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This will be your ironing board cover. This homemade ironing board is portable and perfect for the job. Don't staple too close the corners yet. Pull up one side of the fabric up and into place, covering the under layers and at the same time.

If you create the right microclimate inside your mini greenhouse, you can grow nearly anything. Homemade mini greenhouses may be as simple as a greenhouse flat fitted with a makeshift wire frame, pushed into a turkey bag and sealed tightly.Mini greenhouses...

Meanwhile, I'm reminded of the importance of incidental conversations at trade shows and elsewhere. If he does suggest replacing the unit, I'll be a slightly more informed buyer, thanks to a recent conversation I had at the Sioux Falls Farm Show.

Joe Devlin sat in front of me because if he had sat behind me he would have put chewing gum in my hair, as he had done on more than one occasion.I calmly watched the bee sting happen.

On Saturday, though, we had a grand time driving a golf cart up and down the aisles of a local nursery, choosing some new plants for the gardens we plan to build around the patio and above and below the retaining wall.

Place the pot in the sink and run water over it until the liquid starts to drip out the drain holes in the bottom of the pot. Wear gloves to protect your hands from the sharp thorns.

Read more of Locavore Recipes » Tags corn bread , Hungry Locavore , Judith Hausman , locavore , pesto Photo by Judith Hausman Well, it's happened again. Here are 10 items I'm pushing to use up.

Three little girls watched with wide eyes. However, about a month ago, mom called me."Guess what I made...", she said with a bit of joy and teasing in her voice.I guessed a few of her specialties: "Pumpkin Cookies?" "Mincemeat?" "Rice Pudding with Raisins?"...

If you stick your finger in the pot and the soil is dry an inch down, you need to water. Most houseplant pesticides will work fine for insects on mini rose plants.Fertilize mini indoor roses with the same fertilizer you use on outdoor roses.

« More Shop Talk » A new set of hydraulic cylinders for my ATV-mounted loader showed up on my doorstep today. Depending on the size of the pump and the load it is bearing, hydraulic fluid can be under thousands of pounds of pressure.

Alvaro This beautiful little melon is one of the first to mature each season. Early Silver Line This Korean introduction matures in 75 days. Get more small-space gardening tips: 14 Container Plants for Your Container Garden 5 Small-Space Irrigation Options...

Provide adequate drainage by covering the drainage holes with pebbles or broken shards from clay pots.Grow on a sunny windowsill. The bottom of the pot should rest above the water level.

Because I'm the only one in my house who likes to eat them, a full-sized winter squash is more than I can eat in one meal. The flesh of the fruit is very dark orange, and it has a smooth texture when cooked.

I was on a roll!If you have never heard of single-serving cantaloupe, they are baseball to softball-sized melons that are just perfect for one person to eat in their entirety at one sitting.

Therefore, it should be well-aged or composted prior to use. Composting steer manure is easily accomplished and similar to other methods. Steer manure can be added to and mixed thoroughly with the compost pile to create a suitable fertilizer for the lawn...

The same goes for any plants treated with non-organic pesticides. Sawdust Sawdust can be a valuable carbon-rich input, but unless you know that the sawdust came from untreated lumber, avoid putting it in your bin.

Animals need a warm place to get out of wind, snow and rain, so if your barn needs repairs, do them now. Remember that animals need extra bedding to snuggle into; a deep bed of clean straw is best for winter use.

The local craft supplier may even have an appropriate tiny artificial bird to occupy your birdhouse.. These can be scrubbed off.After playing with the gourds, and reserving the best spinners for the kids, consider other decorative possibilities:Organic...

I decided on a sturdy cake pan and two loaf pans with tall lids that would make great mini greenhouses. Now, I soak the seeds in the pans, use the lid to hold the seeds/sprouts in place as I pour rinse water into the sink, and can keep the lid out of...

I'd been getting their brochures with my gardening catalogues for years. They'll be delighted to send you a video and brochure. We'd had a soaking rain a couple days earlier, so the soil was perfect for tilling! I carried my tiller to the garden, trailing...

It's also fun to let new information inspire a tangent. Or a beetle that is making itself at home in your blackberries. What did you notice that was new or that you were unaware of before?

I am taking a 'skinnied-down' approach of the method I used when purchasing million dollar software in my pre-retirement job. There are several at. They have another product, Realtime Landscaping PLUS that, according to a contact from the company, is...

Not everyone has room to grow tomato plants, especially large ones. These not only take up less space since they're well suited to containers, but they're quite tasty. That's all there is to it.

There are three kinds of miniature livestock: Naturally tiny breeds that evolved as small animals to better survive the conditions nature handed them. If you want to raise miniature livestock, there are plenty of species and breeds to choose from.

They also lick visitors who come to see them. In the Swiss combats de reines (“ queen fights “), Eringer cows have been doing it since 1923. And they're affectionate too—just ask my mom and dad—at least as affectionate as horses.

Don't ask me why we decided to take on re-carpeting the house before Christmas (as if the holidays weren't hectic enough!). Don't even get me started on our outside farm stuff. There's stuff we needed (a light to read by), stuff we didn't need but wanted...

So they sent three nice people from the Barkley ad agency in Kansas City, Mo., all the way here to make a mini-documentary about us. That's Uzzi and me posing with (from left to right) Josh Dubois, Dustin Schirer, Mom and Blair Vance.