Garden

4 Mistakes That Are Killing Your Vegetable Patch

Growing your own vegetables is a great way to reduce your food bill and get better quality produce that tastes far better than any of the stuff you can get at the supermarket. It would be great if you could just throw some seeds in the ground and wait for the magic to happen but it isn’t that easy. Growing vegetables takes a lot of hard work and careful tending, but if you’ve seemingly been doing everything right but your vegetables just aren’t growing, you might be making one of these mistakes.

Blog

I’m going to BlogOnX!

Even though I’ve been blogging for over seven years now, I haven’t yet attended a blog conference; so BlogOnX will be my very first one! It was a bit of a last minute thing, after my lovely friend Sarah asked me if I would like to go with her. I’ve heard a lot of great things about the Blog On conferences over the years so I’m super excited (if not slightly nervous) to pop my conference cherry with it!

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Garden

To Tree Or Not To Tree?

Source The property is perfect. Everything about your home is a million bucks, The Big Lebowski, tea and crumpets with the queen. Well, pretty much everything – there is the issue of the huge tree in the garden. Yep, we all know the one. It’s the type that is big enough to block natural light from entering the home yet sufficient to fell.

Interiors

5 Tips On How To Incorporate Light Into Your Home

For those of us who take pride in the way their home looks, there are few things worse than a room that is too dark. In addition to detracting from the look of a room, a lack of light can have negative psychological effects on the viewer – a dark room isn’t conducive to a positive and cheery atmosphere. Do you have a couple of rooms that don’t get a lot of natural light? Maybe you have some interior design plans for your home? Or perhaps you’ve just moved into your house and discovered that some spaces are lacking light? …