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Garden Crafts: How-to Instructions For A Macrame\' Hanging Planter
This can be accomplished in a couple of ways. A coat hook, plant hook, or just a nail on the porch outside. There will be three sets of Square Knots in two different levels. It will take a bit of practice to make the resulting opening exactly the size...
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El Segundo
Bad luck with houseplants? Try lucky bamboo
Keep the water level fairly constant in the container. As long as the roots are in water, the sky is the limit on arrangement. Leaves are a medium green (possibly with white stripe) and roots are white or orange.
California
El Segundo
A Grapevine Christmas Tree
After the holidays are over, I simply slip a large garbage bag over the tree to keep it from collecting dust. A garden angel added just the right touch to the top of the tree.Special ornaments that I make each year are packets of seeds collected from...
California
El Segundo
Warm and Cozy Buckwheat Seeds?
I have not been this warm in a very long time.It isn't strange to me anymore, the friendships that are made on Dave's Garden. With the first frost came advice from friends far and wide.One of those friends from out west sent to me a list of foods that...
California
El Segundo
My favorite, versatile, new gardening tool is my \
I need never buy a plant without a second opinion from a fellow gardener.The internet doesn't stop at Dave's Garden. I can't believe the quality I get from this little device, especially in coping with low light situations.
California
El Segundo
Hummers at your window - a great gift idea!
I bought a large hanging pot of Fuschia 'Blue Eyes' to further entice the little flying jewels and hung that on the same pole. Last year was the first time I attempted to attract hummingbirds to my garden by deliberately planting nectar plants and hanging...
California
El Segundo
Jewelweed For Your Skin And Just For Fun
For me, I'll keep my volunteer jewelweeds in a section of the front garden and leave the impatiens at the garden center. While it won't heal a rash, it will prevent the oils from spreading to cause a rash in the first place.
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Causes For Bitter Potato Skins: Learn About Green Skin On A Potato
Greening of potato skin does not occur when temperatures are 40 F. But, bitter potato skin is only the most benign reason not to eat spuds when the potato skin looks green. To further prevent the possibility of ingesting any toxic solanine,in a cool dark...
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Willoughby
Party Favors From the Heart: African Violets and Handmade Containers
Not yet overwhelmed by my undertaking, I set out to gather enough African Violets for 150 guests as quickly and inexpensively as possible. This plan included throwing, trimming, cutting drainage holes and glazing all 150 vessels.Burning the midnight oil...
California
El Segundo
Gardening Gifts A to Z
If your giftee is already a subscriber,- Beginner and advanced gardeners alike enjoy the wealth of information and sometimes fresh perspectives they find in a new, encyclopedia style book.
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El Segundo
Diana\'s Anise Biscotti
Accessed August 25, 2008.Save your money: Delicious cups of wonder from the world of COFFEE Place biscotti on their side back on the cookie sheets.Bake again at the lower temperature for 15-25 minutes.Check the bottoms and when they are slightly toasted...
California
El Segundo
What the Gardener Gets for Christmas
On Black Friday this year I provided you gardeners with a means of getting. Frequently only common names are used, if the photos are captioned with names at all. I would love them more if they had holes in the bottom.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles For New Gardeners: Sempervirens tectorum, Hens and Chicks
Many new gardeners are starting to plan their first adventure into our crazy, wonderful world. This little succulent is native to the dry slopes of southern European mountain ranges like the Alps and has been a familiar house-hold plant for over a thousand...
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El Segundo
Gifts from and for Gardeners: How to Make a Discharge Printed Vest
By being creative, and using your imagination, you can use discharge prints in many different situations. Lay plastic down where you will be working. I usually let mine soak in this mixture while I'm cleaning up my mess.
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El Segundo
Handmade decorative paper with added flowers, seeds, leaves
I made my own deckles out of 1- by 2-inch wood. These frames are technically called deckles. If so, apply several coats of polyurethane to the wood before stapling the screen to the bottom.
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El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Zinnias
Clip the stems early in the morning and only take flowers that are just before their peak. Even if you don't pinch them, they will put on a great show, but this helps the plants stay compact and not as likely to fall over in hard rains.There are zinnias...
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El Segundo
Clay Critters for Plant Pots: A great kid craft for inside days
Just position your clay critter on the rim, with a piece of aluminum foil underneath, and it's ready for the oven.Bake your ladybug according to the directions on your polymer clay, usually for about 25 minutes at 274°.
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El Segundo
Just add water, Paperwhites bring a hint of spring
Add water until the flat part is submerged by a half inch. Backyard stones might suffice in an opaque or translucent container. When you see that classic cliche,"just add water," you're inclined to think there's a catch.
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El Segundo
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. Remove any dead, broken, or diseased branches.
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Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Daylilies
All you need to do is brush the pollen from the anthers of one flower to the tip of the stigma of another. You can then remove the pod and harvest your seeds. Daylilies are some of the easiest perennials that a gardener can grow.
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El Segundo
Thick Tomato Skins: What Causes Tough Tomato Skin
In high heat, tomato fruit can be scalded by the sun. While the skins on your tomatoes may be thicker, your tomato plant will produce more fruit and you will be less like to lose tomato fruit to sun damage.
Ohio
Willoughby
Grapes That Have Thick Skin: Types Of Thick Skinned Grapes
Not all seedless grapes have thick skins but some, like ‘Neptune,' do. When ripe, they exude a rich aroma and are easily slid from the stem.are also more likely to have thick skin.
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Willoughby
Pasture Primer: A Look at Pasture Plants
Selecting the right forage species for your area is one of the keys to establishing and to maintaining healthy pastures. “Like the legumes, the chicory has a long taproot, which brings up nutrients, and the horses seem to enjoy it,” he says.
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A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
Kids can embellish an apron for the special gardeners in their lives with the myriad of craft resources available, like finger paints, permanent markers, tie-dye, iron-on patches, or transfer pictures.The aprons are good throughout the planting, growing,...
California
El Segundo
Containers and Baskets - A Primer on Seasonal Color Design
Trailing plants emphasize and compliment a container with one main taller plant and smaller mixed species surrounding it. One of the easiest ways to use combinations of plants is to start with an impressive, larger specimen.
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El Segundo
Citrus - A Short Primer on How To Grow Them.
There are more, and less popular, varieties of each plant that can be grown for their size, shape, blooms, and fruit. In pot culture all trees will be treated like young trees their whole life and will need deep watering once a week and might need water...
California
El Segundo
Getting Attached To Your Equipment: A Primer On Tractor Attachments
Front Forks Forks on a tractor make moving anything on a pallet—seed, feed, fertilizer, you name it—a breeze. If you have hardpan ground that impairs drainage or plant growth, a middle buster can help break up that tough soil.
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