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  My New Love: Mini Hydro Gardens

  If there was an award for “creative ideas for small spaces”, mini hydro gardens would win it hands-down. These things are supremely cool, they don...

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  Buying Recycled Products: Awesome Eco

  I'm a huge fan of recycling glass for a number of reasons. Mostly, it's because I'm a huge fan of going barefoot and nothing ruins your day more than ...

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  Eco-Friendly Home Decor

  So it's finally coming down to the wire: Christmas time. We still have about a month of commercial holiday blitzes coming our way, and they will all g...

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  Hurry and Plant Garlic!

  Soon, it's going to be too late to start popping your fall garlic into the ground. In some parts of the country, it's way past that time of year. Howe...

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  Compost: Useful Trash

  It's a sad reality of life that we waste a whole lot of food in this country. It's really a side-effect of how lucky we are when you think about it. A...

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  The Importance of Open Pollinated Seeds

  No discussion of gardening would be complete without a discussion of the pros and cons of using open pollinated (OP) seeds. Many people, especially ga...

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  Don't Forget the Herbs!

  With the weather turning, a lot of people are reluctantly pulling up the remnants of their gardens, forlorn and depressed over another growing season ...

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  Finding Beeswax Lip Balm Kits

  Let's start off with a fairly simple statement: bees are completely awesome. Not only do we have them to thank for most of the fruits and nuts that...

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  Keeping Garden Pests Away

  Some gardeners use mothballs in the landscape to deter squirrels, chipmunks, mice, snakes, and other critters. This practice is an illegal use of a re...

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  Treating Blossom End Rot

  With large quantities of rain followed by a general lack of rain, many tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants are likely to developed blossom end rot. This ...

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