One of the best tips I can give a young homemaker is to always save money for flowers. If you don't have a garden and live in an apartment, they can get pretty dreary.
Preparing Your Garden for Fall and Winter
Tips to prepare your garden for the fall and winter from the ThriftyFun community. Right now we are just concentrating on getting as much of the garden produce in the house as possible. Frost threatens tonight!
Here are some unusual object that people have in their garden. I use a bright blue bowling ball as a gazing ball in my garden. I have some others that I plan to paint and sink part way in the garden at different intervals.
Here are ideas for reusing items as planters or pots from the ThriftyFun community. Post your own unusual planter ideas below.
What Would You Plant in Your Victory Garden?
One of our members mentioned that she now considers her patio garden a Victory Garden. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II.
New Containers For Your Plants
New Containers For Your Plants. Did you receive one of those nifty bath baskets for Christmas? Is the basket made of wire? Well, here is a idea to use it after all the bath contents are gone. Line the basket with a coconut basket liner, fill with soil and plant flowers or herbs in it.
Use an old golf bag as a tote to help lug your garden tools out to your garden.
Tips for using beer in the garden. Post your ideas.
Ideas for inexpensive planters. Post your ideas.
One of the pleasurable spin-offs in organic gardening is finding alternative ways of coming up with the same, if not better, end result... Household throwaways can be valuable to the alternate enthusiast. Here are ten recyclable ideas to make gardening a little less hard on the pocket!
What to do with paper cardboard cylinders
How do you use leftover tubes from toilet paper, paper towels and wrap?
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Preparing Your Garden for Fall and Winter
Tips to prepare your garden for the fall and winter from the ThriftyFun community. Right now we are just concentrating on getting as much of the garden produce in the house as possible. Frost threatens tonight!
What Would You Plant in Your Victory Garden?
One of our members mentioned that she now considers her patio garden a Victory Garden. Victory gardens, also called war gardens or food gardens for defense, were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences in the United States, Canada, and United Kingdom during World War I and World War II.
Here are some unusual object that people have in their garden.
I use a bright blue bowling ball as a gazing ball in my garden. I have some others that I plan to paint and sink part way in the garden at different intervals.
Here are ideas for reusing items as planters or pots from the ThriftyFun community. Post your own unusual planter ideas below.
