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Outdoors. Herbs, Flowers and Growing from seeds.. 66 Things You Can Grow At Home: In Containers, Without a Garden - Planet Green. Gardening/Community Gardens. 7 Cheap But Beautiful DIY Garden Decor Ideas. I must be painting a terrible portrait of myself.

7 Cheap But Beautiful DIY Garden Decor Ideas

Lazy gardener. Lazy cleaner. Cheap organizer. Pest poisoner extraordinaire. I'm also incredibly cheap when it comes to garden decor. You can make these pieces from things you have around the house, items you've collected, salvaged, or thrifted, and some of the cheapest supplies your local Lowe's has to offer. Bonus: Nothing here is hard to make. Stepping Stones -- These are deceptively simple to make, and it’s one project where you determine the budget and materials. Luminaries -- These are particularly great around the patio, or in a sitting space you’ve created out in the garden. Bird Baths -- There are nine million ways to make a birdbath.

Copper Trellis -- This is one of my favorite pieces to make, and it creates big impact in the garden. Hypertufa Leaf Casting -- Hyper-wha? Tea-cup Birdfeeder -- I love these, especially using thrifted vintage cups -- the really delicate ones -- and putting them in a group at varying heights. Home - Plants and Healers International. Top Low Maintenance Perennials with Beautiful Flowers. Best Gardening Websites: Online Tools To Guide Your Green Thumb. From Mother Nature Network's Ramon Gonzalez: A Google search can help you find many online gardening resources, but the amount of information can be overwhelming, and there's no guarantee that the top search results will be written by knowledgeable gardeners or even answer your questions.

Best Gardening Websites: Online Tools To Guide Your Green Thumb

Experienced gardeners have their favorite gardening websites and resources bookmarked for easy reference. If you're just getting started with gardening, you may not know where to start. Below we've compiled a number of websites and resources to help you get your garden off the ground this year. With so much free gardening information available online, there's no reason you can't grow a successful garden. List and captions courtesy of MNN Loading Slideshow. Gardening. Bottle Drip Irrigation. I prefer to have the bottle standing right-way-up as I think it looks nicer and it keeps debris out of the bottle thus keeping the holes from blocking.

Bottle Drip Irrigation

The materials: * 2 litre plastic soft-drink bottle or water bottle * Sharp small screwdriver, pointed hole-maker or drill This can be used in container gardening, raised bed gardens and open vegetable gardens. Using your pocket knife, make 2 small slits in the bottom of your bottle. Make two more small slits half way up your bottle. Dig a hole next to your tomato plant. This will slowly deep-water your tomato plants and most other vegetable plants. You can learn more about this on another website. Only two very small holes are needed at the lowest place on the bottle. I prefer to leave the lids off. Place bamboo stakes next to each bottle. Here I am making another hole slightly higher up the bottle. However, if I remove the lid, water will come out this hole as well as the holes in the base.

Save Money & Eat Healthier By Gardening. Growing Herbs, Planting Herbs, How to Grow Herbs. The best tips for growing herbs indoors, outdoors, and in container herb gardens.

Growing Herbs, Planting Herbs, How to Grow Herbs

Learn how to plant and care for herbs when home gardening. Plant a kitchen herb garden to supply fresh herbs to spice up your meals. Design Your Own Vegetable Garden Layout Using our Free "Vegetable Garden Planner" Software! Why Grow an Herb Garden? The practice of planting herbs has been undertaken on every continent for hundreds of years. Herbs, natural products and growing. Garden II.

10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks. Gardening is one of the most rewarding home hobbies you can do.

10 Killer DIY Garden Hacks

It's fun, sustainable and you get healthy, tasty results. A lot of people like the idea of gardening but find excuses like it's too time consuming, it's too expensive, they don't have enough space, blah blah blah. There's no room for excuses when going green, all you need is a little initiative and a little ingenuity to overcome these so called excuses. Here are 10 killer garden hacks that can help you save time, space and money while satisfying your green thumb... 1. Vertical Gutter Garden When Suzanne Forsling moved to Juneau Alaska from Iowa, she found that it was a little bit harder to get her garden to grow. 2. Reclaimed Tire Garden If you have some old tires laying around that you don't know what to do with, you could burn them... if you hate the environment, or you could put them to work as cool looking raised garden beds. 3. DIY Earth Box An Earth Box is more than just a box with soil. Free Planting Supplies.

Gardening. Growing Herbs - How To Grow Herbs.