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Garden Plans - Be Inspired by Other Gardeners' Garden Ideas. Egg Shells and Toilet Paper Rolls: One Man. You don't have to go to a fancy nursery to start greening your home.

Egg Shells and Toilet Paper Rolls: One Man

In fact, chances are you have everything already in your house or apartment to kickstart your own nursery. All you need is a few seeds, a little soil, a good light source, and some simple materials to use for containers to get your own garden going. Here's a round up of four of the more clever—and free—ways to get your seeds started before transferring to larger pots, using recycled items like toilet paper rolls, eggs shells and newspaper: Egg shells: make a delicious egg breakfast for friends or family and then use your discarded shells to plant.

Using a small spoon, drop some soil and your seeds into the shell, place by the windowsill for a few days, and watch them sprout. Toilet paper rolls: Usually the end of a roll of toilet paper signals disaster, but this idea for toilet paper planters should help. 17 Apart: Growing Celery Indoors: Never Buy Celery Again.

Remember when we tested and shared how to grow onions indefinitely last week?

17 Apart: Growing Celery Indoors: Never Buy Celery Again

Well, at the same time, we've been testing out another little indoor gardening project first gleaned from Pinterest that we're excited to share the successes of today — regrowing celery from it's base. We've figured out how to literally re-grow organic celery from the base of the bunch we bought from the store a couple weeks ago. I swear, we must have been living under a rock all these years or just not be that resourceful when it comes to food, but we're having more fun learning all these new little tips and tricks as we dive deeper into trying to grow more of our own food.

This project is almost as simple as the onion growing project — simply chop the celery stalks from the base of the celery you bought from the store and use as you normally would. In our case, we had a particular homemade bean dip that needed sampling! PHOTOS: Stunning Mason Jar Crafts. How to Make a Kitchen Planter Box for Herbs. Best Indoor Plants. Best Indoor Plants. Mother Nature's Best Fertilizers and Bug Repellents. Gardening naturally with the best repellents and fertilizers helps keep your yard and garden safe for everyone.

Mother Nature's Best Fertilizers and Bug Repellents

This guide is about mother nature's best fertilizers and bug repellents. Read and rate the best solutions below by giving them a "thumbs up". Article: Mother Nature's Best Fertilizers and Bug Repellents Most of us are trying to live a more natural and healthy lifestyle by cutting out most of the chemicals in our lives. But a lot of us don't think about this when we are planning and maintaining our gardens and lawns.

For the last couple of years, I have been researching and using natural methods for fertilizing and getting rid of pests in my garden. Natural Fertilizers I am going to start with some easy fertilizers that you might not have thought of. Coffee Fertilizer Put into an old plastic bottle what is left of your morning coffee. Fish Tank Water When doing a tank cleaning, save all the water to go into your garden. Manure Tea or Top Dressing Eggshell Top dressing Fireplace Ashes. Vegetable Spacing Guide". Easy vegetables to grow. Planting a garden doesn’t have to be a huge undertaking.

Easy vegetables to grow

But the fear of failure keeps many a gardener-wannabe from spending time and energy on planting backyard crops. Knowing the easy vegetables to grow for your region — in addition to when and where to plant them — is the best way to ensure success. When planning your crops, try to space out the planting of foods that have a short harvest season. An ideal garden will always have something to put on the table, rather than an abundant period and then a dry spell with nothing growing. Some of the easiest garden goods for first timers are yellow squash and zucchini, potatoes, radishes and tomatoes.

Squash plants can be planted into small hills, and are ready to eat when they are about 6 inches in length. Radishes are another no-brainer crop. Strawberries are popular for their ability to grow in many places and for their sweet, tangy taste and beautiful appearance. Tomatoes are possibly the most popular garden vegetable. Bottles "Pop" - DIY Garden Edging. Not Just for Spaghetti - DIY Planters. RHS Plant Selector. Garden Guides, Your Guide to Everything Gardening - StumbleUpon.

15 houseplants to improve indoor air quality. Just in Time for Winter: How to Build Your Own Mini-Greenhouse. Gardeners looking to extend the growing season into winter can do so with a cold frame.

Just in Time for Winter: How to Build Your Own Mini-Greenhouse

These handy mini-greenhouses trap heat and keeping cool-season veggies growing in spite of frosty weather. Cold frames are inexpensive to build and don't consume a lot of energy. They yield fresh, local vegetables when mediocre grocery store fodder is being shipped from afar. Fall is the perfect time to build a cold frame and start planting. This modular cold frame design offers two frame options: single- and double-tier. The lid should be kept shut on cold days and propped open for ventilation on unseasonably warm days. WOOD SELECTION: Cedar is best. WOODCUTTING 1 — Each 10-foot, 1 x 12-inch board will yield one 60-inch front/back panel and one 40-inch side panel. 2 — For the two-angled side panels, choose the most flawless 40-inch side panel and mark a diagonal line lengthwise, from corner to corner. 4 — Cut the lid pieces from the 1 x 6-inch lengths of cedar.

Text by Wilder Quarterly.