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I just couldn't resist buying several greenhouse kits the other day. They were on a discount table at our local auto store (I love that store) for $25/each. It got me thinking about how to use them and what I'd like in a small greenhouse. So here's …
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Let me tell you a short story from my nursery days. A customer came into the nursery and she was really, really upset because the tomato plants she purchased from me weren't growing. It was a month after planting and they were still the same …
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Let me give you the real deal on controlling algae or green water in your pond using barley straw. Lots of websites would love to sell you this material (at some incredible prices) so here's how you can make best use of this product. Understand …
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You know a plant is wonderful when you see a football playing jock carefully harvesting the blooms of lilies because “They look pretty good.” And with that direct approach, a large armload of flowers trucked off to an unnamed university town …
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This spring I moved our compost bin into the redesigned vegetable garden. It was an attempt to make the compost where we'd use it rather than having to dig and move it a hundred feet. And that's where the law of unintended consequences raised it's …
Pond scum is pretty much an ugly thing in the backyard pond and usually results from a complete unbalancing of the water system. You'll recognize it because of the floating algae that is coalescing into bigger chunks. The trick is to fish this stuff …
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