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Tater Totes: DIY fabric pots for potatoes & other plants
Being a frugal fixer (tightwad, penny-pincher, etc.), I thought I could make the same thing using a roll of old landscape cloth and my sewing machine for much less than she had paid.
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Dear Sheila (2), Groundbreaking time in your new veggie garden
Tools need to go under roof. The bagged mulch goes on top of the newspaper to pretty it up and hold it down. Squash goes "next to" the cucumber cage. More informational links are highlighted in the text.Dear Sheila (1), You have to "pick" seeds before...
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A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
I used a sewing machine for nearly all the embellishments at first, but a friend's request for another harvest apron while my sewing machine was in the shop forced me to be more creative with attaching buttons and loops.Snaps and latch catches can be...
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Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
Interest has grown enough over the last decade to warrant specialty shops and plant nurseries to spring up everywhere to supply the demand for miniature plant varieties and tiny accessories.Dollhouse collectors and model train hobbyists, possibly with...
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For the Love of Luffa, or is it Loufah?
Pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf0604790 4 Dec 2008Dr. Albert L. Antioxidant Constituents in the Fruits of Luffa cylindrica (L.) Roem.American Chemical Society: J. If the sponge is splotchy, or too dark for your liking, you can whiten it (like the commercial...
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A Day at Dave\'s Garden
Good grief! There is water flowing under the door. I've already started someunder the lights upstairs. Came back inside and, ackk!...no coffee! Stupid. It is a miracle I can find anything.By then the dogs were whining to be taken out again.
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V for Victory - Victory Garden That Is!
These gardens also gave many a worried mother and father something to fill their time with during the long months of waiting for their sons to come home.The call to “Plant more in 44” was answered by over 20 million Americans.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part I
They each serve their own purpose and they each have their own personality. Located in a large city park, this garden has evolved into a huge success in just a few short years. They erect various type of fencing to keep the “critters” out and install...
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Create a Small Water Garden
Any large decorative container is perfect for a water garden; you can even purchase a liner for half whiskey barrel. I teased most of the soil off of the roots and filled the pots with the gravel.The larger pots give my plants room to grow and the gravel...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part IV
Every inch of space is utilized...They have dammed up a ditch that carried rain water from the parking lot and created a rice paddy which is very productive. One thing that I found very interesting, I didn't see on tomato plant in these gardens.Rice and...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part III
These will replace some of the many ash trees lost to the EAB. I am proud to say that I was a part of organnizing this program which has become an overwhelming success. The classes have been full since they began in 2005.There are over 50 community gardens...
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Making a zen garden: Your garden is your spa
Very basically, the word "zen" means to meditate, to observe or to see. Old equals interesting and wisdom.his, in my opinion, is found in some of the best gardens. Here is how to add a serene stress relieving spot to your garden.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part II
It's not uncommon to see deer, fox and a myriad of wild birds. I used to have a plot in this garden; I liked to go over early in the morning and work from dawn until 7:30-8 a.m. It was peaceful and I have had red-tailed hawks land on a fence post inches...
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Container Gardening to The max
It was very refreshing,submerging oneself in the ice cold water long enough to cool down. The one pictured in the photo belongs to DG member carrielamont.Over the years I have used many things to hold plants.
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Promises, Promises: My Gardening Resolutions
For less than $20, I can invest in a good mill file and whetstone, some machine oil and steel wool pads, and I'll be set.A lot of gardeners also swear by this method: fill a bucket with sand and a quart of motor oil.
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Make a Planter From an Old Chair
This attractive little planter was created from a $1 chair, some pass along plants and an old terracotta flowerpot. (we just thought the sparks would look cool!)The rusty bottom didn't take long to remove and the ring it was attached to was quite solid.
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Unorthodox Gardening Methods
Insert the plant and using your ands push the hole closed around the roots. I also think it would be fair to say that the majority of them garden in the traditional way, basically growing directly in the soil or in containers.
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Garden Structure
Remember to use lighting in your home garden for evening enjoyment.I didn't think that this fence and archway could ever be improved, but the addition of the Chihuly glass takes it over the top!, as you come around a bend in the path.
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Use cattle panels to build an arched trellis & hoop house
It was a great success despite the late tomato blight, so this year I wanted a more structurally sound arched trellis and the cattle panels were the perfect size, sturdy and easy to manage!
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Sun Clocks: Interesting TIME In Your Garden!
If you are already familiar with the information, skip to the- Excellent page of term definitions, pictures, and links.Morning, noon, and night fall are times of the day easily determined, but the length of daylight hours change throughout the seasons.
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Garden Resolutions: Next Year I Shall...
Next year I shall:Sounds simple enough, doesn't it? Well…..The painful fact is that I bought seeds last year. That ought to do it! Next year's garden will be scrumptious, undoubtedly worthy of a magazine cover.Looking again at #4, I am reminded that...
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Garden Bling Bling - Garden Art
No one but you can know for sure. But how do we know when the art stops and the shock-your-family-get-you-in-a-nut-house art starts? Here we go! There are a few little tips to help you know when you have really crossed the line in the world of garden...
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Cantigny Gardens
Most of the displays are changed frequently, and the garden is always a scene of novelty and fun.This is the newest of Cantigny's plantings, a three-acre prairie restoration where native plants flourish.
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Wit and Wisdom: Gardening Commentary Through the Ages
They are also often used to support, oppose or present an entirely different view of a situation in a humorous light or pridefully used in an attempt to bolster one's credentials as to being knowledgeable."--Yahoo AnswersI'd like to share with you some...
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A No-Wa-Wa Fountain for Your Garden
If you'd like to order one, here are some current suppliers:These items are available at home improvement stores and hardware stores. The term "no-wa-wa", perhaps a tad cutesy, originated several decades ago in a contest by Steve Gander, a local Iowa...
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Spring Poems
Spring can start slow here, snow lingers and the wind blows chill sometimes well into May. That doesn't stop the birds from singing and the grass from greening, or me from putting it all into words.
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St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardeners
Exclusion of women, however, was the rule rather than the exception in monasteries of the time.As word of Fiacre's miracle spread, people began flocking to him for food, healing and wisdom.
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