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Front Yard Landscaping: Spring Clean Up!

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In place of wood chips, we buy leaf compost from our township. I also need to figure out what we are going to plant under our bay window. We have planted several things there and they have not survived. While plants in other areas of the landscape have flourished. Do It Yourself Landscaping: Take 2.

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

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Just in case you are not acquainted with these, a garden stepping stone is a big stone, or cement molded to look like a flat rock, that is decorated and then placed on the ground or in a garden to walk on – so you don’t tromp the plants. The most expensive was around $20. Should You Line Dry Your Clothes? Driving across.

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