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Collecting rainwater
By Naomi Mackay · 15 years ago
Be prepared for the next drought or hosepipe ban, and keep down your bills if you’re on a water meter by collecting rainwater to use in your garden. It’s easy, cheap and, of course, the ...
Growing Your Best Tomatoes
By Ellen Bell · 15 years ago
Tomatoes are arguably the most popular homegrown crop in the United States. What makes them so popular? Most tomato lovers would agree that the best-tasting tomatoes in the world are those that are homegrown in ...
Potting Mixture And Earthworms In Your Garden
By Juliet Sadler · 15 years ago
Potting Mixture for cuttings and transplanted seedlings: - 2 parts sharp sand, 1 part loam, and 1 part leaf mould (or peat moss for acid tolerant plants). Potting Mixture for general potting, especially for such ...
Growing Cucumbers In Your Garden
By Juliet Sadler · 15 years ago
To give minute rules for the propagation and cultivation of this plant, in a country like this, would be waste of time. However, if you wish to have them a month earlier than the natural ...
Grafting Your Trees
By Juliet Sadler · 15 years ago
GRAFTING is the joining of a cutting of one to another tree in such a way as that the tree, on which the cutting is placed, sends up its sap into the cutting, and makes ...
Is Your Lawn Dying? Here's How To Revive It
By Alex Murphy · 15 years ago
As time goes by, the dirt in your lawn becomes more compressed. Mainly, this occurs due to foot traffic or rolling large machines, such as lawn mowers over it throughout the seasons. Your lawn may ...
What Is A Hand Glass
By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago
A hand glass is, square glass house in miniature. Its sides are about eight inches high from the ground to the eves. The roof rises from each side in a triangular form, so that it ...
Annuals and Biennials
By Fern Marshall Bradley And Trevor Cole · 15 years ago
A garden can be quickly filled with color by using annuals and biennials. These plants flower longer than many others and are ideal for filling gaps in a border.
Almost any patch of soil can ...
London Bathroom Remodelling
By Bathroom Remodelling · 15 years ago
Bathroom remodelling is one of the home renovations that can add a lot of value to your home when you list it for sale. The key to getting potentials buyers to want to buy your ...
Growing Magic Mushrooms Just Got a Whole Lot Easier
By Andrew Mushkin · 15 years ago
For amateur "magic" mushroom cultivators living where it's legal to grow hallucinogenic mushrooms, starting that first successful grow just got a lot more convenient. You can buy DVD videos, how-to guides and starter kits, but ...
Go Organic to Shrink Your Gardening Budget
By Fern Marshall Bradley · 15 years ago
Saving the Earth and protecting children and pets from dangerous chemicals are the reasons most gardeners cite for giving up pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, but guess what? Making the switch to organic gardening methods will ...
What to Find in Weed Eaters
By David Urmann · 15 years ago
We need weed eaters for our garden and lawns. When choosing one, there are a lot of things to consider. You do not have to worry about the design. There are almost all similar designs ...
Giving Your Plants A Boost With Epsom Salts
By Juliet Sadler · 15 years ago
Use this old household remedy to give some plants a boost.
Many gardeners are familiar with benefits of applying Epsom salts to tomatoes, peppers, and roses but if you are not then let me explain ...
Midsummer Gardening At Home
By Julie Souto · 15 years ago
We have once again reached the wonderful magical time of midsummer, when the garden is aglow with sensational blooms and a fantastic array of colors. Many of these wonderful blooms fill the air with their ...
Garden Soil: From Bad To Good
By Ellen Bell · 15 years ago
The first step in good gardening is having good garden soil. Unfortunately, the vast majority of us aren't blessed with the perfect soil that is rich and fertile, well draining, full of nutrients, and free ...
A Gas Pressure Washer – When Electric Doesn't Cut It
By Terry Kyle · 15 years ago
When you are ready to get serious, a gas pressure washer is the ticket for you.
Sure, there are powerful electric power washers, but the gas powered units are just out of control. Imagine blasting ...
How To Plant Beans
By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago
Endless is the variety of sorts. Some are dwarfs, some climbers; but, the mode of propagating and cultivating is nearly the same in all, except that the dwarfs require smaller distances than the climbers, and ...
All About Growing Flowers
By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago
If the American Farmer have no taste for flowers, his wife and daughters may; and this part of the book can, at any rate, do him no harm.
Under the head of Flowers come flowering ...
All About Beet
By Janice Sherwood · 15 years ago
This vegetable, which is little used in England, is here in as common use as carrots are there. It should be sown in the fall but, if not, as soon as the ground is free ...
Flower Tattoos And Their Popularity
By Jaden Sloan · 15 years ago
Today, tattoos are very popular among women and one of the more popular designs for women are flower designs. Flower design tattoos come in a wide variety of flowers and colors ad can take on ...