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Select pallets stamped with the letters "HT," which indicates that they have been heat-treated, and not treated with chemicals that can leach into the soil and contaminate plants meant to be consumed such as herbs, vegetables and fruit.…

Plant tomatoes where they will get at least 10 hours of light in summer. Alternate your tomato bed between even just two spots and you diminish the risk of soilborne diseases such as bacterial spot and early blight. When buying tomato…

Those worms on your geraniums are The larvae of a small, beige moth called Heliothis virescens or Helicoverpa virescens, which feeds especially on Nicotiana species. The budworms are one of the most destructive pests of tobacco and cotton…

How to : First fill your pot with cacti potting mix. Wet your sphagnum moss. Then squeeze any exess water out. Then put on top of the cacti potting mix. You hould remove any hard stems from the moss. then vreate a mounded top from…

How to make a seed spacing template: Take a 2' wide piece of plywood and we cut it 2' x 2', then measure it into 2" grids. then use 3/4" wood screws at the 2" marks, and then screwe the wine corks that were cut into 1" length onto each…

The basic square-foot gardening are: 1. Arrange your garden in squares, not rows. Lay it out in 4′x4′ planting areas. 2. Build boxes to hold a new soil mix above ground. 3. Space boxes 3′ apart to form walking aisles. 4. Fill boxes with…

How to: Step 1: Set up raised-bed boxes. We choose five cedar boxes called miniframbox you can get them from Amazon. Step 2: Fill the boxes with compost. Step 3: put in drip irrigation. With a drip system, your vegetables will get water…

Are you in need for a new, fancy decoration for your home or garden? Do you prefer Paperwhites? Would you prefer the costs to be cheap? What about for free? You can always chose the second alternative and make things by yourself, without…

Materials you'll need for this project: One sheet of pegboard - 2-foot by 4-foot dimension (you will use half of it) One sheet of good quality plywood – 2-foot by 2-foot dimension Two packages of Fluted Dowel Pins – ¼ inch…