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Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Mar 5, 2025

Preparing Your Garden for Early March Planting

Early March is prime time for prepping your garden beds, especially if you’re in North Jersey or NYC. With the right steps, you can kickstar...

Feb 5, 2025

Preparing Your Garden for Spring: Soil Testing and Amendment Strategies

As gardeners, we wait all winter for the smell of fresh-cut grass and the taste of warm, vine-ripened tomatoes. But before those dreams beco...

Apr 27, 2015

Can you use LED lights to start Vegetables?

I've been replacing many of the frequently used light bulbs in my home with LED bulbs and wanted to see if I could also use LED light ...

Mar 23, 2015

Cheap Seed Starting Table Plans

Free woodworking plans to build a small seed starting bench with lights or that can be placed in front of a south facing window. Startin...

Mar 17, 2015

DIY Printed Plant Labels

Learn how to print your own pot stick style plant labels and give the plants you grow from seed a neater appearance. I've been looki...

Feb 28, 2015

Narrow Seed Starting Shelves

These woodworking plans are to build narrow seed starting shelves that will hold 8 trays but conserve space. They'll even fit on the s...

May 25, 2014

Easy Store Cold Frame Plans

Wish you had a cold frame for starting seeds or extending your growing season but you don't have the room for them? Here are step-by-s...

May 5, 2014

Growing Giant Sunflowers From Seeds

This spring I was given a bunch of giant sunflower seeds from a relative. They may be mammoth? I really don't know. All I now is they...

May 4, 2014

Seed Starting Grow Lights: Build Or Buy?

If you want a plant light for starting seeds indoors you can buy one or build your own. I'll compare the pros and cons of buying vs bu...

Dec 2, 2013

Ideas For Keeping USFG Raised Bed Warm In Winter

I'm growing my first winter garden after building a Ultimate Square Foot Garden Raised Bed . To hold the greenhouse fabric in place I...

Oct 24, 2013

Winter Square Foot Garden 2013

I was so excited to have built my first Square Foot Garden based on my raised bed plans that I wanted to put it to use right away by try...

Sep 2, 2013

Connecting Multiple Drip Irrigation Zones To A Garden Hose

Designing my Square Foot Garden raised beds got me thinking about installing drip irrigation in other parts of the landscape. To handle d...

Sep 1, 2013

How To Draw A Landscape Plan With Sketchup

Having a landscape drawing allows you to quickly plan changes to your landscape as well as measure the square footage of your beds and law...

Aug 31, 2013

How Milk Treats Plant Disease

When it comes to organic lawn care and gardening you hear things that sound downright crazy. One of the more odd suggestions is to use a d...

Aug 30, 2013

Controlling Powdery Mildew with Neem Oil

Neem oil is recommended as an organic insecticide and fungicide. There are a number of studies that show its effectiveness for various ins...

Aug 18, 2013

Ultimate Square Foot Garden Bed

I've been thinking about Square Foot Gardening again and even bought the Kindle edition of All New Square Foot Gardening, Second Editi...

Jul 8, 2009

How To Build A Raised Garden Bed

Raised bed gardens don't exactly have much to do with lawn care but one thing that can help your lawn look better is to have it be part ...

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