green living blog

There's an added benefit to gardening other than growing plants. It's keeping fit. And it's more than mere exercise.  We tend to overlook the fact that everyday gardening is more than a productive way to grow beautiful plants and obtain tasty fruits and vegetables. How many gardeners ever considered the immense amounts of exercise one can get in the process of gardening.  While you can get almost as much muscle (if not more) exercise as you do working out, it is very productive at the same time. How could gardening possibly give as much exercise as working out? Just think about all the various facets of preparing a garden.  There are holes to be dug, bags and pots to be carried, and weeds to be pulled.  Doing all of these things help to work out almost every group of muscles in your body. Here's a tip. Before you go out into your garden, you should always stretch out.  Even if your goal isn’t to work out and get exercise, it’s still a good idea....

There's absolutely no reason not to have a number of different fruit trees in your garden.  Don't expect to be an expert right away; we all make mistakes that sometimes haunt us for years afterwards.  Some of us make worse mistakes than others, though. I think that if there was an award for being the most naïve person to ever attempt growing a tree, I would win. I remember when I decided to plant a tree of my own, I had the perfect spot in mind.  There was a gap between my house and my fence of about 5 feet. It was probably the least traveled area of my whole lawn, and I thought it could use something to spice it up.  Maybe if I provided some lovely shade, it would become more used by my family.  I envisioned a little picnic paradise in the shade, where my family could go just to be with each other and nature.  Boy was I wrong.  I thought I would start with a nice apple tree. Despite the risk of apples falling on our heads, I thought it...