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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10 Creative Seed Starting Ideas

If you are looking for an inexpensive way to start your seeds this spring then we have a great post sharing creative ways in which you can use old and used items to do just that. You can use lemon peels, eggshells, newspaper, toilet paper rolls, milk jugs and much more! Take a look at these creative seed starter ideas and get growing! A Citrus Peel Starter Pot For Seedlings – Half a lemon can provide a perfect first home for any...

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Easy Composting Tips For Your Organic Garden

Having an organic vegetable garden means freedom from the chemical laden produce that is usually found in supermarkets these days. If you are against the practice of big commercial food growers which is using chemically laden fertilizers and pesticides, organically growing your own is the best act of defiance you can take. Composting is an integral part of organic gardening. Composting enriches or improves the soil by providing nutrients to it...

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5 Tips in Storing Your Winter Squash

Most farmers and gardeners are in love with winter squash. They love to plant and grow winter squash because it can be easily stored and it can last long even during winter. Winter squash just like the summer squash are planted and grown from spring until the summer season. The only difference is that, winter squash takes more time to mature compared to the summer squash varieties. While summer squash is harvested during the summer, the winter squash...

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Garden To-Do List For November

November. It’s the month we start looking forward to the holidays. It is also the month when garden chores seriously start to slow down. But even though, there are still some tasks the gardener must attend to before finally hanging the spade. Here’s our suggested to-do list for this month… TIPS IN GENERAL Mulch. Mulching is beneficial to organic gardening because it helps keep soil warm during the winter, helps retain moisture during the...

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7 Secret Tricks to Get the Most Produce Out Of Your Vegetable Garden

Do not let a limited garden space hamper your dreams of abundant harvest. Having a small area to work with does not mean you cannot harvest more crops. In reality it is doable! You just need to work a little bit more to make this dream turn into a reality. Here’s how to do it. 7 Secret Tricks to Get the Most Produce Out Of Your Vegetable Garden 1. Build Up Your Soil If you want to extract more yields from your vegetable garden, the first...

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5 How-To’s in Preparing Your Garden For Winter

When the leaves starts to fall in your garden and the breeze of the air starts to sting the skin because of its coldness, then, this is nature’s way of saying that winter is just around the corner. This also means that taking care of your garden is now a priority that should not be taken for granted. So, before winter finally sets in, it is wise to manage your garden and prepare it for the winter so that when the cold weather arrives, you can just...

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