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Any single plant can be the focus of your garden scene, like a bonsai for example.Experiment with your tropical houseplants by dividing them into separate pots with half as many plants (or less).

The fruit averages (depending on variety) 24 inches long and up to 3 1/2 inches in diameter. You may have several gourds at various stages of maturity, thus more potential uses for your harvest.There are several methods used to remove the outer shell...

Spend a day with me here at Dave's Garden. Saving seeds leads tohelped me battle this long winter induced cabin fever I've been suffering lately.! I even have a spot picked out. It is a miracle I can find anything.By then the dogs were whining to be taken...

The story I am told is that this photo was taken on the day they planted their first WWII victory garden. I had never heard of victory gardens before I came across this old photo of my great-grandfather with my grandfather and his brother.

Many who live in condos, apartments or have home with small yards need someplace to grow things and the Goodwill Garden gives them a place to do this.For a small fee residents can rent a plot for their own personal gardens.

I purchased a packet of mosquito dunks and per the instructions, 1/4 of a dunk will protect my garden for a month. I didn't spray it solid, I just hit the worst spots and let some of the natural patina show through.My plants were in small containers from...

In my many visits to this garden I don't think I've seen anyone younger than 70 years old in this garden, yet these are some of the most immaculate that I have ever seen, not a weed in site.

The garden has two sections, one to provide members their own produce and a “community” section which supplies fresh produce to a food depot.Several bee hives are in the garden for honey productionMany of the ash trees were lost to the Emerald Ash...

The Zen garden needs to be clean, manicured and weed-free. All of the most beautiful parts should be able to be seen from your place. Zen teaches that you gain enlightenment and experience realization through meditation and intuition.

His mansion Fairlane is ¼ mile east of the garden. It's located on property that was Henry Ford's home. The monies are used to purchase equipment for the garden. There are 2 tool sheds located on site for tools and other equipment.

We've all used the normal containers for plants. Watering troughs, sinks, an old boat(yes, I really did), the only limit being your imagination.The man up the road cut a tree down one time that was hollow.

I do like them...but they don't seem to like me.5. I will be more involved in caring for my two community garden plots.Thank goodness for my wonderful fellow community gardeners who regularly visit our local site and take care of whatever needs done -...

The most expensive item in the whole project was the bag of potting mix. Even though these are succulents, capable of surviving with very little moisture, new transplants need water until the roots are established.Clean-up is important and a quick blast...

Again water well and keep well watered.I fertilizer my bales every 2 weeks with a balanced water soluble fertilizer (20-20-20). If it has cooled down to less than your body temperature you may safely begin planting as soon as all danger of frost has passed.You...

It is a wonderful example of color that can be included in a garden with materials other than plants. Plants are the main reason to visit, but today I'd like to share some of my favorite places at the Missouri Botanical Garden.

The kids could easily pick the cukes as they hung down on the inside of the little structure. The basics of the structure are that the cattle panels are rigid, strong, but flex just enough to lend themselves to be used in this fashion.

They can also be painted onto asphalt and concrete pavements (see sidebar photos at right).by entering your zipcode from one of the following:- small printable analemmatic template for a child's project; could be used to help layout hour marks for a larger...

Next year, I won't let them stop me. Gaillardia attracts butterflies. The dahlias turned black with the first frost, and now are safely tucked away for winter in a cool spot in the basement.

Key number one is, when the plants still outnumber the art, you are in the okay zone. 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...

Although there are many paths, people are free to wander across the grass and take a closer look at the flower beds or shrubs. 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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What is a "no-wa-wa" fountain? 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...

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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They will help keep the soil moist in dry weather. Once the ground is dry enough that you don't leave sunken footprints everywhere you step. When they reach the top of their support and start hanging back down over themselves, I'll go and cut them back...

That motivated me to want to grow more, ina bigger area. The soil must be lightly fertilized. I planted yellow onion sets in April and by the end of July they were already grown. I even found one potato with a weed root inside it.

Folks are very intrested in it, and once they try it, they are hooked.The first step is to obtain your bales, and set them in their permanet location. For the past couple of years I have used urea with excellent results.Approximately two weeks before...