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Dear Sheila (2), Groundbreaking time in your new veggie garden
More informational links are highlighted in the text.Dear Sheila (1), You have to "pick" seeds before you can pick vegetableson learning planting tchniques by planting your easy crops
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El Segundo
A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
A little fabric glue or decorative squeeze paints can help seal the cut edges and prevent raveling.I applied an iron-on transfer of a picture and a poem to the top bib section of the apron.Another pocket, iron-on patches, or anything decorative could...
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El Segundo
Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
(4:17)Group your plants by their requirements for light, water, and temperature range, and choose slow-growing dwarf or miniature varieties. Having a tiny garden in a container is more fun to view close up instead of the distance that some of their larger...
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El Segundo
For the Love of Luffa, or is it Loufah?
An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant... NARC, LIBIRD, IPGRI. Luffa is a genus of the Cucurbitaceae family, and include many cultivated and wild varieties. Sponges sliced into 1/2 inch rounds and positioned into soap molds, can be embedded...
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El Segundo
A Day at Dave\'s Garden
It is hard to believe that under two feet of snow is my vibrant, beautiful garden lying dormant.waiting to spring back with the heat of the sun. Good grief! There is water flowing under the door.
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El Segundo
V for Victory - Victory Garden That Is!
In the aftermath of the war, people stopped the victory gardens and went back to buying their produce from the stores. I had never heard of victory gardens before I came across this old photo of my great-grandfather with my grandfather and his brother.
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El Segundo
Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part I
Many who live in condos, apartments or have home with small yards need someplace to grow things and the Goodwill Garden gives them a place to do this.For a small fee residents can rent a plot for their own personal gardens.
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El Segundo
The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Create a Small Water Garden
By placing my kettle where I did, it is shaded after 2PM. However, it is still quite frugal and more than affordable for gardeners on a tight budget. They make great water garden containers.My kettle had been exposed to the elements, so I decided to remove...
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El Segundo
Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part IV
These folks are all Korean. They have the seeds, plants and most importantly the knowledge they have brought from their native land. It is part of a Korean Senior Citizen apartment complex.
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El Segundo
Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part III
Community organizating and how to go about obtaining vacant parcels of land. Founded by 3 Dominican Nuns to teach low income inner city families to grow their own food. I am proud to say that I was a part of organnizing this program which has become an...
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El Segundo
Making a zen garden: Your garden is your spa
That is an example of Koko.There is one last thing you can add to your zen garden if you find a bit more green pleasing and calming. That is where Kanso and Seijaku come in.Step 3: The sand or gravel goes in now.
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El Segundo
Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part II
A 10 HP rear tine tiller as well as a lawn mower is provided by the University for Gardeners use.4 hours are set aside once a month for a “community” work session. It's located on property that was Henry Ford's home.
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El Segundo
Container Gardening to The max
They can also be planted. It was very refreshing,submerging oneself in the ice cold water long enough to cool down. It has had an interesting life so far. The photo of the planted tub to the left was generously donated by DG member Candyce.
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El Segundo
Promises, Promises: My Gardening Resolutions
Yes, fellow gardeners, this year will be the year I get my act together. Adjacent to the arbor are the three now-dead Indian Hawthorns referenced in #8 above.Directly behind the arbor and next to the garbage bins is a pile of dead leaves, branches, and...
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El Segundo
The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Make a Planter From an Old Chair
My niece Cassidy, was a willing model and enjoyed creating this frugal piece of garden art.The rusty patio chair was a forlorn little offering at a local estate sale. We settled the planter under the crape myrtle, where it gets filtered sunlight.
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El Segundo
Unorthodox Gardening Methods
Each is about 2 by 4 feet. Plan on planting 2 to 4 large plants or 4 to 6 small plants in each bale.Here's how I do it here in zone 6. As the potatoes continue growing, continue adding soil-compost mix until you reach the top of the container.After about...
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El Segundo
Missouri Botanical Garden: Garden Structure
In the evening, lights make the onions glow, a very different look when compared to daytime. Imagine the lilting tune from the little boy. It was late morning and the sunlight took away the color of the palm and made this shot look like a black and white...
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El Segundo
Use cattle panels to build an arched trellis & hoop house
We have seen the single panels used as arched trellises in the past, so this year we decided we could make a neater, stronger, and longer lasting arched trellis and hoop house using the panels.The following is a short slideshow video of last year's tomato...
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El Segundo
Sun Clocks: Interesting TIME In Your Garden!
We admire the beautifully ornate sundials in elaborate formal gardens, but it is not always apparent how to read them. Determine a sun clock design that best suits your needs, or the area you have to work with, and the size clock your budget and time...
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El Segundo
Garden Resolutions: Next Year I Shall...
How long will it take them to germinate? I could even buy vegetable plants and nobody would have to know.I spend a lot of time in the garden as it is, so how will I get all this additional work done?
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El Segundo
Garden Bling Bling - Garden Art
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 art. When you are out and about, you will find these things and you will want to take them home and plant in them.You might even have...
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El Segundo
Cantigny Gardens
Children are free to climb and play on the tanks.While the military museum is interesting and educational, this trip was dedicated to viewing the gardens. The garden has recently been expanded, and there are now many more shrub roses than I recall from...
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El Segundo
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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El Segundo
A No-Wa-Wa Fountain for Your Garden
Please scroll down to the form below. The term "no-wa-wa", perhaps a tad cutesy, originated several decades ago in a contest by Steve Gander, a local Iowa boy, who grew up to become one of the top rodeo event promoters in the U.S.
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El Segundo
Spring Poems
Late in the season, I begin to feel a part of it all, down to the very small.: "March 1" "Equinox" "April Fool's Song" "Spring Ahead" "A thousand little spiders" "The peepers sing" "May Breeze" "Ephemera"
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El Segundo
St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardeners
This was broadened to include all of gardening. The monastery grew fruits and vegetables to feed the hungry and cultivated herbs and flowers to use in healing the sick. His fictional counterpart is Brother Cadfael, the mystery-solving monk of the Ellis...
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El Segundo
Spring Cleaning in the Garden
Those piles of mushy leaves I will pick up by hand, cutting them short with my handy cutters. I'll only cut back the "overhang" though. Let me explain why I prefer the spring. All of those leaves and bits and pieces are mulch.
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El Segundo