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Moneysaving Tips for Gardeners

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Dirt Cheap Garden Ideas Not everyone can afford a bath size water garden kit, but what about using an old tub that was cast off from a remodeling project? What about old teacups turned into bird feeders? Or signs made out of old lumber, or the newest trend... making stuff out of wooden pallets? In the following sections: learn how to save money in the garden. Dividing your plants will … [Read more...] about Moneysaving Tips for Gardeners

Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape

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What if you could see which shrubs and trees grow well in your landscape? Or learn of plants mature sizes without waiting for years? An Arboretum can show and tell.  What Is An Arboretum? An Arboretum is a place where trees are grown, but not only trees. Many are places to find shrubs, perennials, and wildflowers - many plants that you may wish to have in your garden. It is mostly a showcase for … [Read more...] about Visit An Arboretum And Save Dollars On Your Landscape

More Than Pretty

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 It's true, and that was something I wrote about in these garden thoughts. But pretty can make some of life's all too real tragedy bearable. It is that fine balance, really, that the making of art revolves around. There is a time for photo documentary and there is a time for photoshop... to put it in familiar terms.One thing that often bothered me about the art world was the restrictive … [Read more...] about More Than Pretty

Wall Street Guru Gives Gardening Advice

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Swiss Chard Not Swiss BanksThere is an awful lot of speculation about the economy and where the financial shape of the world (and our future) is going and proffered advice on how we can protect ourselves from hard times. Jim Rogers, Well Known Investment GuruJim Rogers, an expert investor, has good advice for the wise (at least some feel it is wise), but gardeners and garden bloggers have been way … [Read more...] about Wall Street Guru Gives Gardening Advice

If you would like to follow more of my adventures…

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Sometimes too many blogs in the fire are too much of a good thing, I know... for reading and writing. However (you knew that was coming, right?) I had decided to break up the topics that I write on into separate blogs some time ago (before blogging, actually, when making that first Geocities website).ANYWAY - you might be interested in following the d-i-yourself tales and the back and forth banter … [Read more...] about If you would like to follow more of my adventures…

Gardening, Greening, and Saving Society

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Survivor, America is a financial oriented article/video from Yahoo Finance, today. It centers around a point of view that many of us have become familiar with- but I wanted to look at it from the Gardener's perspective.In short, Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute, predicts that things are going to become much worse in our economy. As Aaron Task, the interviewer, drew out, … [Read more...] about Gardening, Greening, and Saving Society

Eye on the Future: growing our food

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Article on what you might expect from planning a small market garden offers up this advice:         II. Creating Your Own Successful Market Garden How do you prepare? 1. START SMALL! Don't plant more than you can care for properly, and sell or use. 2. Determine the market or markets you will sell to: a) Wholesalers, b) small grocery stores, c) restaurants, d) … [Read more...] about Eye on the Future: growing our food

Chickens in the City Controversy

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Chickens vs Property Values.What ever happened to common sense? Regulatory powers and the thinking of martinets combine to make mountains out of molehills. Why not just apply the common sense rules that already apply to animals in an urban environment? Sanitation and flock size regulations make sense, but outlawing a generally beneficial animal does not. It is concerning that government is … [Read more...] about Chickens in the City Controversy

Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This

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This video is for anyone who is interested in saving seeds, particularly tomato seeds, but it is most especially for my husband. Handyman has been very interested in Survival blogs and their know how... and ( happily for me) has voiced interest in helping me garden this year. This is good news, I'm tellin' ya. Well, in this video is not only some good garden advice, but the philosophical thoughts … [Read more...] about Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This

Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This

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This video is for anyone who is interested in saving seeds, particularly tomato seeds, but it is most especially for my husband. Handyman has been very interested in Survival blogs and their know how... and ( happily for me) has voiced interest in helping me garden this year. This is good news, I'm tellin' ya. Well, in this video is not only some good garden advice, but the philosophical thoughts … [Read more...] about Oh Darling- You Will LOVE This

The Gardening Bubble

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You've heard of the real estate bubble, and talk of other bubbles as well, but we gardeners have our own forms of the dreaded "bubble". Remember history's "Tulipomania"? Yep, everyone had to have tulips, the latest and rarest one, and a bubble was born to illustrate all other bubbles. Wherever the tale of tulips are told, the story of tulipomania is trotted out: the beautiful tulip is showcased in … [Read more...] about The Gardening Bubble