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82Lighted Plant Stand - Build Your Own
The sap rises in gardeners a long time before it does outside. The yen to grow something causes many gardeners to cram their windowsills with greenery during the winter. Some go a step farther and get a...
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73Make Paper Pots for Raising Seeds Indoors
For growing seedlings inside, instead of peat pots, peat strips, pellets, or plastic pots, an economical alternative is to make your own pots out of newspapers. A regular size empty soup can, put through the...
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88Make Seed Tapes: A Better Way to Sow Seeds
Spring is the busiest time in the garden, and any way you can save time is welcome. In seed catalogs I saw the term “seed tapes” and when I saw their high price I decided to make my own. It’s easy and fun, and it saves time and money at...
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80Make Barren Fruit Trees Bear
How frustrating it is to have a fruit tree just sitting there year after year, and not bear the luscious fruit pictured in the catalog where you purchased it. When this happened to me, I researched methods...
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75Fruit Trees for Small Gardens
The first year my peach tree bloomed beautifullyDwarf Self-Fruitful Fruit Trees Three innovations in fruit tree development make it possible for you to grow a small orchard in the space where only one standard apple tree could formerly thrive. ...
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81Prune, Spray, and Protect for Better Fruit
Did you kick yourself last August as you sadly looked at wormy apples and other misshapen fruit? Did you swear that you would take better care of your fruit trees this year? If so, early spring is the...
0 comments73Should you Rent or Buy that Garden Machinery?
The purchase of a power lawn mower is a must if you have a lawn bigger than a handkerchief. With a small lawn, a push mower is an economical alternative and also a form of useful exercise. But what about...
0 comments71How's Your Memory
The minister said to the elderly man, “Now that you’re retired and have the time, you ought to be thinking more about the hereafter.” “I think about it all the time,” the man replied. “Every time...
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77Earthworms: Soils' Fertility Factories
I've always liked earthworms, as wiggly as they are, because they improve my garden soil so industriously. They’re trustworthy, hard working, and very helpful, the same qualities that a girl looks for in a...
0 comments64Morning Inspiration
In retirement, do you ever wake up in the morning and feel that there isn’t anything worth getting out of bed for? (No job to get to, no boss to please or displease, no kids to get off to school.) I feel...
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