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| Gardening: Identify invasive plants |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Gardening, How To, Outdoors |
| The Nature Conservancy has an interesting article on how to identify invasive plants in your yard. These are plants that once let free to propagate themselves tend to overpower everything..and I do mean everything. Not only is there a nice photo I.D. gallery, there's also a step by step tutorial on how to get rid of 'em. Just for curiosity's |
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| Get Physical: Garden |
| Published: August 4, 2007, 6:30 am |
| Tags: Gardening, Get Physical, Squats, Weeding, Weight Lifting |
| love gardening! It is a great reason to spend time outside and play in the dirt, plus it can be really physical. While I find gardening alone meditative, getting the entire family involved in yard work is not only more fun, but it is also more productive. Here are a few similarities I see in gardening and gym time: Digging holes and turning |
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| The Magazine Subscription Kvetch |
| Published: July 11, 2007, 12:36 am |
| Tags: Media, Gardening |
| Ok, I hate junk mail. And boy, is it tough to get rid of. My friend (the one who makes the cool beads, click on her link!) told me how I could stop my junk mail, and for a while I tried diligently, calling every time a catalog came in the mail and asked them to take me off their sell/mail list. One day, I called EIGHT catalog companies. EIGHT |
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| Gardening: How to grow a bonsai tree |
| Published: August 5, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Gardening, How To, Weekend Project |
| If you've ever wanted to grow a bonsai tree, you're going to want to check out the Bonsai Primer, one of the oldest and most complete guides to growing and keeping a Bonsai on the Web. Bonsai trees are relatively simple to take care of, and they're great starter projects for anyone who's looking to develop their green thumb. Everything is |
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| Flower Gardening Do You Dig It Baby? |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 4:49 am |
| Tags: Gardening, Hobbies, Early Spring, Flowers, Flower Bed, Flower Garden, Flower Gardening, Hobby Flower, Meadow Look, Perennials, Seeds, Stepping Stone, Stone Style |
| Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day. Flowers can brighten everyone's day, they smell nice, and are a great hobby. Flower gardening is simple, inexpensive, and loads of fun. Flower gardening can be done for yard decoration, simply as a hobby, or even professionally. There are some decisions that have to be made |
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| Weekend Project: How to press flowers |
| Published: August 12, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Craft, Crafts, Gardening, Weekend Project |
| Craft blog Crafty Daisies has put together a great tutorial on how to make your very own flower press - perfect for preserving these last few weeks of summer. Pressing flowers used to be a wildly popular pastime, and these make some beautiful wall art as well. Best of all, it's a craft that even us somewhat craft-impaired folks can manage to make |
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| 3 Tips In Landscaping Your Garden |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 4:10 am |
| Tags: Gardening, Brick Walkway, Fishpond, Formal Gardens, Informal Garden, Landscaped Gardens, Landscape Style, Plants |
| Landscaping is usually a fairly big task, consuming much time and energy. But before you hire that professional, here are some tips that could save both time and money. 1. Spend some time thinking about exactly how you want the final design to be. You need to take account of the style and function of your landscape. Do you want to include an |
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| SunFlower |
| Published: June 30, 2007, 5:41 pm |
| Tags: Gardening Flowers, Florida |
| The first sunflower of the season opened today.. The birds like the seeds.. |
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| Much Chaos Doeth Abound Here |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 3:59 pm |
| Tags: Christmas, Not To Be Believed, Carnivals, Gardening Flowers |
| WHAT? Is Pet Insane? Handing control over to the human slave for the Bad Kitty Cats for her web sites? Muahhhhhhh… We have promised to be up to no good and much mischief so for this wonderful Bad Kitty Cats Festival of Chaos, we have corrupted The Bengal Brats. They are, as we speak, striking terror in the hearts of those who are at home |
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| The Biggest Weed Ever |
| Published: August 20, 2007, 4:11 pm |
| Tags: Garden, House Amp Amp Home, Gardening, Home, Life, General |
| Well, I have a secret to admit. As those that follow joeymoggie know, I worked very hard to have a lovely front garden. My back garden, however, is another story. Please behold the most massive weed I’ve ever seen in my life! And I’ve grown it! Its more (yes more) than 9 feet tall. I [...] |
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| Stuff We Like: Greenhouse in a Box |
| Published: August 30, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Diy, Gardening, Health, Heat Hacks, Stuff We Like |
| Enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables season after season with the reusable eight-shelf greenhouse. This greenhouse weighs in at 31 pounds, can fit eight shelves, measures 4' x 4' x 6' and costs $130. If you're pressed for cash, space or both, the eight-shelf greenhouse looks like a great investment. I'm not sure this could withstand some of the |
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| Gardener's - HUGE Summer Blowout Sale! |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 11:46 pm |
| Tags: Composting, Planters, Pest Control, Sale, Gardening Tools, Gardening, Yard, Greenhouse, Landscaping, Flowers, Yard Care, Vegetable Gardening, Gardens |
| reduced, some up to 63%!Gardening, Landscaping, Yard, and Home.Yard Care and Landscaping, flower and vegetable gardening, pots and planters, pest Control, gardening tools and essentials, greenhouses, composting, solar lights, pond maintenance, and much more.Don't miss out on saving up to 63% on your Gardening supplies.Need more options for |
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| Plant Enemies |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 4:55 pm |
| Tags: Gardening, Cucumbers, Cut Worm, Fungicides, Home Gardener, Insecticides, Mosquito Netting, Set Plants, Tar Paper |
| The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts: (1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants; (2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides. Of the first the most useful is the covered frame. It consists usually of a wooden box, some eighteen inches to two feet square and about eight high, |
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| The Free Neighborhood Home D cor Makeover |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 10:13 am |
| Tags: Great Gardening Tips |
| Watching home makeover shows can make us all yearn for spiffy new décor in our outdated rooms. But if Trading Spaces doesn’t call, and your budget only has room for a can of spray paint from the dollar store, what do you do? You get together with your neighbors and exchange free makeovers! Free? Yes, free! Updated your room |
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| Planting Seeds |
| Published: September 11, 2007, 6:47 pm |
| Tags: Gardening, Bean Plant, Blossom, Gardener, Good Seeds, Hardy Plant, Parent Plant, Plants, Seed Selection |
| Any reliable seed house can be depended upon for good seeds; but even so, there is a great risk in seeds. A seed may to all appearances be all right and yet not have within it vitality enough, or power, to produce a hardy plant. If you save seed from your own plants you are able to choose carefully. Suppose you are saving seed of aster plants. |
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