Accueil | Horticulture Week Aluminum Can Plant Markers Thank you for visiting Little House in the Suburbs. Please subscribe and you'll get great simple living tips and how-to articles delivered to your inbox, for free! This is not the easiest way to mark your seedlings. It’s not the most gorgeous. But it’s free, lasts indefinitely and it’s kinda fun. Supplies & Equipment: Aluminum Drink Cans Cheap scissors Dried up ball point pen Straight edge (for the straight plant markers) Impressionable work surface, like the cork back of a place mat or coaster, mouse pad, etc. 1. 2. 3. This is how it will look on the right side now. 4. 6. You can make them any shape you can think of besides the typical “stake”: Soda can aluminum is relatively soft. If you are not feeling up to aluminum can cutting–and I understand completely, a lovely reader sent in her way of using old mini-blind slats, cut into stake form, and labeled with a Sharpie marker.
How to Cut Out a Basic Sewing Pattern Home / RHS Gardening Bonsai of the Day On social media (including Facebook and Twitter) we share a "Bonsai of the Day". The ten most popular trees deserve special attention in this Top 10. Enjoy! (#1) Juniper Bonsai tree by Luis Vila By far the most popular image; A Juniper Bonsai tree by Luis Vila. (#2) Bougainvillea by Lorna Toledo Abundant flowers on this massive Bougainvillea Bonsai, by Lorna Toledo. (#3) Bougainvillea Bonsai by Eko Bonsai Purple flowers on a Bougainvillea Bonsai tree, in Moyogi style, by Eko Bonsai. (#4) Juniper by Peter Ebensperger Spectacular and very unique display. (#5) Adenium Bonsai by Siam adenium Adenium Bonsai tree with bright pink flowers, by Siam adenium. (#6) Deshojo by Michael Multitrunk Deshojo Bonsai (Acer/Maple) with warm autumn colors, by Michael. (#7) Maple Bonsai by Michael Another Maple Bonsai, in fall, added by Michael. (#8) Juniper Bonsai by Jose Luis Blasco Paz Very elegant Juniper Bonsai, in Literati style, breathtaking! (#9) Shohin by Katsumi Komiya (#10) Black pine by Michael Bonsai Links
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15 Homemade Organic Pesticides Back when I started my first garden, a certain celebrity gardener and his books of gardening concoctions were all the rage. You could tell when it was fundraising time on our local PBS station because they'd have him live in the studio, telling us that all we had to do was use items such as baby shampoo, instant tea, and whiskey, and we'd be able to grow our best garden ever. Those claims seemed pretty far-fetched to me back then, and now that I know a little more, I know that several of those concoctions were either just plain bad ideas or that one item in his recipe was the one that was actually doing the work while the rest were either unnecessary or possibly harmful to plants, insects and other soil-dwelling organisms. Pest Control 1. 2. This mixture works because the compounds in garlic (namely, diallyl disulfide and diallyl trisulfide) are irritating or deadly to many insects. 3. 4. Why does this work? 5.