Chives How To Harvest

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Introducing “Chives How To Harvest”, your ultimate guide to successfully harvesting chives! This⁤ comprehensive product is perfect for both new gardeners ⁤and seasoned enthusiasts, providing you with all the knowledge and techniques you need to ​maximize your chive harvest.

With “Chives How​ To Harvest,”‍ you’ll ​learn the⁢ step-by-step process of ⁤harvesting chives like a pro. The⁣ guide begins⁣ by ‍explaining the ideal conditions for growing ​chives, including soil⁣ type,​ sunlight, and watering needs. You’ll⁤ gain insights into the optimal time‍ to plant chives and how to care‌ for them ‍throughout their growth stages, ensuring a bountiful harvest.

One ⁤of the key features of “Chives How To Harvest” is its​ detailed instructions on harvesting ‍chives at ⁣the right time. You’ll learn how to ‍identify when your chives⁣ are ready for harvest by examining their appearance and scent. The guide covers various harvesting methods, including cutting chives ​with⁤ scissors‍ or a⁢ knife and the different techniques⁤ for preserving or freezing your harvest to maintain freshness for longer periods.

Moreover, “Chives How To Harvest” goes beyond simply teaching you⁣ how to

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Growing Heirloom Flowers explains in simple terms how to grow the fullest, richest, and most aromatic blooms possible.

Heirloom flowers have stood the test of time. Prized for their beauty, scent, hardiness, or other star qualities, these vintage varieties continue to capture our imaginations and decorate our gardens long after they first came to be. These flowers have experience, and now you can enjoy the experience of growing them.

In Growing Heirloom Flowers, author Chris McLaughlin takes you on a tour of these alluring blooms, covering the benefits, challenges, growing requirements, and everything else you need to know about more than 40 heirloom flowers.

Along the way, she offers tips, tricks, and creative projects for making the most of your heirloom garden, from arranging and preserving to dyes, drinks, and more. With a wealth of information and stunning full-color photography, this book is the perfect guide to adding heirloom beauty to your life.

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Contents

1 Bold Blooms For The Cutting Garden

“A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking, but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.”

—Vita Sackville-West.

2 Flowers For Fragrance

“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.”

—Heinrich Heine.

3 The Handcrafter’S Heirlooms

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

—Claude Monet.

4 Cottage Classics

Most heirloom plants are, by their very nature, easygoing individuals. But perhaps you’re new at gardening or maybe you’d like to dip your toes into the pond of heirloom flowers to test the waters. Or maybe you only have weekends available for gardening.

Introduction: An Heirloom Flower Revival

Fashion dictates everything. All it takes is one or two trendsetters to spot something that tickles their fancy— they parade it around publicly, and voilà! The rest of us are soon following suit, running around like goats in a spring rain.

Well, hallelujah, flower gardens have once again come into vogue and heirlooms are now celebrating their day in the sun! Not to worry about fleeting trends in this case. Flower gardening is just beginning to hit its stride, and the heirloom flower resurgence is in its infancy, headed for a long and healthy life.

We have Italy to thank for the “slow food” movement, and this undoubtedly paved the way for the “slow flower” movement. We, the people, are finally embracing local, sustainable, and quality everything. We’re once again growing our own flowers for our own homes.

It shouldn’t come as any surprise that the matriarchs—the vintage flowers of our past—are calling to us. As a huge flower fan, I truly appreciate cultivars of all kinds, even the brand-new, shiny varieties. But it’s the club-of-plants-past that holds the flowers of my heart. This book is all about the old-fashioned flowers that connect yesterday’s gardeners to today’s gardeners and most assuredly to tomorrow’s gardeners.

How To Make A Rose And Lavender Body Scrub

Among the limitless number of beauty potions created using heirloom flowers, body scrubs are one of

1 Pour the sugar into a large bowl. Add the coconut oil on top of the sugar.

2 Add the lavender essential oil drops on top of the coconut oil, then add the dried lavender buds to the bowl.

3 Add the rose petals by tearing them into a pleasing size. Drop the petals into the sugar mixture and stir until everything is well blended.

4 Scoop your body scrub into an airtight container. Scrubs with fresh ingredients such as flower petals will last in an airtight jar for about 2 weeks.

5 To use, apply a generous amount of scrub to wet skin and rub it onto your body in a circular motion. Rinse off.

Materials

1½ cups granulated sugar
Large glass bowl
½ cup + 1 tablespoon coconut or olive oil
10–12 drops lavender essential oil
2 teaspoons dried lavender flower buds
Rose petals (one or two roses)
Spoon (or small scoop) for stirring and scooping
Airtight jar

How To Make Frozen Flower Ice Cubes

Flowers suspended in ice are simple and beautiful—a must‑have for the garden party.

1 In order to make the flowers look like they are suspended inside the ice cubes, you need to create them in layers. Start by filling your ice trays about one-fourth of the way with water. To make the first layer of flowers, place them so they are facing down inside the tray. Freeze the trays.

2 Once that first layer is frozen, add more water to fill the cubes about halfway. Freeze the tray.

3 When that layer is frozen, fill the cubes the rest of the way up and add flowers facing up this time. Freeze the tray.

Tip

Boiling the water removes the air bubbles and gases, producing clearer ice cubes. If you were hoping for crystal clear ice cubes like those served in upscale bars, I’m going to tell you the cold, hard truth. You’re not getting those at home. Those diamond-shiny bad boys are produced slowly by a special (expensive) ice machine and then someone hand cuts them individually. You don’t need that. You’ve got orthodontist bills to pay and a party to set up.

Materials

Ice cube trays (I like the silicone types)
Distilled water (boiled and cooled)
Edible flowers from organically grown plants (we don’t want to use flowers that have been sprayed with chemicals)

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cool Springs Press (May 8, 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0760359393
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0760359396
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.75 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.38 x 0.75 x 10.43 inches