New Puppy Advice – The Don’ts Of Adding A New Puppy To The Family

Endless books, magazines, and Internet articles have addressed the basics when getting a new puppy. But regardless of just how simple and repetitive puppy care information may become, like anything else in life, always refer back to those basics for timeless advice.

Growing Rare Herbs

Growing rare herbs used in historic times or foreign locations is an interesting and rewarding gardening challenge. Perhaps you wish to grow medicinal herbs, culinary enhancements, biblical herbs or herbs indigenous to specific countries or cultures. Herbology, the study of the growth habits and applications of herbs, is a fascinating hobby. The exquisite foliage, flowers and fragrance of rare herbs can be blended artfully with perennials, trees and shrubs to add grace and fragrant harmony to the home garden.

Planning a Healthy Diet

Suggestions for healthy eating are illustrated in many different ways. Often pyramid-shaped charts are used. A food pyramid describes the various food groups and suggests choices that, if eaten in the right quantities, form the basis of a healthy diet. The United States Department of Agriculture offers a chart called My Pyramid; however, many medical research groups have amended this primary outline. There are food pyramid plans for Latin, Asian and Mediterranean diets as well as well as a chart for vegetarians.

Thinking of Spring A Little Early

March is the month that gardeners become eager to start planting. You can dig up and work your soil as soon as it is dry enough. With sandy soils you can start whenever you like, but test clay or silty soil to see if it is dry enough.