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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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Gardening: Rhubarb Help Please!!
I am wondering why one of my rhubarb plants is thinking it is time to go to flower? or go to seed? I am not sure what it is doing.
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I always pull that one out. I never cut! Perhaps you should pull all the big stocks off and ...»
Gardening: I bought a somewhat leggy tomato plant and upon looking online to see
how to plant it, I found a video that said to put it into the ground sorta lying on its side but then pull it up into the upright position. Said the part underground would form roots and send up new plants (I think that what's she said). Shown here is a screen shot from the video showing how she's lying part of it down into a long hole in the ground. She also said to put some bone meal into the planting hole to produce more tomatoes instead of more green parts. Ideas on whether any of this is a good idea?
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I always plant my tomatoes real deep. Take the bottom leaf branches off an plant about 4 ...»
Make Your Own Custom Flower Pots.
Did you know that you can print on tissue paper? Simply wrap it around a piece of printer paper and you can run it through your printer to get the exact graphics that you want. Then all
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Yes, I do use an ink jet printer. It bleeds just a very little but when I antiqued the pots ...»
Vegetables in 7 Days! Grow Microgreens!
Veggies in 7 Days! Grow microgreens for sale or a nutrition boost to add to almost any dish! (OK, Not chips.) These took a ton of abuse and you can see, still grew just fine! Different
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Here are the written directions (blog): ...»
Tractor Seat Bouncers...
This is my next project repainting these fun lawn seats. These are made out of old tractor seats - spring coil off a car - brake drums and brake rotors... They are fun because you cannot
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Gardening: This plant is very old. Just last year, I put 3 different smaller pots
together into this longer planter. They've lived outside all spring thru fall on my shady deck for years and have always done well. But look what happened this year. The now brownish and not-so-pretty areas were new growth, I believe. What do you suppose made this happen? Nothing bad is happening to them right now but I want to make sure it doesn't.
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, Nancy Hand ~ always my pleasure to share it with you!
How To Train a Clematis on a Tree Trunk
When I planted a climbing hydrangea (Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris) near our maple tree, I also planted Clematis 'Perle d'Azur', thinking that it climb the tree using the hydrangea
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That is a great combination! Clematis can also be trained into spring flowering shrubs ...»
Gardening: My Iris have stopped blooming. Should I cut them back or what is best
When is best time to divide?
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I have found that if you don't want to transplant, you can just make several straight cuts ...»