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Yes, Joyce, there is a Money Tree (Pachira)
Ugh, tax time! Are you wishing that you had a magic money tree? A minor point but one that some readers may find importantMoney Tree art at left by the incomparable "Inky" Used here with permission, Thank you! Inky Art not to be used elsewhere without...
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Garden Crafts: How-to Instructions For A Macrame\' Hanging Planter
I used a bit of brown nylon cord and just made a few turns, but you can use anything you have, and make it as elaborate as you wish. You will end up with six long cords that are six times longer than the planned project.
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Bad luck with houseplants? Try lucky bamboo
Fertilizers labeled for hydroponic growing would be most suitable.The most common, of the few complaints about lucky bamboo, is that a single stem may suddenly turn yellow for no apparent reason.
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El Segundo
A Grapevine Christmas Tree
What could I use to make a grapevine Christmas tree? After that, it was a matter of cutting many lengths of grapevine and winding them in, out, and around the supporting tomato cage.Using lengths of thin, flexible wire, I attached the grapevine to the...
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El Segundo
Warm and Cozy Buckwheat Seeds?
I was warm from my nose to my toes for the first time in months, and I had only been reading for just a few minutes. And I did, to no avail.Then one day I received a note from the southwest: “I'm sending you a package, watch for it.
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El Segundo
My favorite, versatile, new gardening tool is my \
My smart phone has an awesome utility for keeping records, issuing reminders, and gathering information. He felt sure that my next phone upgrade should be to a "smart phone," a tool that could give me some of the functions of our computer and more.
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El Segundo
Hummers at your window - a great gift idea!
Then you simply unscrew the top, wash the top and bottom, refill and reassemble. Many of them had never seen a hummer at all, never mind up close and personal. It turned out there were lots of choices, mostly in the $10 to $20 range.
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Jewelweed For Your Skin And Just For Fun
By lightly placing your fingers on either side, the heat from your touch will cause an explosion. Soothing To The Skin Benny Mazur/Flickr There's so much more to talk about with jewelweed than its ability to jump away from you.
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Causes For Bitter Potato Skins: Learn About Green Skin On A Potato
Green potato skin may be caused when a potato is stored on the kitchen counter or window sill, or even when the potato is grown too close to the soil surface, hence the recommendation toin a mound and store harvested potatoes in a completely cool, dark...
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Willoughby
Party Favors From the Heart: African Violets and Handmade Containers
Several shriveled for unknown reasons, and at least one time my tower of precariously rigged shelves fell down, creating a mess of leaves and potting soil everywhere.In the end, I wound up with enough violets that I could toss the really sad looking ones...
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Gardening Gifts A to Z
For the experienced gardener, order an uncommon, and still well within the budget, Amaryllis (Hippeastrum) bulb like one ofis a favorite food of many songbirds, and songbirds are treasured by many gardeners.
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Diana\'s Anise Biscotti
Our family's favorite recipe for Sicilian anise toast cookies, Biscotti all'Anice, uses fresh fennel or anise seeds from our garden, which add a special flavor to these low-fat cookies.
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What the Gardener Gets for Christmas
Too bad our non-gardening givers don't know about the newGardeners get oceans of lotions for Christmas. And maybe next year some hybridizer will give us the blue tulip. Oh, the pretty containers were different month to month, crockery pitchers, enameled...
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Plant Profiles For New Gardeners: Sempervirens tectorum, Hens and Chicks
The 'mother' plant with the smaller babies surrounding it is how the common name 'hens and chickens' came about and the various sizes of the plants in a grouping is very attractive, either in the garden or in a container.
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Gifts from and for Gardeners: How to Make a Discharge Printed Vest
I speak from personal experience.I test my garment with a drop of bleach in a hidden area before I get started. The odds of splashing bleach go up in the same ratio as how much you like what you're wearing.
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Handmade decorative paper with added flowers, seeds, leaves
For a beginner project, you may not want to buy any cotton linters; your paper will still be okay, just a bit fragile.One of the first things to do is construct a “frame” that will be the finished paper size.
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Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Zinnias
This makes them ideal for children's gardens. This all circles back to not overcrowding your zinnia plants, so don't be tempted to sow your seeds thicker than recommended.Zinnias make great cut flowers.
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Clay Critters for Plant Pots: A great kid craft for inside days
You could also condition the clay by running it through a pasta machine (clean it carefully afterward, or use a garage sale find just for this purpose). You'll also need a pencil or toothpick to add detail, aluminum foil, a baking sheet, and access to...
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Just add water, Paperwhites bring a hint of spring
Make the gift more lightweight (less costly to mail) by using plastic beads or acrylic chunks as the filler. The roots should have begun to grow, and leaves and buds will develop quickly for the recipient.You can't mail a container full of water but you...
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A Fruit-Tree Pruning Primer
Bench Cuts These cuts are used when you want to remove larger, upright branches in order to direct growth to less upright branches or to open the tree's center. Pruning Tools You'll Need Pruning tools are fairly basic.
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Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Daylilies
Collecting daylilies is extremely addictive and like the proverbial potato chip, you can't stop with just one! Most hybridzers time their plantings so that they can set their seedlings out in spring or early summer.
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Thick Tomato Skins: What Causes Tough Tomato Skin
The tough tomato skins are less likely to burn in the intense sunlight.If you get a sudden heat wave and you want to avoid thick tomatoes skins, you can provide some shade for your tomato plants during the hottest times of the day to help keep them from...
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Willoughby
Grapes That Have Thick Skin: Types Of Thick Skinned Grapes
“Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape.” So says Mae West's character ‘Tira' in the movie I'm No Angel. There are several interpretations of what that actually means, but suffice it to say that thick skinned grapes actually exist and very well might need...
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Pasture Primer: A Look at Pasture Plants
The leaves consist of two parts: a sheath, which fits around the stem, and a flat or narrow blade, which extends out from sheath and has parallel veins running vertically from the sheath.
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A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
I ruined a bunch until I finally made myself a harvest apron. Here is my quick fix so you can make one for yourself! How many shirts or skirts have you ruined by pulling them up and filling with nuts, herbs, fruits, and vegetables?
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Containers and Baskets - A Primer on Seasonal Color Design
Make sure the pot is twice as large around and deep as the root base, and then surround it with annuals or smaller perennials and a mixture of fantastic foliage. Elephant ears, coleus, euonymous, herbs, brunnera, sedges and grasses, and lily turf add...
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Citrus - A Short Primer on How To Grow Them.
They are best known for their wonderful fruits but these stunning plants are great looking. Lemons and limes, on the whole, are the least cold hardy of all citrus but Satsuma mandarins can be grown anywhere that doesn't go below 15 degrees in winter.Citrus...
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