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Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
Fantasy gardens (whereis not as important) are designed to entice fairies, elves, gnomes, and trolls to live in the little gardens, and are very popular with all age groups.I hope to introduce miniature container gardening to those not familiar with the...
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For the Love of Luffa, or is it Loufah?
Space hills 6 to 8 feet apart with tall, sturdy trellis for support of the heavy fruit (dead trees make good supports).The luffa requires a long growing season from 120 to 180 days.
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El Segundo
A Day at Dave\'s Garden
I should have started someand missed the right time for sowing those. There is plenty to keep us busy and you may just find something you've been missing! Good grief! There is water flowing under the door.
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V for Victory - Victory Garden That Is!
In the last few years people around the nation have started to care more about what they eat and less about buying foods for quick consumption. In the aftermath of the war, people stopped the victory gardens and went back to buying their produce from...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part I
The Goodwill Garden in Taylor, Michigan has to be one of my all time favorite community gardens. At the beginning of the growing season the plots are roto-tilled and turned over to the residents.
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Create a Small Water Garden
(maybe he won't notice...) The sandpaper, pea gravel, alcohol and extra spray paint, I had on hand. This Saturday feature will spotlight projects gardeners can create for inexpensive garden art and gifts.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part IV
I have made many attempts to find someone to translate for me with no success. They have the seeds, plants and most importantly the knowledge they have brought from their native land.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part III
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 overwhelming success.
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Making a zen garden: Your garden is your spa
Simplicity equals truth and cleanliness; that makes sense for a calming, serene space.This is basically the idea that things get better with age. Have you ever been in a garden and said, "This is so magical!"?
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part II
The work sessions are capped off with a pot luck picnic and socializing.Common areas are maintained by all the gardeners once a monthA gazebo provides a break area and location for monthly pot luck lunches.Another important aspect of this garden is teaching...
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Container Gardening to The max
It had a drain so water could escape if it rained too hard. A pair of old western boots that once belonged to my Dad. Half barrels, window boxes, etc. It was very refreshing,submerging oneself in the ice cold water long enough to cool down.
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Promises, Promises: My Gardening Resolutions
Growing vegetables from seed never scared me, but flowers? (It didn't, but let's not blame the mint.)This is a big one, and a resolution I seem to make every year without following through.My favorite shovels often get put away muddy.
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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. The air grinder with a cut-off wheel was available, but as rusty as this chair was,...
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Unorthodox Gardening Methods
Keep the container well watered.Soon you will see little stems pop through the soil. Tip: If you need a wider row for larger vegetables like squash, remove a plank.Use a marker to identify the plants in each row and when you planted.Water.
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Garden Structure
During my visit today with my good friend Beth, I decided to focus on garden structures and art. We sat here for quite awhile. Despite many other visitors to the building, this area is very serene and private.
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Use cattle panels to build an arched trellis & hoop house
I was hoping for a similar experience with my tomatoes and beans.The dimensions of the sections of re-mesh we used were very close to the dimensions of cattle panels, rigid fencing-type sections, sold at farm supply and feed stores.
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El Segundo
Sun Clocks: Interesting TIME In Your Garden!
The interactive analemmatic "human" sun clock is the focus for my needs, but others will be listed for you to create a sun clock to suit the amount of space in your yard. Consider scheduling preliminary workdays to make and customize component features...
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Garden Resolutions: Next Year I Shall...
How long will it take them to germinate? Maybe I won't have to endure their pitying, knowing smiles. Maybe this item should come off the list just to spite the ones that can't take it.This year I went to the University's Horticulture Club sale and the...
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Garden Bling Bling - Garden Art
The more of these in your art collection the more dire the situation. The more time you have to spend taking in and out the season's worth of art, the more time you are taking from the garden and that, my friends, is a sad thing indeed.Only you can say...
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Cantigny Gardens
Its beds hold over a thousandbushes of 55 varieties, grouped according to their flowering habit — Floribunda, Hybrid Tea, etc. The day I visited, the garden featured topiary dinosaurs,, a sensory garden, and a small pond with miniatureand a tiny bridge.
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Wit and Wisdom: Gardening Commentary Through the Ages
You can access additional quotes Please scroll down to the form below. Thanks to Catherine Ursula Johnson for the wilted flower photo.If you enjoy gardening-related quotes, check out the daily fun random quote on the DG home page.
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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
That doesn't stop the birds from singing and the grass from greening, or me from putting it all into words. 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...
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St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardeners
Faro told him he could have as much land as he could entrench in one day. People began referring to these small hackney carriages as “Fiacre cabs”, and then just “fiacres”.
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Spring Cleaning in the Garden
When they reach the top of their support and start hanging back down over themselves, I'll go and cut them back after they have flowered. The wind tends to blow away any protective blanket of leaves and snow.
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Onions and Potatoes Grown in a Small Garden
They just sold the house and rented the land to other people living there, to use it for growing cereals or whatever they would want to grow. I dug up the land, weeded and raked, then planted pieces of sprouted potatoes.
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El Segundo
Strawbale Gardening: Why and How
It may not seem obvious at first, but there are some definiate advantages of using this method:Bales are easier to work with, since your garden is immediately elevated instead of planting directly into the soil.
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