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| How To Grow Oak Trees From Acorns
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 Watching a tiny acorn grow into a towering, majestic oak is a rewarding experience for adults and children alike. It's easy, fun, and a great way to leave a legacy for future generations.
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| Posted on: 11/26/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Preparing Your Trees For Winter
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 Fall is one of the most important times of the year to take care of your trees. By taking a little extra time now to prepare you trees for winter, you'll see the results of your efforts well into the next growing season.
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| Posted on: 11/20/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| How to Create a Backyard Sanctuary for Birds
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By Ellen Brown
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 In March 2009, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar released the first ever comprehensive report on bird populations in the United States, which showed that nearly 1/3 of the nation's 800 bird species are either endangered, threatened, or in significant decline.
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| Posted on: 11/17/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Revitalize Your Flowering Shrubs Through Pruning
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By Ellen Brown
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 Without maintenance, most flowering shrubs eventually get overgrown and leggy or they start to lose their flower power. As tempting as it is to yank them out and start over - don't do it! Many can be revitalized with a couple of cost saving pruning techniques.
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| Posted on: 11/12/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Controlling Rabbits In The Garden
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By Ellen Brown
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 They are cute and fuzzy, and only too eager to share the fruits of your gardening labor. Nothing is more frustrating than watching your hard work literally get nipped off at the bud. Here are some tips for helping you win the war against rabbits.
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| Posted on: 11/10/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| How To Overseed Your Lawn
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By Ellen Brown
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 It's no secret that a thick, healthy lawn reduces the need for using water and fertilizer. If your lawn is starting to look thin and tired, and the weeds are starting to creep in, it may be time to give it a boost by overseeding it.
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| Posted on: 11/05/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| How To Make Compost Tea
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By Ellen Brown
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 What do you get when you use a five gallon bucket as a tea pot, a burlap sack as a tea bag, two shovels of compost as tea leaves, and molasses as a sweetener? The answer is compost tea.
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| Posted on: 10/29/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Where to Shop for Bulbs
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By Ellen Brown
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 Bulbs can be purchased in a number places: nurseries, garden centers, home improvement stores, grocery stores, or through mail order catalogs. No one place is necessarily better than another, as long as you know that there are advantages and disadvantages to each.
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| Posted on: 10/27/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Protecting Pine Seedlings From Deer Browsing
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By Ellen Brown
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 Young trees are a favorite snack of hungry deer, especially in the spring and fall while there's still snow on the ground. Most young pines can recover from minor amounts of repeat browsing as long as the terminal bud remains intact.
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| Posted on: 10/22/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Be a Greener Reader
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By Ellen Brown
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 If you like to read, you might be interested to know that it takes somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 trees to print 1,000 books. At first glance this may not sound like much, but consider the fact that about 3 billion books are sold each year worldwide.
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| Posted on: 10/19/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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