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Toxic Weed Poisoning

Blog: Cross Roads Ranch   -   Sunday October 16, 2011   -   By Mathew

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Announcing the Golden Girls!

Blog: Golden Acres Ranch, LLC   -   Friday September 23, 2011   -   By Bobbie

Our sheep and goats are now available for hire! Recover your landscape in a most charming and environmentally friendly way. Their work is impressive. Take a look at what they can do with kudzu in just a couple weeks. We call them the Golden Girls . Find out...

More Mullein Please!

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Friday April 08, 2011   -   By Jessica

Since antiquity, mankind has used the velvety mullein plant for many purposes. From Roman times, the stem- stripped of the leaves and flowers and dipped in tallow- was carried as a torch in religious processions. Why not make a giant torch eh? Well, they...

POKE ROOT PART TWO

Blog: Spices and Herbs by Elaynn   -   Saturday February 26, 2011   -   By Elaynn

All parts of the pokeweed are poisonous, with the highest concentrations in the rootstock. The leaves and stems are next in toxicity, and the berries have the smallest amount of poison. Pokeweed contains phytolaccatoxin and phytolaccigenin, which are poisonous...

POKEROOT PART ONE

Blog: Spices and Herbs by Elaynn   -   Saturday February 26, 2011   -   By Elaynn

  Here in North Carolina we have been seeing some nice weather in the past few weeks. And some plants are starting to come back to life. One is going to be the poke-root a/k/a The poke-weeds, also known as poke, pokebush, pokeberry, poke-root...

Spray Weeds With Vinegar?

Blog: So Succulent Gardens   -   Wednesday July 07, 2010   -   By Blossomfarm

Some home gardeners already use vinegar as a herbicide, and some garden stores sell vinegar pesticides. But no one has tested it scientifically until now. Agricultural Research Service scientists offer the first scientific evidence that it may be a potent...

Life is like a garden

Blog: BackYard Produce   -   Friday April 23, 2010   -   By Lydia

Life is like a garden and people are like weeds Some weeds are quiet and keep to themselves Some weeds have thorns or stickers Some weeds have beautiful flowers but when you get up close they stink Some weeds are very territorial and...

NATURAL WEED KILLER

Blog: So Succulent Gardens   -   Thursday March 25, 2010   -   By Blossomfarm

NATURAL WEED KILLER Ingredients 36 fl. oz BOILING WATER 2 Tbsp vinegar 2 Tbsp. table salt 1 Tbsp. lemon juice 2 tsp. powder dishwasher soap Directions Mix all together. Please wear protective eye, hand and body protection.  This is not a selective...

Plain Plantain. Or Is It?

Blog: Morgan Botanicals   -   Monday June 08, 2009   -   By Jessica

I love seeing little herb gardens of plantain growing in the cracks of people's driveways. These "weeds" are far too often plucked out (just like dandelions) but I have my hopes. Do you ever notice how Mother Nature plops down herbs in the most...


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