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Plant names made easy

Plant names made easy

Plant names aren’t as hard as you think. Plant names can be complicated, but if you consider the five or so ways plants are named you might get the hang of it. Plants are named these ways: Common names like Busy Lizzie (impatiens) and Miss Wilmot’s Ghost (eryngium) are plants name after people. Other plants [...]

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Planting potatoes

Planting potatoes

If you plant one thing – planting potatoes provides the biggest return for your effort Planting potatoes has to be one of the easiest and most rewarding plants to plant in the edible garden. Even a child can succeed. You can start with “seed” potatoes bought a garden catalog companies, or you start with a [...]

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Straw bale gardening how to

Straw bale gardening how to

Straw bale gardening is one of the easiest ways to get gardening fast Straw bale gardening couldn’t be easier for anyone who doesn’t have a place to plant, or who wants to get the garden up higher so they can reach it, or just because not only do you start with an organic container, but [...]

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Garden things we’ve got to have

Garden things we've got to have

Gardeners have their favorite garden things to work with We all have our favorite garden things we grab when they head out for a day of digging. Usually a good pair of pruners and solid hand trowel are among them. It’s all you really need for the bulk of gardening tasks like deadheading, planting, digging [...]

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Growing succulents in fountains

Growing succulents in fountains

There’s more than one way to roll when you’re growing succulents. Sure you can grow your succulents in the ground, LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. But have you tried growing succulents off the ground – especially in that bird bath you never fill? With all the shapes, sizes and colors available in the succulent world, you can [...]

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Hypertufa how-to

Hypertufa how-to

Hypertufa is so easy, it’s like making mud pies You can start your hypertufa from sratch or you can start with Dirt Couture’s Hypertufa Mix, either way making hypertufa pots, troughs and spheres is simple. Starting with our mix, you just add water to create a mud pie consistancy for crafting your project. What you’ll [...]

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