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Tina B

Norridgewock, ME
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  • Materials needed, soil, potatoes, and reusable bags.
  • Cut up potatoes and let sit out for 2 days (this prevents disease once planted).
  • Place potatoes eye side up.
  • Cover with soil
  • Roll down sides to allow sun and rain to reach potatoes.
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Use Reusable Grocery Bags to Grow Potatoes

When I discovered that the potato grow bags cost $20 each I decided to try using my old reusable grocery bags to grow my potatoes in this year. Add 3" of soil to bottom, add potatoes eye ...»
side up, cover with additional 4" of soil. Once plant is 8" high add more soil. Keep adding soil until bag is full. Once plant starts to die and wilt, stop watering. Wait a couple of weeks and dump bag out. Harvest your home grown potatoes. #MayProjects

2 Little Superheroes
2 Little Superheroes Raleigh, NC
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  • Black eyed susan vine.
  • Clip your seeds a little with nail clippers. 2
  • Soak in water overnight.
  • 3 days later, your have seedlings!
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How To Start Seeds In Just 3 Days!

Life got busy around here this spring, and I forgot to plant my seeds inside. I was just going to forget it and move on until I read about clipping and soaking your seeds to help them ...»
germinate faster. Well, I tried it out, and it worked perfectly!

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Mom4Real Lexington, KY
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  • Pallet fence panel before trimming the rotten wood and painting. 2
  • Pallet fence panel after trimming and painting.
  • The fence is being installed. 2
  • The garden gate was made from pallets too.  The arbor was made from my childrens' old sandbox.  We cut the large boards down to build the arbor.
  • The fence is almost finished.
  • Here is a picture taken from my bench at the back of the garden looking towards the arbor.  The fence is complete.  Now on to making the garden look pretty.  This will take awhile. 1
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Re-purposing pallets

This is a fence I made for my garden using pallets and old pickets from a fence that had been torn down. When I ran out of the old pickets, I used pallet boards and cut them to match the ...»
pickets so I could complete the project. My fenced area is 30' X 40' and I still had pallets left over for other projects.

Allison House
Allison House Sumter, SC
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  • Brush on some craft store acrylic paint; I used two coats.
  • Let dry overnight and then use a nail file to distress.
  • Finish them off with a coat of clear enamel. 1

Painted & Distressed Mason Jar

Give your mason jars a shabby chic look with some acrylic paint and sandpaper.
Linda @ it all started with paint
Linda @ it all started wi... Chicago, IL
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  • This little ottoman started life as an end table!
  • I found her barely standing at the thrift store for $2.99! I love to repurpose furniture don't you?
  • The Husband added a few screws to make the table more sturdy, then I cut 2" foam to fit the top of the table & glued it on...
  • I painted the legs and sides of the table my favorite color blue and distressed it just a little using sand paper ...Four layers of quilt batting insured a cushy feel! I used an electric stapler which was a necessity for this project!
  • I chose a gray-blue piece of heavy fabric for the cover and stapled like a nut! (If you are a professional I'll go ahead and apologize!)
  • Leftover fabric from some curtains and some trim I got who knows where were perfect for a ruffle to hide the 7 million staples! (I stapled the ruffle on, then using a giant needle, sewed the trim)
  • She's a sweet little ottoman!
(We've since moved and now she lives in the Master Bathroom where she's a comfy little stool!)
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DIY Ottoman from an old End Table!

I love taking an old piece of furniture and giving it a second life! This $2.99 end table from a Thrift Store was perfect for turning into a cute ottoman! I did it for under $25.00 and it was actually pretty easy!

5 Hours 25.00 Moderate
All Things Heart and Home
All Things Heart and Home Marietta, GA
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  • You'll need a container, gravel or small stones, charcoal, potting soil, some small plants and fun doodads to liven the place up.
  • This is the cracker jar with its silver lid.  I scuffed the lid up with sandpaper and spray painted it a pretty turquoise color.
  • See, pretty turquoise!
  • I layered 1/2 inch of stones followed by 1 inch of charcoal and topped by 2 1/2 inches of potting soil.
  • Plant your plants, set up your doodads, mist the foliage and screw on the lid.
  • OK, this Phlox really has to go back outside to get planted in the ground now. 1
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Colorful Terrarium Tutorial

Have you seen those cracker jars at Walmart and Hobby Lobby? Love those things. They come with a plain Jane silver lid, but I spray painted mine to give it a more vintage/vibrant feel. ...»
And then turned it into a terrarium!

The simple instructions are beneath the photos.

#MayProjects

House Of Hawthornes
House Of Hawthornes Columbus, OH
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How to Set Up Your Garden in Your Home or Apartment

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Homes.com Norfolk, VA
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  • How many times have you thrown food away because it spoiled before you ate it?
  • We changed our approach to food and have stretched our savings and food stores by using these few tricks.
  • Buying nuts in bulk is cheaper, but you don't want them to go back.  Separate them into air tight containers until you're ready to use them.
  • We freeze our own beans!  We soak them and divide them into meal size servings and lay them flat to freeze.
  • We portion our meats and freeze them.
  • Just make sure to label the freezer bag with the date and remove as much air as possible.
  • We do this for all our meats - chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, pork loin steaks. 3
  • TIP! Save all your chicken scraps, skin and bones, as well as any vegetable scraps.  I store them in a freezer bag and once the bag is full, I slow cook the scraps into a broth.  I let the broth cool and skim the fat, then store it!
  • For portion control, freeze your cookie dough. We fly through a batch of cookies in a few days.  Roll the dough into small balls and freeze them.
  • Transfer them to a freezer bag with the baking instructions on the outside.  Only take out the number of cookies you want to eat.
  • We make our own granola.  It's so easy, just find your favorite recipe and make. Much cheaper than store bought without all the preservatives. 1
  • One of our biggest money savers is making our own pizza.  We buy frozen dough in bulk.  We've made our own pizza sauce, too.  Each pizza comes to about $2.75! 1
  • Making your own bread may be daunting, but it's really quite easy.  One recipe we use makes two loaves.
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Stretching Your Grocery Budget

I share tips and tricks to stop wasting the food you buy.
Noting Grace
Noting Grace Henderson, NV
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