Fruit trees bear at different times of the year. For example, there are apples for early season, midseason, and late season (well into fall), so it is wise to select trees for the season you want.
Gardening Through A Drought Or How To Sprinkle Your Water Wisely
So you find yourself in the middle of the worst drought within living memory and your garden occupants are starting to sag, flag and wilt. Which plants should be watered first and which plants should receive the main quantities of the irrigation? You begin to feel like the leader of a third world country trying to spread your counties meagre budget across healthcare, military and education. Never fear, let me dampen your worries with some drought advice.
First to receive t…
Growing Tropical Plants in Non-Tropical Reqions
Tropical Paradise. We often see commercials of Tropical Vacations and dream of better days sitting under the sun with a drink in our hands. What is it about the tropics we so enduring? What lures us to these places? In colder climates during the winter months plants have acclimated to the climate. They can take freezing temperatures and months of snow and ice. However tropical plants are not capable of surviving these climates. But we still long for that Tropical fruit we buy in the store for outrageous prices. What if we could go over to a tropical tree, select a ripe fruit and eat it right then and there, while outside a blizzard is taking place? Our own tropical paradise, right inside out own home. Many tropical plants will grow with the right care and conditions in areas that normally would not permit them. These same plants that grow in abundance in Asia, South America, Africa, can grow right in your own living room, ready to pluck the ripe, sweet fruit grown specifically by you.
Learn What Foods Will Infuse Your Body With Energy
If 70-80% of your body is water, what does it make sense to eat? Foods which have a 70-80% water content.
The One That Got Away?
Are you paying for health foods and letting more than half of them escape you? You probably waste the healthiest part of your food without a second thought.
Calories: The Good and Bad
Making a commitment to have healthier eating habits is a tough one. Knowing how to implement that commitment may be even harder. Where do you start? What foods should you eat, and which ones should you stay away from?
All About Carbohydrates
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about carbohydrates.
Pesticides: Cause For Concern?
Many people are, in my opinion, rightly concerned about pesticides. 31,000 tons of pesticides are sprayed on UK land each year. Farm workers may have direct, intense contact with pesticides, but the general population are also exposed to pesticides via residues in and on food, pesticides in the air, as a result of spraying in fields, pesticides applied to road sides to control weeds, and even pesticide contamination of drinking water. As well as the active ingredients there a…
Life after Cancer Treatment – Tips from a Survivor
Tips from a cancer survivor
Health Conditions That a Good Fiber Diet Can Prevent
We have all heard that fiber is important for a healthy life. But how important? Let us have a look at some the health conditions that fiber in your diet
Control your Weight and Feel the Improvement
A look at weight loss in a controlled manner the things you need to do to make a steady weight loss. Examine your diet get the right exercise and look at the way you feel when you have achieved a goal.
Choosing A Juicer
There are many advantages to eating fruit and vegetables raw. Water-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin C) are destroyed by heating, so there will be less vitamin C in a cooked carrot than in a similar raw carrot.
But for some nutrients, cooking (and juicing) is more nutritious, because it makes the nutrients more easily assimilated. Cooking and juicing breaks down tough fibres and allows the digestive juices to work more effectively on the vegetable. This is particularly im…