Planning Your Corn Crop
If you've never grown corn before, check with a local farm or garden store, a neighbor who raises corn or your Cooperative Extension Service agent before you buy seeds. They can tell you what varieties do particularly well in your area, as well ... [... more]
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Bed Planting
A good potato crop starts with good seed potatoes. A garden store will have certified seed potatoes that are free of disease. Don't rely on old potatoes from your root cellar because they could be carrying disease organisms without showing ... [... more]
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Getting Started With Potatoes
Since most home gardeners start potatoes by cutting and planting last season's tubers, common sense says you should use the healthiest tubers possible. How do you acquire disease-free potatoes for planting? Simple, go to a good garden store in ... [... more]
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How to grow tomatoes from a seed/ harvest vegetable seeds
It may be easier to go by your local garden store for starter vegetables, but the satisfaction and reward of starting them yourself is well worth it. Not to mention the money you will save on starter plants as well as on shopping from the grocery ... [... more]
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Peppers and Eggplant in Containers
Peppers and eggplant are good container gardening choices because of their relatively compact size and growth habit. To get going, buy some plants at your local garden store or start seeds indoors under lights. You'll also need containers to ... [... more]
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How Beans Grow
If you've ever walked by containers of bulk seed in a garden store, you may have been surprised by the many different colors, sizes and shapes of the beans -- even by the variety of designs on the seed coats and their descriptive names: ... [... more]
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Householder's Survival Manual
 Amazon.com Review: If you've recently made the leap from apartment dweller to clueless homeowner, buy Reader's Digest's Householder's Survival Manual and don't let it out of your sight. Take it to the cavernous home and garden store where you will now be [... more]
$29.95
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How to Build an Easy Sandbox
Most kids love playing in a sandbox. With a little time and these easy instructions, you can build a sturdy, wooden sandbox in your own backyard. Purchase the supplies at a home and garden store such as Home Depot or Lowe's. They also sell the ... [... more]
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Potted History: The Story of Plants in the Home
British Potted Plants through the Ages: Everyone knows how highly praised are the charms of an English country garden. But how about an English indoor garden? For centuries, Britons have been bringing plants indoors for various reasons - for fashion, for [... more]
$36.58
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Attracting Birds, Butterflies & Other Winged Wonders to ...
Wonderful book on many levels: This is a beautiful book which can enjoyed on many levels. It reads like both a how to book as well as a tale of a gardener transforming spaces into gardens that attract birds and butterflies. The photographs are so [... more]
$14.95
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Continuous Color: A Month-by-Month Guide to Flowering ...
Continuous Color-- A Continuous Hit!: When Continuous Bloom was released a couple of years ago, my gardening friends and I thought we'd died and gone to heaven. It was the first book ever to speak to the Midwestern perennial garndener, and to do so with [... more]
$55.00
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GKI/Bethlehem Lighting Indoor/Outdoor 50-Lamp 5mm ...
Features: 50-lamp light string with warm white 5mm wide-angle LED lights and white cord Bright, true color that lasts 3000 hours; patented external lamp lock and UV protection for reliable, durable performance Cool to the touch and energy efficient; [... more]
$40.00
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