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Gifts for the Garden, From Nature
Mulch alternatives and a thrifty way to make plant tags.
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Frugal Lawn Care
Cheap and easy tips for a green, (relatively) weed-free lawn
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Composting Made Easy
Compost Happens. Get rid of garden debris and kitchen scraps, and make wonderful, fertile compost for your garden.
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Gardening With Less Water
A little planning and a good supply of organic mulch can help you lower your water and sewer bills and increase your harvest.
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Building A Compost Pile
Take into account time requirements, space available and your budget.
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Cheap Mulch Options
Think creatively when looking for inexpensive mulches. Find cheap and free mulches in some common, and not-so-common, places.
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Composting Basics
Composting is a quick and easy way to make use of yard waste, such as leaves and twigs, grass clippings, and kitchen waste.
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Growing Sweet Corn
Growing succulant sweet corn organically in late spring and summer. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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What is Compost?
Composting is an environmentally-friendly and natural way of returning nutrients to the soil.
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Compost Happens!
Still not composting like you should? Ready to start composting anew this spring? Get the information you need to start out right -- what to use and how to do it, so you can make great compost for your garden now! The perfect way to celebrate Earth Day!
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Compost: Organic Fertilizer
Compost is an organic fertilizer and mulch. Learn how to make organic fertilizer in a compost pile and benefits of compost as organic fertilizer and mulch.
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Composting the Easy Way
Build a compost bin and learn from an expert, just how easy it can be to have rich compost for your garden, houseplants and starts.
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Composting Tips for Beginners
A compost bin can take kitchen scraps and yard waste and turn them into rich rewards. Here's how to start composting now.
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How to Mulch the Flower Garden
Mulch is the flower gardener's number one tool, offering multiple benefits for your flowers and the soil all year long. Take advantage of this work saving secret weapon.
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Mother Earth's Best Friend
This is a quick introduction and primer to building your own compost pile for your garden. It lists the general idea and some tips on getting it started and where to place it.
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Organic Lawn Care
Organic lawn care is possible. By growing healthy grass you can avoid weeds, thatch, and disease.
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Wintertime Tasks for the Gardener
Wintertime should be anything but a slow time for the gardener. While you're waiting for spring blooms, here are two wintertime tasks that'll get your garden ready for spring. Learn the best ways to store seeds and tender perennials and discover the benefits of composting.
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Let's Talk Dirty - The Basics of Beginning Composting
Compost is the best friend of organic gardeners. Don't relish the thought of tending to a messy, stinky, rotting pile of garbage? You're kidding, right? Actually, composting is not only educational and beneficial, it's fun...(and only stinky if you're doing it wrong).
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Steps to a Great Lawn
Good lawn care involves a combination of mowing, watering, fertilizing together with insect and weed control. A regular program centered around these items can make the difference between an ok and a great lawn.
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Move Over New England, California Has Fall Leaf Color, Too
Move Over New England, California Has Fall Leaf Color, Too. Make use of your fallen leaves by composting them.
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Natural Weed Control
Controlling weeds without using expensive chemicals. The conditions which are most favorable for weed growth. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Organic Mulches
Organic mulches are beneficial and earth friendly.
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The Compost Chef
Become a gourmet chef in the garden by gathering, mixing, and turning organic ingredients into rich recipes plant patrons live for.
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Top 10 Lawns
Top 10 Lawns
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Winter Garden Ideas
Get a head start on your early spring vegetable garden or grow vegetables all year long, even in the Midwest, with these tips and tricks.
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Louisiana's Good Earth
Fall leaves and composting in a Louisiana back yard.
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Organic Gardening Shortcuts
Implement one of 26 A to Z organic gardening tips to increase yields, fight garden pests and diseases, and beautify your landscape.
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Spring in the Heartlands
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Transplanting Tomato and Hot Pepper Plants.
Transplanting Pepper and Tomato Plants. Actually great tips for transplanting any vegetable plants.
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A Note From the Compostmaster General
Don't throw away those kitchen scraps! Turn them into a valuable soil amendment instead.
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Growing Herbs from Seed; Buying and Planting Plants
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The Simplicity of Deep Mulch Gardening
Simplify your gardening by retiring your tiller. Deep mulch gardening is easier on you and the environment. And your plants will thank you for it.
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Lawn Fertilizer – Organic or Synthetic
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A Change Of Seasons
Brief: Initial application article signifying what the end of Summer and the start of Fall means to me as it relates to Figure Skating.
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Adding Organic Matter
Organic matter, soil type: what's the big deal? Well, your flowers can sure tell a difference - and so should you! Get up to speed on organic matter and soil preparation.
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Choose the Best Compost Bin
Gardeners must compare the features of tumbling compost bins, wire compost bins, and plastic composters before buying this essential equipment for the organic garden.
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Clearing an Overgrown Garden
Perennial, persistant weeds make clearing a new vegetable garden very hard, frustrating work. This method gives you weed free soil, as well as vegetables, within a year.
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Compost in the Organic Garden
Compost enriches your garden soil, providing nutrients the organic way. You also retard moisture loss and reduce the strain on landfills.
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Composting is Beautiful- Now Make it Easy!
A build it yourself compost system for serious gardeners. Simple and flexible instructions for a large 3 bin style composter, along with basic tips for practical use.
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Composting Lesson Plans
Celebrate spring with composting in this hands-on garden activity that brings reading, writing, and science curricula together for elementary school students.
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Cover Crops Rediscovered
Cover crops Rediscovered. Fava beans, annual rye grass, oats, barley and clovers can all act as natural cover crops over the winter. Besides improving soil, they can control erosion, attract pollinating insects and reduce weeds.,Cover crops Rediscovered. Fava beans, annual rye grass, oats, barley and clovers can all act as natural cover crops over the winter. Besides improving soil, they can control erosion, attract pollinating insects and reduce weeds.
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Hiring a Lawn Care Service
Tired of mowing the grass yourself? How to find a cheap but effective lawn care company. Paying a lot of money doesn't necessarily mean good service.
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Liquid Assets -- part 2
The rains have been gone for some time and it's more critical than ever to protect our most easily damaged resource -- water.
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Making Use of Sawdust
In areas where it is readily available, sawdust makes good organic material for your garden, but you need to learn how to prepare it to eliminate the poisonous ingredients. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Mulch Mulch and More Mulch
Mulch in your garden is a wise investment. Any time and money you spend will be richly rewarded with a big reduction of pests and disease. Your plants will be healthier
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New Composting Assurance Standards
New quality assurance standards for the composting industry gives confidence to consumers who buy their products. Written by Geoffrey Ian Miller.
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Raised Bed Gardening II
In Raised Bed Gardening Part II, I explain how to easily create a raised garden bed, a raised garden bed frame, and a cold frame. Raised bed gardening can be easy!
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Scotts Company gives you the Tools for a Great Lawn
The Scotts Company has given us a great web site with some very useful general information including what you should be doing with your yard or garden depending on the season.
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Tips on Overwintering Chiles, Free Organic Mulches & More!
Planning to overwinter your plants starts now in July. Free Organic Mulches. The popular 'Ask Pepper Joe' section is back in Suite 101.
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Transplanting Seedlings
This is a lesson in the best way to transplant your seedling to your garden. This works also with store bought plants and anything else that you want to transplant.
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