garden tips - Fine Gardening
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Tips to Help You Squeeze More Out of Your Garden
Winning tip: Keep your hose from harming your delicate plants I find this works perfectly to prevent any injury or damage to my delicate plants when hauling hoses around the…
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Budget-Friendly Garden Hacks and Tips to Keep Things Organized
Winning tip: Handy garden tool tote Several years ago while shopping at a big-box store, I spotted this tote in the household-cleaning section. In addition to carrying cleaning supplies, it can…
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6 Gardening Tips That Repurpose Common Household Items
Gardeners often find ingenious ways to solve problems. Below you'll find tips from our readers that repurpose common household items to great effect. Get an edge on gardening and peruse…
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Social Media Gardening Tips and Tricks to Avoid
If your feed is anything like mine, you get a constant stream of newsy horticultural information every time you look at your phone. Many of these articles, memes, and posts…
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Tips on Storing Bulbs, Pruning Hedges, Supporting Plants, and Overwintering Biennials
Mesh bags for winter storage - Winning Tip Every autumn, despite having saved mesh bags from my purchases of onions, bulbs, and the like, I find myself searching for additional…
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Tips for Solving Garden Problems
We all make mistakes, but most of us would prefer not to learn every gardening lesson the hard way. When five gardening professionals shared some garden mistakes they've made or…
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Gardening Tips for Protecting Flowers, Controlling Bindweed, and More
They’re bloomin’ in the rain – Winning Tip My ‘Apricot’ chrysanthemums look gorgeous until the first rainfall when their beautiful flowers droop and decline. To prevent that, I clipped an…
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Tips About Deer Control, Tomato Cages, Containers, and Garden Tools
1. From dry cleaner to garden - Winning Tip To keep deer from browsing the leaves of hostas and other plants in my garden, I often float lightweight bird netting…
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Tips About Pest Control, Window Boxes, Comfort, Protecting Sprouts, and Watering
Winning Tip: Protect those sprouts I was searching for a way to help protect young sprouts and encourage their growth. I had used plastic container collars before, but birds and…
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6 Tips for Easier Gardening This Season
1. Repurpose an old cushion for a garden seat - Winning Tip Garden kneelers are a necessity as you age, not a luxury. One day when I was getting ready…