How would you describe the ideal garden plant? Some may value plants that are easy to grow, tolerate neglect and need minimal maintenance to be highly productive.

Suffering from too many lemons from your home garden? What a shame.  Take one of your extra lemon fruits and turn it into a project for a young, budding scientist or undercover agent. Harvest those lemons. Twist the base or cut the stem using hand pruners. For fruits too high to reach, use appropriate, stable […]

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Down and Dirty Southern California Gardening A weekly GardenZeus article series to help gardeners succeed in Southern California’s unique climates and growing conditions. Post 7: Mudpies and Fizz: Easy Home Tests for Soil pH GardenZeus receives commissions for purchases made through links in this post. Concerned that your soil pH may be high or low? Use these […]

The word “lavender” may be derived from the Latin “lavare,” the verb “to wash,” which hints at the plant’s longtime use as a bathing infusion. For a medicinal, fragrant bath, run very hot water and infuse about 1 cup of dried lavender flowers or 2 cups of fresh flowers (or to preference) for about 10 […]