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• Small Seed Starting Sollutions
  Small seeds are hard to handle and even harder to make sure you plant them all where they should go in the soil or the dirty. I sometimes have issues with not getting enough seeds into my planter, [...]
• Gardening Information about Black Hills Spruce
  Black Hills Spruce (Picea glauca var. densata): It is the state tree of South Dakota and the white spruce variety can be found in many areas west of South Dakota as well. This tree normally grows [...]
• Milk to Garden Jug
  Rinse and save milk cartons in a plastic bag. The next time you are gardening, cut off the bottoms of the carton and the tops of the cartons and place in the ground around young plants to keep away [...]
• More Ways to Acheive a Sustainable Garden
  Native plants also are of tremendous benefit to bees, butterflies and native insects, many of whom have difficulty harvesting and using pollen and nectar from non-native plants. Wild Ones is a [...]
• Getting a Native and Sustainable Garden
  Growing a garden is one of the most important things you can do to go green. Growing what is native in your own area is the best way to achieve that as well. Here are some ways to get that [...]
• Build Willow Edging Around your Garden
  Materials: •18-inch-long willow branches (use green, flexible branches that bend easily) •Long twigs Tools: •Utility Knife • Twine Directions: 1. Using the utility knife, strip the [...]
• Make a Butterbean Pole to help Support any Climbing Plant
  Materials: •Three poles •Twine or wire •1-inch-diameter stick •15 pole beans seeds Directions: 1. To make a one person, three-pole tent, space poles 3 to 4 feet apart to form a [...]
• Two for Two
  The second day of  NaBloPoMo *National Blogger Post Month* and I am 2 for 2 ... WTG, Pamela! This cartoon cracked me up ... if you are a "Baby Boomer" with an empty nest ... you should be ROFL, I [...]
• SECRETS OF SUCCESS
  [caption id="attachment_292" align="alignleft" width="289" caption="SUCCESS"][/caption] There is no secret of success, success is for EVERYONE. Your life becomes better only when you become [...]
• Happy Halloween from Earthly Garden
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