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Don’t Dig a Money Pit in Your Garden

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Buy Good Tools And Take Care Of Them. While you don’t need every gardening gadget found at your local home and garden center, you should invest in good tools. General purpose and trench shovels, solid and pliable tine rakes, hoes and mulch forks are all handy long-handled tools. Compost Yard And Garden Waste.

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Guerrilla Gardening And Seed Bombing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Over the years, their “bombs” have taken many different forms, from the first condom-filled versions to mud and clay seed balls to hollowed-out eggs filled with wildflower seeds, compost, and water. The last thing you want to do is introduce invasive species that could take over and potentially kill off all the native plants!

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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

A trowel or some other tool to get the cement out of the container and into your mold. Petroleum jelly to slather on the inside of the mold, so you can get the concrete out and reuse the mold. But before you get too comfortable, clean your tools up – and don’t wash any of the cement down your drains!!!! Now you wait.

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Reviewing The World’s Landfills – A Future Fictional Business Plan Excerpt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

moved from simple dumping on land or sea, to burial, sanitary landfill, feeding to swine, reduction, incineration, and various forms of composting”. A landfill is not like a compost pile, where the purpose is to bury trash in such a way that it will decompose quickly.”. percent, was either recycled or composted.