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Ten Tips for Buying from Plant and Seed Catalogs

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Every January we are inundated with seed, plant and flower catalogs. Here are some tips for you to consider when buying seeds, bulbs, roots or plants from a catalog or online source. Luscious strawberries, ripe juicy peaches, beautiful tulips, smoke trees, pine trees , oak trees, bleeding heart plants, house plants – everything.

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Book Nook: The Old Farmer's Almanac 2023 Garden Guide

Motherhood Moments

Gardening has never gone out of style, but a surge of new gardeners has sparked an evolution not only in what is being planted but also in how and why gardeners are doing so. This influences how they garden and the tools that they use. The 2023 Garden Guide clears the air on the best air-purifying plants.

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Easy Plant Food Recipes with Three Ingredients or Less

Saving Cents With Sense

Easy Plant Food Recipes with Three Ingredients or Less. Could your plants and flowers use a little pick me up? If so, it sounds like your plants are hungry for a snack, and the perfect plant food can do the trick. Easy Plant Food Recipes with Three Ingredients or Less: 1. But where do you begin?

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Spring Planting Season – Get Ready with Miracle-Gro® Potting Mix

For the Mommas

Spring Planting Season – Get Ready with Miracle-Gro® Potting Mix. Do you dream of big, beautiful flowers on your front porch or juicy tomatoes growing on your patio? This premium potting soil for indoor and outdoor containers is the best way to grow plants twice as big versus unfed plants. ReadySetGro.

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World Wisdom - Budget-Friendly, Sustainable Spring Break Ideas

Motherhood Moments

Ensuring our youngest consumers understand how to reuse and recycle paper products or plant a tree will nurture life-long recycling habits and a respect for the planet.” Using common kitchen tools described in these printable instructions , simply mush up paper and cardboard and sprinkle in flower seeds to make paper.

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How Growing Your Finances Is Like Gardening

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My spouse and I have gained quite a bit of experience planting bushes, trees and flowers over the years. Our two biggest experiences were in planting thousands of pine seedlings from the state nursery on our 40 acre farm (in our younger years)and planting around 3000 spring flowering bulbs on our current 6 acres.

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Natural Solutions for Garden Pests

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We planted our first in-the-ground vegetable garden this year. The previous person who lived here owned a nursery, so there are a whole bunch of beautiful plants and flowering shrubs all around the property. He picked plants that would provide the property with a continuous bloom.

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