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School- and community-garden leaders can enter the Burpee "I Can Grow” contest for a chance to win plants and gardening supplies to boost their operation. All entries must be postmarked by Friday, Dec.

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...

Thankfully, next year's list will be smaller. (If we're not prepared for wind, we'll look like a scene fromchasing flying paper sheets across the yard. The list above might total to $60 or thereabouts.

And I needed one quickly!I finally settled on an inexpensive white cotton chef's apron, with patch pockets already sewn in place as a starting point for what I wanted. Including notepads, pens, and small 3-foot tape measures would be great items to consider...

Sometimes "less is more," so do not try to use everything you have collected in one container. I just have to remember to bring them indoors once the temperatures start dropping below 50 degrees at night.Inspect your plants for critters, yard litter,...

The bleaching step is unnecessary, but may be of benefit if you plan to sell your luffa sponges. The large leaves are 3 to 5 lobed. If the sponge is splotchy, or too dark for your liking, you can whiten it (like the commercial products) with a mild 10%...

Some of the forums are subscriber only, but the information available, and the friendships that can be formed are well worth the price. Theneeded taking out, so I turned on the coffee and headed out the door.

Finding the old photo and hearing my grandfather's sweet memories of the victory garden and the brothers and cousins they had planted it in honor of, I knew that I needed to learn more.The idea to plant a garden and make every yard work for the nation...

Produce raised in the community garden is donated to area food pantries to help feed the disadvantaged. Located in a large city park, this garden has evolved into a huge success in just a few short years.

$30 for the kettle, $18 for my plants, $7 for the mosquito dunks (which will be enough for the whole season) and $6 for the sealer if I decide to reimburse my husband. This Saturday feature will spotlight projects gardeners can create for inexpensive...

The fourth in my series on community gardens will be more of a pictorial than verbal. I estimate the garden is about 2 acres in size are divided in plots that are about 20X10 feet in size.

An idea was born: let's teach many of the residents how to grow their own produce in an urban setting.Several organizations banded together to establish a number of programs to train and support residents with plants, tools and gardening advice.In 2004...

That is an example of Koko.There is one last thing you can add to your zen garden if you find a bit more green pleasing and calming. Bends, corners, and shadows keep you looking and wondering what's there.This principle is one that I think we all strive...

Located on the banks of the Rouge River it offers hands on opportunities for students to study aquatic life, botany, forestry, ornithology and other environmental related subjects.Mr. Ford's wife Clara was an avid gardener.

You may be surprised at the beauty you can create. Later I wandered out to take another look at it and discovered Mom had taken advantage of the hollowness and planted a few plants.

Adjacent to the arbor are the three now-dead Indian Hawthorns referenced in #8 above.Directly behind the arbor and next to the garbage bins is a pile of dead leaves, branches, and weeds that I'm afraid to touch because, even worse than the inevitable...

The hens and chicks originally came from DG member and dear friend, 'Yardbird' nearly a decade ago.Cassidy is arranging the plants in their new home, making sure to leave room for their eventual growth.

Give SBG a try; once you try it you'll be hooked, too.This is a fun project, especially if you get children involved. Each is about 2 by 4 feet. If using transplants use a garden trowel to open a planting hole.

In the evening, lights make the onions glow, a very different look when compared to daytime. Despite many other visitors to the building, this area is very serene and private. It is a wonderful example of color that can be included in a garden with materials...

They may also work for the cattle panels!The anchors help hold the angle in place when the cattle panel ends are flexed into position between the two pieces of angle.Wire ties were used to connect and hold the sides of the cattle panels together, which...

You need something that drains well, doesn't compact, and isn't too saturated with nutrients – which rules out garden mixes and soil directly from the ground.You can find mixes at your garden center specifically designed for container gardening.

This special monthly positioning causes the human shadow to fall more closely on the appropriate hour mark in "solar time."But, what about Daylight Savings Time (DST)? This article will discuss the sun clocks you can set up with free information available...

Any gardener might put that on his list, particularly if he spent too much money on established plants this year. Of course, no co-worker had carrots, so this year wasn't a total loss.

The more of these in your art collection the more dire the situation. Likewise, if you are in the area and people stop, thinking you have a yard art store, you have way too much garden art.

Its beds hold over a thousandbushes of 55 varieties, grouped according to their flowering habit — Floribunda, Hybrid Tea, etc. Water flows from a fountain in the garden's center, and benches sit in the shade beneath the 130 foot pergola, which is not,...

I enjoy hearing from my readers!All images are courtesy of Wikimedia unless otherwise indicated. 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...

The term "no-wa-wa", perhaps a tad cutesy, originated several decades ago in a contest by Steve Gander, a local Iowa boy, who grew up to become one of the top rodeo event promoters in the U.S.