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Use Your Old Coffee Grounds in the Garden.
Are you a big coffee drinker? If you are, you will have used coffee grounds. Don't throw them away...used them in the garden.
There are many ways to use them. Camellias, hydrangeas, and roses are all nitrogen loving plants so the coffee grounds help.
The grounds are also a great deterrent for slugs and snails around hostas and other plants that the pests love.
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thanks for the ideas
Can Anyone Tell Me What Type of Plant This Is?
I was given this plant a few days ago, but was not told what type it was, aside from it being an indoor plant. When I received the plant, the leaves were almost black with bugs and the starting to turn a yellow color. I washed the leaves last night which seemed to help it a bit, but the leaves are still turning yellow. The plant was bone dry, so I watered it a bit and put it in a sunny location, but not direct sun light. There are also little bulbs that are there, but the gal that gave
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. I will repot it this evening as it is way too hot to ...»
Sweeten Your Tomatoes With Baking Soda.
Want to grow the sweetest tomatoes around? Use baking soda near your plants in the garden.
Just sprinkle a small amount of baking soda on the soil around your tomato plants. (be careful not to get any on the plant itself and be also careful with young seedlings which are more tender.) The baking soda absorbs into the soil and lowers the acidity levels. This will give you tomatoes that are sweet rather than the tart flavor that store bought tomatoes have. ...»
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Kymnasium. be sure to let the tomatoes get going a bit. Seedlings are very tender, so they ...»
My Garden and Yard After the Rain
There was a break in the rain this morning, so I ventured out with my camera to capture some of the amazing growth that's happened with all the rain here. Come see our flowers and garden.
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The plants do love the rain but to much can really messed up the flowers, my neighbours think ...»
From Trash to Treasure, Remaking a Teapot
I love transforming thrift shop finds to something useful for the garden or home. I bought this teapot for 50 cents, how could I lose?
DIY Herb Thank-You Gifts
A pretty and practical way to say "thank-you" at the end of a school year or as a party favour. See full post with instruction at http://angeswordsandimages.blogspot.ca/2013/...
Before and After Home Garden Project.
Gardening has been a way of life for us. There wasn't a time when we didn't have a garden to tinker with! So when the time came, getting a degree in horticulture just seemed like the
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Thank you Miriam and Vicki. It was a lot of hard work but it truly did pay off! Look forward ...»
June 17th ~ Blooms of the Day!
Come walk around the garden and see the blooms of the day here in Our Fairfield Garden in Delaware.
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Always happy to be of service to my fellow gardeners
How To Tell What's Wrong With Your Vegetable Plants...And Fix It!
This time of year - most of the questions that come to us are centered around plants in the vegetable garden - and what might be the cause of this or that symptom. We thought for this
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Information that all of us home veggie gardeners can use, thanks!
Gardenia or Camellia
Which is it ?? Live in zone 8 and it gets maybe 2 hours of sun in the morning, shade the rest of the day. I just fertilized it 2 days ago and put some straw around it.
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Gardenia