchange in the middle of our town [...]
Many know about hops because it is used in making beer, to the left is a hops cone, a picture that can be found on Wikipedia. Hops goes by the botanical name Humulus lupulus, and is a nervine, which means it calms and soothes the nerves. I am going to share a story that I’m [...]
Picture above from this link at Flickr Living in New Jersey during this cold time of year, as the holidays end, and we look into a couple of months of cold weather before Spring, it is fun to dream of beautiful days at the Jersey Shore. You may remember some of the posts I put [...]
Are you living in a warm part of the country or world where you are dealing with garden and household insect pests? We are in very-cold-right-now northern NJ, but even in the cold of winter, the basement of our cabin has little crickets, cave crickets, that my husband is always dealing with. So far he [...]
