12 Healing Herbs You Need To Grow In Your Medicinal Garden

Medicinal plants grown in your own gardens can reduce your dependence on drugs, if not completely eliminate them. But growing random herbs with medicinal properties doesn’t help. It is a common myth that all herbal preparations are safe by virtue of being natural. This is far from true. A typical example is foxglove or Digitalis purpurea. It has a positive effect on heart function, with the cardiac drug digitalin extracted from the plant. However,...

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12 Tips For A Healthy Organic Lawn

Want to be notified each time we publish a new blog post? Then make sure you like Natural Living Ideas on Facebook here where we share not only our blog posts, but the best natural living ideas from around the web. Want a beautiful, green, healthy organic lawn? Then here are twelve ways to achieve just that… Do A Soil Test Before you do anything, test your soil. You can buy a DIY kit at your local garden store or from this page on Amazon,...

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Simple Recipes for Organic Weed Killer

Vinegar Weed Killer Acetic acid is a great organic homemade weed killer and can be found in vinegar, as well as lemon juice. While most vinegar has an acid content of around 5%, a more concentrated solution of 10% to 20% will more effectively kill weeds. At the right strength this organic weed killer will kill the leaves of any plant it comes in contact with, but not the roots. Because of this it is most effective on young weeds which...

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