List of Articles

ARTICLES

GENERAL GROWING HELP

General Growing instructions.

Stratification Instructions

Using Egg Boxes to start Seeds. Perfect for Stratification

Never grown seeds before? You got this!

Dont want to Stratify your seeds? Plant them in the fall.

Seeds that Need Stratification

How Are Your Seeds Cared For Before You Get Them? -What to look for when buying seeds.

How to start seeds to get the best possible plants.

12 Reasons to start your plants from seed.

How to Choose a Potting or Seeding Mix.

Potting on your seedlings get get the best possible plants.

Spring Garden Cleanup Checklist.

What is an inoculant?

GO AND GARDEN - YOU GOT THIS!

Starting a New Garden

Winter is the best time to plan your summer garden.

How to start seeds to get the best possible plants.

Tools You Need To Make A Simple Garden.

How to Choose a Potting or Seeding Mix.

Making Planting Containers.

What Plants should I grow in my new Garden?

Planning your New Garden

Potting on your seedlings get get the best possible plants.

Spring Garden Cleanup Checklist.

Great Perennials to help you save the Planet

GROW YOUR OWN TREES

List of tree seeds.

PLANTS

16 reasons to grow herbs as Houseplants.

How to Guide for Growing Great Garlic.

How to prepare soil bed for planting Garlic.

Don't throw out that Poinsettia - it's a great year round house pot plant.

Keep Your Shrubs And Trees Healthy This Winter.

How To Protect Your Plant From Late Winter Cold Snaps.

Grow your own medicine. Beat back the Coronavirus in your own back yard.

PLANTS AND HEALTH

Plants in the house help your health in many ways.

Grow your own medicine. Beat back the Coronavirus in your own back yard.

GARDEN PROJECTS

Create a Cheerful winter Garden with Silk Flowers.

Feeding wild birds in the winter months - How to.

SAVE THE POLLINATORS! INSECT DECLINE

Lets save all the bees, not just the honey bees.

What a huge drop in insect numbers will mean to us

Some insects will survive the die-off.

Chemical Use Guidelines. Help to save the insects and the planet.

What you can do to help save the insects

Science and insect decline

Flower bloom time chart

References used in creation of these articles.

ENVIRONMENT

Haze Effects on Gardening and Agriculture.

Spotted Lantern Fly. Help to stop the spread of this disastrous pest

Spotted Lantern Fly - Present Quaratine is ineffective.

Wisteria Can Be Invasive. Keep It Under Control.

ALL ABOUT CATNIP

Stages in Catnip plants life

How to choose which catnip to buy.

Taking Care of Catnip Plants for best Production

Questions about Catnip products

How Floral Encounters Produces Catnip.

LAWN CARE

Natural Lawns - Being more green about your garden.

FARM RELATED

Floral Encounters is now a designated Insect Sanctuary - What does that Mean?

How Floral Encounters Produces Seed.



Janice Hazeldine PhD is the owner and head grower of Floral Encounters an organic Medicinal Herb farm that is also a designated sanctuary for pollinators.