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Dear Sheila (2), Groundbreaking time in your new veggie garden
Planting and caring for the new veggies will be more rewarding, I promise. Let's lay the newspaper about ten sheets thick, and more if we have enough paper. And we'll put a folded section smack on the spot for each tomato plant, the cukes and the squash...
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A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
And I needed one quickly!I finally settled on an inexpensive white cotton chef's apron, with patch pockets already sewn in place as a starting point for what I wanted. Use your imagination to create your own unique harvest aprons, using what you have...
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El Segundo
Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
Structures and tiny embellishments designed for dollhouses and model railroads are commonly used in miniature garden themes. This is useful for plants that have the same light requirements, but different water and soil conditions.
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For the Love of Luffa, or is it Loufah?
It does well in warm climates and is semi-drought tolerant after established, but may need a little moisture during hot spells. Pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf0604790 4 Dec 2008Dr. Albert L.
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A Day at Dave\'s Garden
I've got the wallpaper torn off and am re-doing theare all covered in sheets. It occured to me that I should probably hire aare in need of reworking. Waiting for the photos to load I began to look around me.
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V for Victory - Victory Garden That Is!
Finding the old photo and hearing my grandfather's sweet memories of the victory garden and the brothers and cousins they had planted it in honor of, I knew that I needed to learn more.The idea to plant a garden and make every yard work for the nation...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part I
From that point on it's the resident's responsibility to maintain their plots throughout the summer. I want to show you a few of my favorites in this series. They weed, water and generally tend to the garden during the growing season.
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Create a Small Water Garden
I purchased a packet of mosquito dunks and per the instructions, 1/4 of a dunk will protect my garden for a month. In the next week or so, I'll probably add another plant or two to reduce the amount of surface water exposed to the sun.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part IV
Many of their crops are greens of one type or another along with a variety of hot peppers. I estimate the garden is about 2 acres in size are divided in plots that are about 20X10 feet in size.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part III
The program would be similar to the Master Gardener program, but would also cover grant writing, procedures to test soil for toxic substances. This location is actually the second spot this garden has been located.
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Making a zen garden: Your garden is your spa
All of the most beautiful parts should be able to be seen from your place. Zen gardens require no water, minimal plants, but can rejuvenate your soul. Five and seven are also asymmetrical numbers that would be pleasant.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part II
Located on the banks of the Rouge River it offers hands on opportunities for students to study aquatic life, botany, forestry, ornithology and other environmental related subjects.Mr. Ford's wife Clara was an avid gardener.
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Container Gardening to The max
We upgrade to newer, better designed models but don't have the heart to part with the older versions. 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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Promises, Promises: My Gardening Resolutions
I will update my online garden journal more often.for several years, but I use the term "kept" loosely. I will not mourn the loss of the three Indian Hawthorn bushes that were moved to the side yard.My landscaper warned me these lovely shrubs may not...
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El Segundo
The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Make a Planter From an Old Chair
Members and subscribers alike, gather there to display and discuss their delightful plunder from curbsides, barns and tag sales. The most expensive item in the whole project was the bag of potting mix.
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Unorthodox Gardening Methods
You can adjust your timing to fit your USDA zone.Around April 1, I purchase my bales and place them in their permanent locations for the season in full sun. Fill the container about one-third full with a 50/50 mixture of garden soil and compost.Cut seed...
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Garden Structure
It is a wonderful example of color that can be included in a garden with materials other than plants. During my visit today with my good friend Beth, I decided to focus on garden structures and art.
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Use cattle panels to build an arched trellis & hoop house
This meant digging out a little more in some places, or shimming with bricks in others.The angle pieces were anchored in place with the "L"-shaped rebar driven through holes burned through the angle sides.In this close up of one of the anchors, you can...
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El Segundo
Sun Clocks: Interesting TIME In Your Garden!
Sun clocks, or sundials, can be found all over the world. Print the photograph as large as you can, write notes, information, and sketch your preliminary design plan. An analemmatic sun clock takes the time of year into account by having the human "gnomon"...
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Garden Resolutions: Next Year I Shall...
When composing next year's resolutions, it behooves one to remember the Rule. Gaillardia attracts butterflies. I dislike watering. I'm terribly allergic to bumblebee stings. What matters is that I am no cheater!Everything.
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Garden Bling Bling - Garden Art
The real key here is to leave at least a few good sized areas for grass to grow without anything else.This helps you and it keeps the local neighbors from giving you the stare.When you start to remodel, or are just driving by and you pick up what others...
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Cantigny Gardens
Benches invite visitors to relax and enjoy the displays. 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...
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Wit and Wisdom: Gardening Commentary Through the Ages
You can access additional quotes 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...
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A No-Wa-Wa Fountain for Your Garden
Pea gravel is also available at garden centers.New or used pedestal birdbath with a fairly deep bowl (3.5" or more): New ones are available at garden centers and home improvement stores.
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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
His fictional counterpart is Brother Cadfael, the mystery-solving monk of the Ellis Peters novels. Born in Ireland in the 7th century, Fiacre was raised in a monastery. Thus their drivers took on St. Fiacre as their patron and protector.Fiacre is depicted...
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Spring Cleaning in the Garden
My gardens, well, my yard, is flat and open to the elements. I take my cutters and snip off the old dead stalks. It isn't a "chore", it is a way to ease ourselves gently back to the land after a winter of staring out the window and dreaming.
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