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Tater Totes: DIY fabric pots for potatoes & other plants
I am now using a double thickness of the landscape fabric material to make them more durable (just in case I need to pick them up to run with again).Viewer comments offered excellent ideas for reusing fabric feed sacks, recycled shopping bags, burlap...
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Dear Sheila (2), Groundbreaking time in your new veggie garden
Ask your kids! ) Since we're running last-minute on this garden, I'll take a guess that three pounds of lime this year will likely help, and not likely hurt, your soil. Come to think of it, if youand have never limed the lawn, you probably should, too.Gloves--...
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A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
You can buy it under various names, in small pre-cut sheets; in narrow 1/2-inch strips on a roll (like tape) for mending seams and hems or on bolts sold by the yard like fabric.Buttonholes can be made by using the fusible web to sandwich layers of fabric...
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Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
The miniature garden hobby is a rapidly growing subculture among garden enthusiasts. You can trim the long thick roots to a little less than the depth of your container and leave the small surface roots for anchoring your plant.
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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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A Day at Dave\'s Garden
I grew them myself last year. It is a miracle I can find anything.By then the dogs were whining to be taken out again. I've already started someunder the lights upstairs. There, sitting on the top of the monitor was a gigantic.
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V for Victory - Victory Garden That Is!
Until that time, he still planted it to remember those who never came home and honor the bravery of those who did.The war department told people to plant the following vegetables in their home gardens: beans, beets, carrots, peas, radishes, lettuce,spinach,...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part I
They weed, water and generally tend to the garden during the growing season. Community gardens come in all shapes and sizes. They erect various type of fencing to keep the “critters” out and install different types of garden art in their plots.Water...
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Create a Small Water Garden
Up until now, the Frugal Gardener series has concentrated on projects and tips that cost very little or nothing at all. The more area that is covered by foliage, means less sunlight to feed algae.There is also a commercial product made from barley straw...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part IV
I estimate the garden is about 2 acres in size are divided in plots that are about 20X10 feet in size. I stop and visit this garden several time a season we communicate with a wave and a smile.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part III
The old Michigan Central train station can be seen from the garden.Very little is thrown away, cut logs are used to borderThese 5 city lots produce organic vegetables, berries, honey and a tree nursery to provide shade trees for members.
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Making a zen garden: Your garden is your spa
Then there is the material you are going to use for the frame to keep your sand in. It means simple, classic elegant beauty. There are seven principles of a zen garden. As for the rocks, you need a minimum of three.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part II
The monies are used to purchase equipment for the garden. The garden is used by students for research as well as local residents to grow organic vegetables and flowers.Welcome to the Uof M Dearborn Organic Community Garden.Recycled good are used throughout...
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Container Gardening to The max
Eventually they broke down and rotted, but for a few seasons they wereWhat I'm trying to say is that there are no rules to container gardening. It had a drain so water could escape if it rained too hard.
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Promises, Promises: My Gardening Resolutions
The result: more died.Maybe I'm not fit to grow orchids, I don't know. So it looks like the "beer fridge" in our garage is about to expand its usefulness. I rarely update it these days.
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Make a Planter From an Old Chair
The air grinder with a cut-off wheel was available, but as rusty as this chair was, it wasn't entirely necessary. Measure your container before you get started, to make sure it works!Coffee filters make a good cover for the drainage hole.
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Unorthodox Gardening Methods
I've been doing it for a number of years and I find it to be a fun, productive way to grow "things." When I say "things," I mean you can grow almost anything in a strawbale that you can grow in a conventional way.In my particular case I have a couple...
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Garden Structure
Adding small surprises, a decorative fence or even a large stone will give your garden personality!No visit to the Missouri Botanical Garden is complete without lunch on The stone draws your eye down the slope, tempting you to wander to the next path.It...
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Use cattle panels to build an arched trellis & hoop house
NOTE: There are various types (grades) of fencing panel units, and different styles along with a wide price range. Have a great garden season! Every site and situation will be different.
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Sun Clocks: Interesting TIME In Your Garden!
Sun clocks, or sundials, can be found all over the world. 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.
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Garden Resolutions: Next Year I Shall...
Cheaters, every one! I didn't even know you could buy cucumber plants. Gaillardia attracts butterflies. 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...
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Garden Bling Bling - Garden Art
But how do we know when the art stops and the shock-your-family-get-you-in-a-nut-house art starts? This might be a stove, fridge, sink, toilet, heater, scrap lumber, or bathtub. Over all, what matters here is not the object but rather the way it is put...
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Cantigny Gardens
The grounds are also the home of the official First Division Museum, and the lawn in front of the museum building is used to display over a dozen armored tanks from WWI and later periods.
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Wit and Wisdom: Gardening Commentary Through the Ages
I've arranged them in categories, with each category representing some basic aspect of gardening.Questions? By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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A No-Wa-Wa Fountain for Your Garden
In 1986, Gander came up with the novel idea of staging the world's biggest beach party in one of his pastures near landlocked Williamsburg, Iowa.He trucked in tons and tons of sand, set up a mechanical surfboard, hired well-known rock bands from the 50s...
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Spring Poems
Spring can start slow here, snow lingers and the wind blows chill sometimes well into May. 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"...
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St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardeners
His shrine at Breuil is still a destination for pilgrims seeking relief from ailments. Some sources list it as August 31, others as Sept. Fiacre's feast day is a matter of debate. This was broadened to include all of gardening.
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