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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Diet Pots

The most important step to having a healthy body is to eat healthy food. What better way than to grow your own diet in a pot. Many fruits, vegetables, herbs and edible flowers can be grown in pots on a balcony or a patio and some can even be grown successfully on a windowsill. Use decorative and imaginative containers for your plants. As long as they are well-drained and deep enough to accommodate the roots of your plants, almost anything goes! The following nine fruits, veggies and herbs represent good sources of all the healthy vitamins you can grow yourself.

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Spuds With Pizazz!

The common or garden boiled potato has slid out of fashion in recent years for various reasons. One contributing factor is the ever increasing number of tasty potato-style snacks available, making boiled spuds seem flavourless and boring. Of course another problem has been all the fad diets over the last generation or two, often convincing us that potatoes are full of calories, or belong to the dreaded ‘carb’ family and should be avoided at all costs.

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

A Second Honeymoon with your PC

I’ve just recently taken to switching off my computer during the day. No, I’m not ill, I just needed a change. So determined am I to succeed at my inte et biz, that I totally switched off. Now, this may seem weird to all you cybe uts out there, but I haven’t left the throng. I’m just taking on a different angle. When the computer’s buzzing ( and they do - listen ) and you’re flying around cyber space forgetting where you came in, you are positioning yourself in a different world, and it can be stressful, to say the least.

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Grow Your Own Groceries

Wouldn't it be great to avoid the weekly supermarket shopping nightmare from time to time? Think of all the petrol, cash and not least of all, the STRESS! An added bonus of avoiding supermarket shopping is that you aren't tempted to buy 'two for the price of one' family packs of chocolate, snacks and other bad-for-you-munchies! So, putting aside all the negative stuff you don't need anyway, let's move on to the positive approach of growing your own groceries...even if you live in an apartment, have never grown a plant before, or have a small family budget.

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Gardening - Natural Science NOT Rocket Science..

Don't force yourself out of the most profitable hobby in the universe because you think it's too hard to learn ...It isn't! Gardening is fast becoming the world's number one hobby, and with all the latest 'alte ative' information we have to hand, gardening as a natural science is fun to learn ...Don't force yourself out of the most profitable hobby in the universe because you think it's too hard to learn ...It isn't!

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Christmas Herbs

Okay I know it's July but they say Christmas comes earlier every year, and this year, as usual, most of us will be wondering how to get through the long shopping expeditions as well as stressing over the bank balance. Not necessary! Give friends and family potted herbs to grow in the kitchen or plant outside. the following Spring. Herbs are always welcome as they are practical and attractive in the house as well as in the garden. Earn loads of Brownie points in the kitchen by adding fresh mint leaves to new potatoes!

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

How Can I Lose Weight?

'How Can I Lose Weight' was Googled 9 million times last month... phew! Have you ever wondered why some folk never put on weight and others spend their whole life trying to lose it? There are a few mythical answers to this very popular question: - willpower - metabolism - glands (??)rn- various other medical conditions - time - money - lifestyle ..... ah, now this one may not be so mythical! In fact, how we life our lives in general has a lot to do with how our bodies respond. This wonderful biological miracle we live in responds directly to how we treat it.

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Grow Your Own Healthy Kids!

Of course it's very possible to grow a bunch of healthy kids, especially if you can find the child in you as well. Being a kid can be great fun, and there's no reason why we can't run around and play kids games until we are grandparents and beyond. As soon as the sun is shining get outside in the fresh air... especially if you live in a climate that has very short summers ( talking UK here!). Make the most of the sunlight. As long as you protect your skin from harmful rays, sunlight is the best form of vitamin D - and doesn't it make you feel good!

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

6 Fashion Tips For Gardeners

Clothes and skin cream are far removed from potting out your begonias, or digging a trench for a line of potatoes. But the clothes you wear are important for your protection in the garden. Here are six simple but effective solutions to various gardening hazards... 1. Starting from the top, you need to protect your head. Body heat escapes through the head and in cold weather rna warm hat should be worn. Knit yourself a 'gardening crazy' hat or buy a simple woollen hat on the high street.

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Grow Your Own Pharmacy

There are a number of vitamins and minerals we need on a daily basis to keep us healthy. Strictly speaking we should be able to get all we need from nature, but when you see those irrsistable bottles and jars of 'extra vitamin supplements, it's almost criminal not to give them a try. However, it seems that a) most of them get left in the back of a cupboard or b) we didn't actually need them in the first place. Sometimes both a and b apply!

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Grow Your Own Magic

Although growing your own fruit and veg is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself and your family, there is a magical world beyond the simple veggies we can grow in the garden. Some of the most annoying plants in fact have some amazing benefits. Weeds and wild plants:

Primary topic: Gardening

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50& Less Cooking

50% Less Cooking without hitting the fast food button! Don't you just cringe when some clever kitchen type tells you what you could be doing with the leftovers in the fridge, when it's plainly obvious the leftovers will stay there until they walk out by themselves! More often than not, saving money with leftovers, although a great idea, takes a lot of time in preparation and relies on many other ingredients being available. So... Design your own leftovers!

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

The Secret Addiction

One drug that’s causing world-wide health problems, even fatalities in some cases, isn’t a class A – heroine or crack or any of the other designer drugs on the market. In fact this drug is and always will be legal, and no, it isn’t alcohol or nicotine. This drug, that generations have been addicted to, which is now manifesting itself in over a million new sufferers of diabetic conditions every year is sugar.

Primary topic: Gardening

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10 FREE Gardening Products

One of the pleasurable spin-offs in organic gardening is finding alte ative ways of coming up with the same, if not rnbetter, end result..... Household throwaways can be valuable to the alte ate enthusiast. Here are ten recyclable ideas to make gardening a little less hard on the pocket!

Primary topic: Gardening

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By Linda GrayRecently published1 topic

Grow Your Own Superfoods!

If all the grow your own thing is getting a bit overwhelming, or you don't have time or the resources to grow all the crops your family needs to survive, opt for the best options and just grow your own superfoods! There are so many fruits and vegetables we can grow that are packed full of the good stuff...

Primary topic: Gardening

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