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Gardening: Reclaiming a flower bed...
I need help! I am trying reclaim a garden bed in the side of my house. Someone laid several layers of black plastic down years ago it appears and it has been over grown with moss. I have gotten 3 hostas to take in it. Am I right that I should pull up the plastic, til it and start over??
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Jess, I would definitely take up the plastic for proper drainage. Putting paper down to keep ...»
May in Our Cottage Garden
May and June are my favorite times in our garden-everything is fresh and bursting with new growth. We have an English cottage garden here at Oak Cottage. Take a stroll down the garden
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Gardening: Suggestions for window boxes. No fake plants.
So very hot here in the summer. Any creative ideas for window boxes. No real or fake plants, please.
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Place a fake bottom to raise the level up to just below the lip and make a miniature town sort ...»
Garbage Can Turned Flower Planter DIY
This is a fun and easy up - cycle project. I rescued some old garbage cans from the side of the road and added some hammered copper spray paint to jazz them up a bit. Now I have some
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15 Minutes 5.00 Easy
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ha glad I'm not the only crazy out there Carol :)
May Garden ~ Birdhouses & Flowers
In looking around the garden, I see a theme has developed. It's all about the birds and flowers. With approximately one hundred birdhouses, I suppose my collection is now nearing
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Thanks, Lorraine Edwards ~ you know it is all about the birds here!
The Fastest Way To Dry Herbs
We want to make the most of every herb we grow this year. We also want to store some for later use. And we want to do it quickly. For small batches, the most convenient drying method we
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5 Minutes Easy
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take a clean screen...put herbs on...lay same size screen on top...clamp down....put in sun to dry
Gardening: Planting corn?
I'm looking for advice about growing corn. I'd like to plant some in my backyard, but I have a lot of questions. Does corn need a lot of sun? What type of soil is good for growing corn? Does it require a lot of water? Also, when is the best time to plant? Spring or fall?
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Jeanette S YES! Good point luv! ...»
Gardening: Please name this plant
This plant sheds its leaves in winter and in May bears new leaves then buds then these white flowers with yellow centers. It is a perennial and very hardy. This shrub is very old and does not need pruning.
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clematis
Maintenance Free Shrubs
I once saw some plywood shrubs made for a stage play. I thought that would be pretty neat for me to have in the front of my house and it would give me way more room for the flowers I love
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Have you been doing this for a while? There was a house in Nichols that had the plywood shrubs ...»
Front Yard Still in Progress...
I have been overmaking my little tiny patch of a front yard for many years! This last summer though I decided that was it! Tried of trying to remake a lawn and lets put down a new one!
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Tanya Peterson Felsheim, we had the same thing happen during the last two very distressed ...»