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Garden Crafts: How-to Instructions For A Macrame\' Hanging Planter
You will have three groups of four cords. You can simply thread a bead through your cords and pull the carrier cords to the outside. In high school, I made quite a bit of money making custom macrame hangers for florists.
California
El Segundo
Bad luck with houseplants? Try lucky bamboo
Placed in your own vase or dish, with or without water, they're the cheapest luck money can buy. Four is not a good number as the Chinese word for four is similar to the word for death.) For what it's worth, a gift of Lucky Bamboo is luckier than buying...
California
El Segundo
A Grapevine Christmas Tree
A garden angel added just the right touch to the top of the tree.Special ornaments that I make each year are packets of seeds collected from my garden. My brain kicked into gear, and I began to ponder.
California
El Segundo
Warm and Cozy Buckwheat Seeds?
I tried them for awhile but I continued to shiver.From the north came the words: “Lots of exercise will warm you up.” I already run through my days like a spinning top, but I added to that, and all the time I continued to shiver.A friend from the...
California
El Segundo
My favorite, versatile, new gardening tool is my \
My smart phone has an awesome utility for keeping records, issuing reminders, and gathering information. The versatlity and fun of using my smart phone are making it an everyday tool in all my gardening endeavors.
California
El Segundo
Botanical Garden Plant Sales ~ A Shopping Frenzy for Gardeners!
The plantings also provide important research information for the horticultural staff at the gardens.An additional advantage of attending Plant Sales at Botanical Gardens is the option for visiting these display gardens while you're there.
California
El Segundo
Hummers at your window - a great gift idea!
I got the 12 ounce model. It's much too well-designed to discard.Our friends were truly amazed when they visited and were able to see the hummingbirds feeding or resting right at the window.
California
El Segundo
Party Favors From the Heart: African Violets and Handmade Containers
Sometimes friends would sit at the wheel next to me and contribute a pot to my cause and chat with me. This process is hot and arduous, especially in the summer in Texas but it added such character to the varied nature of my vessel collection.Once I had...
California
El Segundo
Gardening Gifts A to Z
That's garden dedication!- (of course!) A gardener without DG is like a butterfly without wings! If your green thumb friend hasn't heard of Dave's Garden, get her started with a newsletter and free membership.
California
El Segundo
Diana\'s Anise Biscotti
For this recipe, you don't have to use seeds at all, but they sure enhance the texture and flavor.iscotti is a treat your family will love and is very rewarding to make. Anise seed is also used as flavoring in baked goods, root beer, gum, candies and...
California
El Segundo
What the Gardener Gets for Christmas
If you've been gardening a few years, you probably have plenty and you got another one this year. The gift ones never do.Making fun of the same gifts we receive every year may reek of ingratitude.
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles For New Gardeners: Sempervirens tectorum, Hens and Chicks
These plant profiles will feature time-tested seeds and plants that are easy to grow, but produce a great show. Many new gardeners are starting to plan their first adventure into our crazy, wonderful world.
California
El Segundo
Gifts from and for Gardeners: How to Make a Discharge Printed Vest
It gives me a frame of reference as to how fast the bleach will start to work. Lay plastic down where you will be working. I then remove my flowers, pick up my garment, and carefully spray bleach on side seams and shoulders.
California
El Segundo
Handmade decorative paper with added flowers, seeds, leaves
If you added some long fibers (cotton linters) to the paper pulp in your tub, the wet sheets will be less fragile. (These extra sheets merely make it easy to get the wet, fragile sheets out of the frame.) Once I get the hang of the paper thickness I want,...
California
El Segundo
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Zinnias
Zinnias are cheerful summer annuals that our grandmothers loved. New gardeners can plant them with confidence that they will grow and bloom reliably and fast. The large, flat-topped varieties are the most attractive to butterflies, giving them the perfect...
California
El Segundo
Clay Critters for Plant Pots: A great kid craft for inside days
Tiny balls of green clay can be flattened onto either side of her head for eyes, and a teeny rolled snake of red clay will give her a mouth.You can either gently press the head directly onto the front of the body, or you can put another smaller ball of...
California
El Segundo
Just add water, Paperwhites bring a hint of spring
I'm lucky to be near a huge local nursery where I can pick my paperwhites, for about a dollar each, from hundreds in a bushel basket.allow you to choose from the common variety 'Ziva' or a few other cultivars.
California
El Segundo
Fish Farming: Is Aquaculture Right for Your Property?
“Aquaponics really started on a small, grassroots level,” says Janelle Hager, a research associate at Kentucky State University's Aquaculture Research Center. Research the topic further to determine feasibility for your region and personal situation.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Plant Profiles for New Gardeners: Daylilies
All you need to do is brush the pollen from the anthers of one flower to the tip of the stigma of another. They come in a wide range of shapes and colors and are hardy in a huge climate range.
California
El Segundo
Turn Your Property Into A Prairie
According to the National Park Service, prairies are home to up to 60 different species of grass, more than 300 species of forbs or flowers, and more than 100 species of lichens and liverworts, not to mention the woody plants, trees and shrubs found along...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Mark your calendars: Spring shopping!
Read on for some inspiration on how to plan you plant quests ahead of time.Plan and decide which plants you will need next spring and summer."Need" might be in quotations or you could actually have an open spot in your garden that is really in need of...
California
El Segundo
Cut Your Property Taxes
Christmas trees, firewood, saw timber or other forest products can be used to generate agricultural income from the land that may help qualify a small hobby farm for tax breaks. Property tax policies vary from state to state, so you'll need to do a little...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
Likewise, reinforcement is needed for any buttonholes in thin fabric to keep buttons from pulling off through the fabric. I used a sewing machine for nearly all the embellishments at first, but a friend's request for another harvest apron while my sewing...
California
El Segundo
Eminent Domain and Your Farm Property
But he tells property owners plainly not to expect additional monies for “pain and suffering” or other circumstances not directly related to the property value. Our food comes out of a box, we require instant computer connections, and we fall asleep...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Make Your Property a Farmcation Destination
After all the hard work, the ice cream tastes so much better.” There is a charge for the tour and classes, but she builds those into a farm-stay price package for guests. Libby is a dressage rider, not typically known to go roping cattle, but she learned...
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Understand A Property\'s Easements Before You Buy
For example, Farmer Bob owns the land and he gives Farmer Jill a driveway easement across his land so she can access hers. In the case of a driveway easement, you need to determine who is responsible for driveway maintenance: Bob or Jill.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Plants That Have Ink Properties
Of vinegar and a 1/2 tsp. Oak bark, the inner bark of the white birch and the bark of the Colorado fir all create tan to dark brown ink once crushed and added to water or vinegar. Use hyacinth flowers to make a blue ink.
California
Santa Monica