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Front Yard Landscaping: Spring Clean Up!

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We spent the past weekend yanking weeds, trimming the edges, spreading mulch, and sprucing up our front yard landscaping. In place of wood chips, we buy leaf compost from our township. It has been a problem area ever since we re-did our landscaping in 2007. While plants in other areas of the landscape have flourished.

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Start Planning and Budgeting for Summer TODAY!

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It’s FREE and each playground visit is a new experience with different kids to play with and different equipment to explore. Visit a State Park – Do you like to picnic, hike, swim, camp, bike, bird watch, canoe, fish, and spend your free time exploring the great outdoors? How to Start & Maintain a Backyard Compost.

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How to Find Free or Low Cost Gardening Seminars

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Whether you are a novice gardener or a master gardener, there are many free or low cost gardening seminars, workshops, and events happening at this time of year. 3 Tips to Find Free or Low Cost Gardening Seminars and Events. They are also offering free house plant re-potting, crafts for kids, and an Easter egg hunt.

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Square Foot Gardening: Starting Over With New Soil

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Even though I amended the soil in my boxed garden with compost over the years, the majority of the soil was thick, heavy clay that made pulling root vegetables, like carrots, very difficult. The leaf compost was delivered on Friday morning and we started our projects by the afternoon and worked all weekend. Let us know in the comments.

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Summer Fun Guide 2019

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Join my email community HERE and receive FREE Printable 2019 Summer Calendar Pages. It’s FREE and each playground visit is a new experience with different kids to play with and different equipment to explore. This might sound like a lot of work, but it was SO much fun and my kids really enjoyed setting the butterflies free.

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Square Foot Gardening: Spring Clean Up

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We spent Easter weekend sprucing up our front and back yard landscaping. I filled the box up with more leaf compost, because the soil had settled over the past year. If you would like to receive FREE updates of FBS, there are four ways to do so: have updates sent to your email , through your RSS Feed. Now, I'm ready to plant.

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Gardening Tip | Starting with Seeds

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You may have a dedicated space where you grow food, but if you don’t, keep reading because the information here also applies to edible landscaping and container gardening. Some offer resources such as seeds, plants and compost in return for your willingness to share what you grow with friends, neighbors or the local soup kitchen.