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How-ToReaders Tips: Repurposed Tools in the Garden Used to Great Effect
Winning Tip: From the kitchen to the garden Several times a year a visitor to our garden is shocked to find a rogue steak knife pierced downward in one of…
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How-ToTips for Growing Hot Peppers
Peppers are native to the tropics, which explains why they thrive in warm weather. As tempting as it is to get a jump-start on the gardening season, do not plant…
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How-ToTips 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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DesignTips for Getting Weeds Under Control Early
Spring is the best time to get weeds under control (or even eliminated) from your beds and borders. The following tools and maintenance tricks will help you get things off…
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How-To6 Ways To Make More Compost
My grandmother, who managed a working farm in my birthplace of Malta, gave me my first lesson on soil health when I was about seven. As we harvested lettuce for…
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Kitchen Gardening5 Easy Vegetable Garden Hacks
Vegetable gardeners are known for their clever work arounds to take some of the work out of growing their gardens. Here are five of the easiest garden hacks to start…
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How-ToGardening Time-Saving Tips
Whenever I hear of gardeners who spend hours a day in their gardens, I get insanely jealous. As a mom and wife with a full-time career, I’m lucky if I…
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Kitchen GardeningVeggie Garden Tidbits, Volume I
Here’s the first volume of random, yet helpful tips and thoughts to feed your garden brain.
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How-ToThe Helpful Green Lacewing
Green lacewings are slender, bright, green-bodied flies that have massive appetites and use their big, sickle-shaped mouthparts to consume soft-bodied insects like aphids, thrips, white flies, and spider mites, as…
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Kitchen GardeningGarden Supplies on the Cheap: Thrift- and Dollar-Store Edition
Here's a cool list of garden goodies you can score at your local dollar or thrift store.
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