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Honeysuckle Magical Uses
Deer and other wild animals use honeysuckle to protect them, as the scent of the bush helps to mask their scents and the honeysuckle provides food. Honeysuckle extract also may be developed as a natural UV-absorbing agent applied to wool finishing, according...
California
Santa Monica
Mesquite Tree Uses – What Can Mesquite Be Used For
This mesquite herbal soap can still be found today for “macho” hair in parts of Mexico. In fact, coyotes almost exclusively survive on mesquite pods during the lean winter months.
Ohio
Willoughby
Horticultural Fleece Uses – Learn How To Use Garden Fleece
Use stakes or rocks to hold it down so your plants get adequate protection. You can also cover and protect your autumn crops, like tomatoes, when early frosts are possible.In some climates, fleece can be used to cover sensitive plants for the entire winter,...
Ohio
Willoughby
Uses For Goat Manure – Using Goat Manure For Fertilizer
Working in equal parts of goat manure, sand, and straw to spring beds is another option, adding more or less manure throughout the season depending on the plants grown.If desired, you can add your goat manure fertilizer to the garden in the fall and allow...
Ohio
Willoughby
Traveling with Livestock
If they're really tame and you're sure they won't panic, haul them loose but with a dog-type barrier screen in place to keep them out of the front seat. « More Mondays with Martok » Tags livestock carriers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Using safe gardening practices
Here are illustrations of what each moss looks like.that grows on top of a sphagnum bog. Peat having a rather unique cell structure that enables it to aerate plant roots by loosening heavy clay soils; add boy to sand soil; and save water by absorbing...
California
El Segundo
Uses for Russian Sage
Though the leaves of the Russian sage plant are slightly toxic and you should not eat them, the plant's flowers are edible and have a peppery flavor. You can also dry complete stalks of the Russian sage plant for use in dried flower arrangements.Cultivars...
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Lilac Plants
These fragrant plants feature heart-shaped leaves and come in several shades, including light violet, dark violet, dark purple, red violet, pink, blue, white and yellow.Lilacs have compelling shapes and colors, and many people enjoy using them in a decorative...
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Palm Leaves
Dwarf palm leaf fibers are commonly placed within furniture as mattress or cushion stuffing.Palm leaves of every species have been used as the roofing and partition material of huts.
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Ash Trees
They are white ash (Fraxinus americana) and green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), both of which are hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 9a. Under these conditions, it reaches 60 to 80 feet tall.
California
Santa Monica
Harvesting and Using Elderberries
(Editor's Note: This article was originally published on August 19, 2007. We'd then head home where Mom would make jelly and jam, or simply wash and freeze our harvest We'd spend the day filling our buckets, and our stomachs with wonderful sweet goodness.
California
El Segundo
Uses for Hedge Apples
It is subject to relatively little shrinkage compared to other wood, making it a good choice for fence posts and building nailless structures. The tight, swirling grain of the wood is also quite decorative when used for furniture and gunstocks.
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Banana Leaves
Bananas are a sweet treat filled with potassium and vitamin C, but the fruit is not the only useful part of the banana plant. The Department of Horticulture at Purdue University also asserts that banana leaves are effective for preventing the growth of...
California
Santa Monica
Mango Tree & Its Uses
The fruit is covered in a thick, leathery skin, and its juicy inner flesh is yellow or orange when ripe. The fragrant flesh surrounds a single, large, flat seed.The sweet flesh of the mango tree makes it a desirable fruit crop for human consumption, and...
California
Santa Monica
Use Herbs You Grow
Other Herb Treats Soaking in an herbal bath is another delightful way to use the herbs you grow. Store the mixture for several months in a cool, dark place. So, to relax the afternoon away with a fresh cup of chamomile tea, you need to collect several...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Useful (But Ugly?) Trellises
Without the trellises the garden looks a bit more sophisticated and less rustic, but the trellises are just so useful. I always wish I had more space. I have about 300 square feet of cultivatable surface in my garden, which is composed of more than a...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Using All Workshop Space
Scrap-wood “stops” at the end of the panel would allow it to swing down but not off the bar. For my retainer, I mounted a 1/2-inch copper pipe, left over from another project, about 2 inches from the point where the rafters met the wall's top plate.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Uses for Apple Trees
A handful of smoking methods are popular, but the easiest is probably in a home smoker Apple-wood-smoked bacon (cold-smoked) is probably the most popular meat used with apple trees.Apples provide a surprisingly large number of health or medicinal benefits,...
California
Santa Monica
Uses for Lanzones Peel
When dried, the fruit peels have medicinal and practical uses.Smoke from burning lanzones rinds repels mosquitoes.Lanzones peels can be used as natural mosquito repellents, according to the Purdue University website.
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Lotus Flowers
The flowers are dried and used as seasoning. It is an easy growing flower that spreads quickly and has many uses.All parts of the lotus flower plant are edible. The leaves are beneficial to the stomach and can help improve circulation.
California
Santa Monica
Grow & Use Sweet Annie
Start with just a few seeds your first year; the plants grow quite large—up to 5 feet tall with an equal width—and take up quite a bit of garden real estate. Use caution when handling the stems, however, because they generate quite a bit of fine dust...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Flowers Used for Dye
Dyes created from gulmohur blossoms range in shades from golden yellow to dark brown, depending upon the mordant. The blossoms were also dried, finely ground and mixed with talc to produce rouge.
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Chrysanthemum Oil
Studies showed that extract of the chrysanthemum plant, along with other herbs like cinnamon, are effective in treating gout. Chrysanthemum tea has also been used for its antibiotic properties in Asia.Scientists have studied how many herbs and flowers...
California
Santa Monica
Wild (and Useful!) Herbs
A very helpful herb called yarrow, for instance, looks a lot like water hemlock, a deadly poison. If in doubt, don't put it in your mouth! And know how to properly use the plants you gather.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Uses of Carnauba Wax
Carnauba wax comes from a Brazilian palm tree called Copernica Cerifera and is derived from the fronds, which are cut, shredded and dried. As a plant-based substance, it's safe for human consumption and is often used as an anti-caking agent or a coating...
California
Santa Monica
Uses of Ornamental Plants
Ornamental plants in hanging baskets brighten a porch and soften the facade of a building. Use them in long hallways. Thick, leafy plants slow the flow of energy. In controlled studies by NASA scientists, some common ornamental plants--the Boston fern,...
California
Santa Monica
Grow and Use Lemongrass
Peel the outer layer to reveal the white inside part. This plant gets its name and unique flavor from citral, the same chemical compound that gives lemon peels their invigorating scent.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia