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A Quick & Easy Harvest Apron
Kids can embellish an apron for the special gardeners in their lives with the myriad of craft resources available, like finger paints, permanent markers, tie-dye, iron-on patches, or transfer pictures.The aprons are good throughout the planting, growing,...
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Miniature Container Gardens Provide Indoor-Outdoor Fun
Critters just do not play well with miniature gardens!Most of my indoor plants do well in the dappled shade of my back yard during the summer months, so I can enjoy them all year. Check the view of your miniature garden from various angles and make changes...
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For the Love of Luffa, or is it Loufah?
The longer the gourd has to grow, the larger, stronger, and stiffer the sponge pulp becomes when dried. Place the sponge out to dry in the sun for storage, or start using them immediately.If you cut your straightest luffa gourds lengthwise into strips,...
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A Day at Dave\'s Garden
Spend a day with me here at Dave's Garden. Theall needed a drink, but the plumber had the water turned off. Some of the forums are subscriber only, but the information available, and the friendships that can be formed are well worth the price.
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V for Victory - Victory Garden That Is!
There is hope that people will once again take the advice of the World War Two War Department and plant a garden to feed themselves and their families. Finding the old photo and hearing my grandfather's sweet memories of the victory garden and the brothers...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part I
Produce raised in the community garden is donated to area food pantries to help feed the disadvantaged. They can grow whatever they wish be it flowers, vegetables or both. They each serve their own purpose and they each have their own personality.
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Create a Small Water Garden
I waited 24 hours before filling my container with water to make sure that my sealer had time to properly cure. I purchased a packet of mosquito dunks and per the instructions, 1/4 of a dunk will protect my garden for a month.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part IV
The reason being no one in this garden speaks English. One thing that I found very interesting, I didn't see on tomato plant in these gardens.Rice and other bog plants Fallow ground is covered until the next plantingThe path ways are covered with discarded...
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part III
Community organizating and how to go about obtaining vacant parcels of land. It stands in the middle of urban Detroit. Some of them have branched and are providing nutritional programs for children.The kids are taught how to grow fruits and vegetables...
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Making a zen garden: Your garden is your spa
You will need sand. These are very important to your design. Then there is the material you are going to use for the frame to keep your sand in. You need enough sand for your area to be 2 inches deep.
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Community Gardens Different in their own Unique Ways, Part II
An area is set aside just for kids to grow tend and harvest vegetables just like the grownups.A garden like this is an excellent example where you can still have a “wild” area among the urban sprawl.
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Container Gardening to The max
We've all used the normal containers for plants. Another excellent example of what can be done with a little imagination and a few plants.Every gardener has an old wheel barrow hanging around.
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Promises, Promises: My Gardening Resolutions
I'm still not sure how I'm going to organize them, though. Once clean, store the tool by plunging it blade-side down into the oily sand to prevent rusting. My pruners invariably get dull and rusty.
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The Frugal Gardener: Money Saving Projects and Tips; How to Make a Planter From an Old Chair
This attractive little planter was created from a $1 chair, some pass along plants and an old terracotta flowerpot. Things are starting to shape up and the little frugal planter is beginning to materialize.Some of my succulents needed dividing and there...
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Unorthodox Gardening Methods
The choice is up to you plant whatever your heart desires.One thing that surprised me as I did some research for this article is that strawbale gardening is said to date back to the ancient Egyptians and Aztecs who used it as a way of growing plants in...
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Missouri Botanical Garden: Garden Structure
We sat here for quite awhile. Small touches in the home garden often make the difference between a nice garden and a garden with real character, never lacking at MoBot.This palm is striking against the geometric patterns of the Climatron.
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Use cattle panels to build an arched trellis & hoop house
I experimented with an arched trellis made with concrete re-mesh wire and metal fence posts for my tomatoes and pole beans last year. The basics of the structure are that the cattle panels are rigid, strong, but flex just enough to lend themselves to...
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Sun Clocks: Interesting TIME In Your Garden!
The more simplistic traditional sundials sold in garden centers do not tell time all that well (to me), but serve as a decorative reminder of a bygone era.I spent weeks searching through math-ladden web sites looking for a simple design, custom template,...
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Garden Resolutions: Next Year I Shall...
I could even buy vegetable plants and nobody would have to know.I spend a lot of time in the garden as it is, so how will I get all this additional work done? I know my limits, so if I don't stop watering until well into July, it will be an improvement.
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Garden Bling Bling - Garden Art
The more of these in your art collection the more dire the situation. So when do you know you have too many? If you keep the bulk of your garden art in the flower beds, you are most likely okay.If you still have more plants than art, see above.
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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. There are camping and picnic areas, and the museum also sponsors occasional historical war reenactments on the grounds.The...
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Wit and Wisdom: Gardening Commentary Through the Ages
They are also often used to support, oppose or present an entirely different view of a situation in a humorous light or pridefully used in an attempt to bolster one's credentials as to being knowledgeable."--Yahoo AnswersI'd like to share with you some...
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A No-Wa-Wa Fountain for Your Garden
If you'd like to order one, here are some current suppliers:These items are available at home improvement stores and hardware stores. What is a "no-wa-wa" fountain? The term "no-wa-wa", perhaps a tad cutesy, originated several decades ago in a contest...
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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. Spring can start slow here, snow lingers and the wind blows chill sometimes well into May.
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St. Fiacre, Patron Saint of Gardeners
As he earned fame for his knowledge of plants and healing abilities, disciples flocked to him. Exclusion of women, however, was the rule rather than the exception in monasteries of the time.As word of Fiacre's miracle spread, people began flocking to...
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Spring Cleaning in the Garden
I'll pick up old fern fronds, cut back the chrysanthemums, pick up any branches that blew off of the trees during the winter.Spring cleaning of the garden should be relaxing. When they reach the top of their support and start hanging back down over themselves,...
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Onions and Potatoes Grown in a Small Garden
Nevertheless, they grew up nicely and we ate a bucket of potatoes from a few hills.Last year, I thought I should grow more vegetables and wantedfor our vegetables garden. I even found one potato with a weed root inside it.
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