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A new house has been built in our neighborhood and yesterday the landscapers showed up with 3 truckloads of flowers, trees and shrubs. Hot diggety, I wonder if they will be throwing away all those black pots? I went to investigate. I asked the man in charge if he was planning on throwing away the Read More >>
About a month ago, the Handsome Husband came home with a bunch of free, recycled pallets for me. My original plan was to build a large potato tower with the recycled pallets. However once I started to put the pallets together, I quickly noticed the large structure would be an eye sore. So after staring Read More >>
If you’ve been wondering how to find free containers for your garden, this post is for you! Yesterday, I went to the Home Depot to pick up a gallon of stain for the garden boxes. As I was waiting for my order to be processed, I headed over to the flower section to see if Read More >>
A few weeks ago, before I built Chicken Fort Knox, the hens discovered a garden bed containing my newly planted radish and pea seeds. As usual, they hopped in, scratched around, and left. Leaving me to clean it up. Well, yesterday I finally got around to cleaning up their mess. This is what the radish Read More >>
Although I don’t think growing carrots is rocket science, I thought I would talk about them today. After all, they are one of my favorite “set it and forget it” vegetables to plant. I usually plant carrots twice a year. Once in early spring, and again around the fourth of July. This morning I will Read More >>
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