Our Garden Projects
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Make Faux Wicker with Foam Noodles
See our video at our channel ...
It looks just like wicker, but it's much more affordable and durable!
You won't believe how we made this! To read more, click here.
Make an Easy No-Dig Garden with Paper Bags
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We think fellow gardeners will love this new way to garden, especially if you have problem soil. Read all about it here …
STOP Damping Off Disease with Chamomile Tea
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Kill, Destroy, Combat, Prevent, and Fix Verticillium Wilt on Tomatoes
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Buckwheat is a great companion plant for tomatoes! It adds a lot of phosphorous and nitrogen, naturally and cured our tomatoes of Verticillium wilt. Read more here ...
Red and White Buckwheat
Catch and Kill Mosquitoes & Cure an Itching Bite
#HowToKillMosquitoes #HowToStopItchingMosquitoBite
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Here's how to make a DIY Mosquito Trap that will match a cottage garden.
Make Lampshades into Flower Pots
You'll never look at lampshades the same way again. Turn elegant lampshades into durable flower pots with CementAll. Read more ...
see the video, step-by-step instructions
Build a Potting Bench for Around $100 from Recycled Furniture
watch the step-by-step video here
Shortcut to a Fairy Tale Bridge
We've started a bridge garden and here's how it look so far …
Eight feet long and raised on a sturdy bed of cement pavers, it's hard to believe the bridge project began as a cast-off futon!
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No-Dig, No-Mess,
LampPosts for a Bridge Garden
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Birdbath and Garden Ornaments with Real Lace
As sweet as icing sugar, this birdbath is tough enough to stay out in the garden!
We used real crochet cotton lace and our own tinted wax formula to make it.
We hope you'll click the thumb icon on our YouTube channel. You don't want to miss the gnome's upcoming makeover!
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Customize a Cold Frame Kit
watch the step-by-step video here
Make a Rustic Basket that's Waterproof
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So easy! It's a laundry basket woven with waterproof rope and dog toys for handles.
How to Update Plant Containers with Bark Texture
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It's easy with caulk sculpted with a fork!
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Grow Salads Indoors under LED Lights
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Make our Victorian-Style Seed Box
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Strawberry Patch Delicious Hacks
Free Graphic for Mason Jar Project
Boxwood Babies
Starting with just one dwarf boxwood from Lowes for $17,
we now have four one-year plants, and eight more on the way.
Here's how we are making a garden full of dwarf boxwoods
from clippings.
Watch the video how-to on HomeTalk:
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If you enjoy virtual garden tours, we think you will love
the flair of Jeannie Rhodes! Click here to see Jeannie's garden tour.
by Constance McAlpin and Stephie McCarthy
Nearly twenty years ago, Constance McAlpin began planting
flowers … and then, more flowers.
Now, her garden is a floral wonderland accented with
lightning rods, arches, and scultpures, surrounded by masses
of beautiful beds. Click to see a virtual tour.
Wicker-Style Obelisk from a Tomato Cage
Make our tomato cage obelisk with rush fiber and wooden rods …
You can make this charming garden support in one day.
Click here.
3 Dirty Little Secrets of Compost
1) You can heat up sluggish compost quickly by adding cheap, corn-based dog food. Corn has great heating capabilities used this way.
2) Here are some plants that can be grown directly in a compost pile: potatoes, melons, pumpkins, cucumbers, gourds, and mushrooms! Many of these will disguise the pile too.
3) Question: What do you think is the most common foreign object screened out of commercial compost? (Answer: Plastic cigar tips)
from the Complete Compost Gardening Guide, by Pleasant & Martin
Pie-pan birds
Sparkly "pie-pan" birds dance in the wind to scare away deer and crows from the garden. Cut recycled pie-pans into fanciful shapes like butterflies, or flowers, or use my flying bird shape ... instructions and Flying Swallow Pattern here.
Grow an ornamental red maple from 'foundling'
Our ornamental maple is just three years old, about 15" tall, and a veritable charmer in the garden, well on her way to being a crown jewel of a tree with gently weeping red leaves and diminutive stature. It's hard to believe it started life as a cast-off seed found in a shopping mall parking lot (read more).
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