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AUGUST 30, 2011

The summer garden season is winding down for me. As I begin to clear out the garden, I am making notes for next year. I have been keeping a garden notebook ever since I started my garden back in the summer of 2002 and it comes in handy year after year. Do you keep a garden notebook? Thanks for reading.

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Gardening Garden Flowers and Plants Plants 153

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APRIL 17, 2012

We spent this past weekend, cleaning up my square foot garden. As you can see, it needed some attention: Some of the 'weeds' in the picuture is the mint that I naively planted 10 years ago when we built my garden box. It is the most invasive plant known to man! My plants benefited from the new soil too.

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Gardening Garden Flowers and Plants Cleaning 127

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MAY 10, 2011

Last year, I chronicled my box garden conversion from random planting to the more calculated method, known as Square Foot Gardening. I had great success, but at the end of the season, I vowed that in 2011, I was going to replace all of the dirt in my box with new soil following the Square Foot Gardening recipe for a soil mix.

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Gardening Garden Compost Composting 147

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AUGUST 4, 2011

Use water collected from dehumidifier to water your garden and flower pots. It fills up quickly on sweltering days and I use that water for my flower pots. When waiting for the hot water to heat up from the faucet, trap water in a jug or bucket and use it to water your garden and flower containers.

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Saving Money Flowers and Plants Money Dehumidifiers 174

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APRIL 21, 2011

I was just starting to garden, and quite frankly I had no idea what a compost was until I saw the ad for the seminar. I don't really time myself, but when the compost is crumbly and dark brown, I add it to the garden or flower beds. Unfortunately, my bins are in a full sun corner of my garden. Do you have a compost?

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Compost Composting Backyard Flowers and Plants 214

Saving With Shellie

APRIL 26, 2011

When it comes to Mother’s Day, one of the most classic gifts is flowers. ProFlowers has a huge variety of flowers, plants and other gifts. You see, she is very particular about her flowers. ProFlowers has been connecting consumers with fresh-from-the-field flowers since 1998. But it turned our perfectly.

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ProFlowers Flowers and Plants Giveaway Flowers and Gifts 58

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APRIL 28, 2011

I have been trying for years to add more fruit to my garden space. The sweetest, most tasty cantaloupe I have ever eaten was from my garden. The plants take up so much space and grew out of my box and spilled into the yard. The plants dried up. Raspberries I bought these plants at a yard sale last year.

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Growing Gardening Garden Flowers and Plants 127