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Tips for growing a biodiverse garden that supports your local ecosystem. Ideas include growing native plants to support wildlife including pollinators, and best practices to protect soil and water. Butterflies and bees are just the beginning.
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How to Make Leaf Mold (Free Organic Soil Amendment) | Empress of Dirt
How to Make Leaf Mold (Free Organic Soil Amendment) Boost the health and fertility of your garden soil by making your own leaf mold. Leaf mold is a valuable organic soil amendment that adds nutrients, improves soil structure, and enhances moisture retention. It is also an eco-friendly way to reuse fallen leaves from your yard.
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How To Welcome Dragonflies To Your Garden
Want to attract dragonflies to your garden? It’s all about water, plants, and animals. You’ll need a pond with aquatic plants and diverse natural habitat to support native wildlife including pollinators like bees and butterflies.
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Pumpkin Trellis
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How to Grow a Pollinator-Friendly Front Garden Without Freaking Out Your Neighbors
Ready to switch from grass lawn to something more pollinator-friendly and sustainable in your front yard? These tips will help you navigate disapproving neighbors, bylaws, and create a natural habitat that—we hope—everyone can live with—neighbors, bees, and butterflies included.
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The Problem with Diatomaceous Earth as a Pesticide | Empress of Dirt
While diatomaceous earth (DE) is frequently recommended as pesticide, there are problems. It’s non-selective (can’t tell pollinators from pests), ineffective when wet, and the fine particles harm mammals.
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60 Plants Butterflies Must Have to Survive | Empress of Dirt
We know it’s important to provide flowers that attract butterflies, but there’s another important element that is often overlooked: the baby nursery. Without the specific plant species needed, called larval host plants, butterflies have nowhere to lay their eggs. See what you can grow to support their survival.
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How to Replace Lawn With Wildflower Seed Mix
Whether you want to reduce your grass lawn or replace it, there are lots of options for alternative eco-lawns including wildflowers, clovers, and fescue grass seed mixes. The recommended seed mixes are suited to hardiness zones 3 to 9 in Canada and the United States.
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20 Spring Bulbs For Pollinators
When it comes to helping pollinators in spring, not all flowering bulbs provide the nectar bees and other insects need. Find out which early spring flowers provide nourishment for emerging pollinators.
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Want Lots of Pollinators? Grow a Diverse Selection of Plants
How can we attract a variety of pollinators to our gardens? Plant diversely. Each type of pollinator has unique needs that certain plants provide. Kim Eierman, author of The Pollinator Victory Garden, shows us which traits to look for in our plant selections to encourage greater biodiversity.
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20 Native Plants You Can Grow From Cuttings — Empress of Dirt
This plant list shares native plant species from the Southern Great Lakes Region in Canada and the United States that can be propagated by stem cuttings.
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Candle Science
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Do Oils, Candles, and Certain Plants Keep Mosquitoes Away?
There are so many claims made about various plants and essential oils that can repel mosquitoes and prevent bites that we decided to see what the research says. After all, if you can plant a few things in your garden or light some candles to keep from getting eaten alive, why not?
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Gardening for All the Pollinators
In recent years we have seen a greater awareness of the importance of pollinators like birds, butterflies, and bees. But what about all the other pollinators that form our ecosystems? Find out what we’re overlooking with this selection from The Pollinator Victory Garden by Kim Eierman.
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Grow New Plants from Cuttings All Year-Round
You can grow new plants by propagating perennial shrubs and vines year-round from softwood, semi-ripe, and hardwood cuttings. Our calendar lists optimum timing for a variety of common plants.
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Why Vinegar is Not a Good Solution For Weeds
If you have ever tried household vinegar as a weed killer only to find the plant eventually grows back, this explains why. Commonly suggested as a “chemical-free”, “natural” alternative to commercial herbicides, there are reasons why it is not recommended.
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24 Practical Garden Hacks for Thrifty Gardeners — Empress of Dirt
Sometimes the solution to your garden problem is right in your kitchen drawer! Check out these simple yet effective solutions to common garden problems. They’re good for the earth and save money.
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How To Use Fall Leaves To Improve Your Garden
Leave the leaves! There are so many beneficial uses including mulching garden beds, insulating plants from damaging winter conditions, creating nutritious compost, and providing essential food and habitat for living things.