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Go Green This Halloween

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We do put up decorations (ones I buy at garage sales or thrift stores and reuse each year). Tip # 2 Recycle/reuse costumes. Mom’s black cape, some makeup and a piece of cardboard cut and painted black to make bats ears can make someone into Dracula. Compost it by cutting it up and putting it on the pile.

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Ways To Reuse Old Items For Your Container Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

As the shell breaks down, it acts as part of the compost , and it is also a natural slug repellent. Container Garden Ideas As you create your container garden, think of the items that you might be able to reuse. What ideas do you have for reusing items in your gardening efforts? Plant your little seeds in the bottom part.

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Using Kids Crafts to Teach the Gift of Giving

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Petroleum jelly to slather on the inside of the mold, so you can get the concrete out and reuse the mold. I already had the Vaseline ,a wooden paint paddle and the water was readily available. A trowel or some other tool to get the cement out of the container and into your mold. A mold to shape your garden stone to the shape you want.

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