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Garden Accessories

How Green is Your Greenhouse?

Greenhouses are a great way to grow quality healthy fruits and vegetable on your own all year round.   Recently, growing your own natural and organic gardens has become more and more popular. So it comes as no surprise that many people are now building eco-friendly greenhouses to help grow safe, high quality fruits [...]

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Jump Start Spring With a Portable Greenhouse

Greenhouses are becoming more and more popular for home gardeners, many of whom are considering installing or building one. Since full-sized, regular greenhouses can quite be expensive and costly to maintain, it is probably impractical for home gardeners to build one.
However, there are new and inexpensive portable and mini greenhouses now available for one to [...]

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The 5 Absolutely Essential Garden Tools

Gardening is a healthy, exciting and creative form of exercise that will improve your strength, flexibility and stamina. However, without the right equipment and tools, gardening simply can be a frustrating and difficult chore. Here is my list of the 5 most essential pieces of gardening equipment which simply must be close at hand every [...]

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Five Ways to Add Candle Light to Your Garden

Give your garden some glow with some creative ideas for using candles outdoors. Many materials that you can find right in your house can become receptacles for candles. By using these outdoors, your garden can become a mystical and charming place after dark. Here are five ideas to inspire you:

Create pillars of light by wrapping [...]

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Build Your Wooden Cold Frames and Planting Flats

Now that the no-growing season has set in, and we can’t enjoy being out in the garden, why not use some of that freed-up time to prepare for spring planting. Two essentials for getting your garden off and running in the spring are planting flats and cold frames. Both of these make great woodworking projects [...]

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Start Your Growing With a Hobby Greenhouse

For people who would like to do more gardening but live in a short growing season area, a hobby greenhouse is the answer.  A hobby greenhouse is not large enough to produce vegetables or flowers on a commercial basis.  It will, however, give you a place for a tomato plant or two and some fresh [...]

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How to Make Your Own Garden Containers

Are you tired of paying big dollars for useful garden containers? Sure, you want your containers to be attractive as well as useful, but you can pay over $100 for a large ceramic or terracotta container. Instead, why not make some containers from hypertufa.

What’s hypertufa? Hypertufa planters are a lightweight and durable alternative to planters [...]

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