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How To Grow Asparagus

There is nothing like having fresh asparagus from your own garden! Asparagus is just one of those crops tha...

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How to build a Whiskey Barrel Garden in an hour

Perfect for patios and small spaces, here are some tips for planning and building a container garden from an old...

Clipped on May 08, 2013

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Make your own Potting Mix

I rarely buy bags of potting soil from the garden center...I just make my own using a few simple ingredients. #garden...

Clipped on May 06, 2013

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If at first you don't succeed...

Despite your best intentions, sometimes the first plantings of spring don't turn out quite right. So you experimented...

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Container Gardening

Some of my 2012 Containers.

Clipped on May 03, 2013

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Square foot vegetable garden, my first attempt!

I just decided since I retired this year I would try my 3 years of horticulture from college on a square foot garden plot! I st...

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Clipped on Apr 30, 2013

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Using Coffee Grounds as a Medium and How to take Cut...

It has been said that using coffee grounds as a planting medium leads to good results. So I decided to try it. An...

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Herb Planter April 2013

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How to Create an Easy Raised Garden Bed

I've never used a saw before, so when I wanted raised garden beds for my backyard, I purchased two homestead ra...

Clipped on Apr 30, 2013

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How To Make and Give Your Own Seed Tapes for the Gar...

You can give these pretty seed tapes as a favor or make them for your own garden. It's a fun and inexpensive projec...

Clipped on Apr 30, 2013

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How to Build a Composting System from Pallets

After seeing countless photos of these systems on Pinterest and in the blogosphere, we finally got around to ma...

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6 Common Gardening Mistakes & Solutions

If you're ready to get your hands dirty, be sure to avoid making these common mistakes to ensure that your garden is in...

Clipped on Apr 28, 2013

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Did the Slugs/Snails Enjoy Eating Up Your Garden Last...

Here's a simple and environmentally friendly way to get rid of them, and you probably have it in your frig right now. It'...

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Why you should plant Magnolia grandiflora "Little G...

Because the blossoms smell as good as this one looks. Plus, it's hardy from Long Island to South Florida. Plus, it has...

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My garden's got the blues (and purples)

I am loving all the blues and purples going in my garden right now. As temperatures quickly heat up in Florida, I...

Clipped on Apr 20, 2013

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My spring garden

My garden has come alive this spring. And the hummingbirds are back too.

Clipped on Apr 20, 2013

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How to cut Herbs

Now that Spring is in the air I thought I would share a post on how to cut your herbs properly so you can create nice fu...

Clipped on Apr 20, 2013

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ALL ABOUT PEPPERS...How To Grow A...

Take a stroll down the produce aisle at your local grocery store and you will quickly notice that peppers have grown i...

Clipped on Apr 17, 2013

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Make a salsa garden

We love salsa, like we could eat chips and salsa with every meal. So, we just moved into a new house with a fuky rais...

Clipped on Apr 17, 2013

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Make Your Garden Stand Out With A Colour Theme

Here's an example of how colour - in this case bright blue - has been used throughout a garden to give it a unified a...

Clipped on Apr 17, 2013

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Tips for Applying Mulch!

We will have 3 yards of mushroom compost delivered this week. When I begin filling my first wheelbarrow, I will thi...

Clipped on Apr 09, 2013

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Our Tomato Planting Tips

With the weather warming up, some of you may be planning to plant some tomatoes. Follow our tips that we've garn...

Clipped on Apr 09, 2013

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Planting Spring Flowers in Containers

If you're anxious to get spring moving along, why not plant spring flowers in simple containers? They're easy to mov...

Clipped on Apr 09, 2013

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10 Garden Trends for Spring 2013

Yarn Bombing, string gardens and moss, moss, moss! Here's a collection of trends I curated that are unfolding rig...

Clipped on Apr 09, 2013

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Growing Lettuce In A Colander (Or How To Grow...

When I first thought of planting my lettuce in a colander a few years ago, I thought I was being all creative and funk...

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Seeds won't sprout? Here's a tip that works.

Sometimes even when seeds are fresh and should be viable, they just will not sprout (or very few of them do). I first sta...

Clipped on Apr 01, 2013

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What I'm doing in my garden in preparation for spri...

As the birds start singing their courtship song, and the flowers start peeking their heads out of the soil, I have a routine th...

Clipped on Mar 26, 2013

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Raised Bed Garden (Part 2) Setting the Beds in the Grou...

We're back with part 2 of our raised bed garden project. This week we show you how we dug the holes and set the legs in...

Clipped on Mar 26, 2013

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