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| Substitute Old Toothbrush for Nail Brush
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I was planting some of my flowers and vegetable plants this afternoon, and after washing my hands, still had dirt caked under my nails. I realized that I don't have a nail brush, so I started glancing around the bathroom, and found a good substitute!
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| Posted on: 08/04/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Use Pine Needles for Mulch
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If you have any pine trees in your yard, use the needles as mulch! I did that in our veggie and flower gardens this year and it really holds up. You would be amazed and how much pine needles are under one tree!
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| Posted on: 07/28/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Sunken Beds for Arid Climates
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 If you garden in an area with poor soil fertility and drainage, you're probably familiar with the advantages of planting in raised beds. Less familiar, however, may be the concept of sunken beds - beds dug down to sit slightly below the soil surface.
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| Posted on: 07/16/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Thrifty Watering Tips
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Thrifty watering is the way to go, especially during Colorado's dry summers. Here are my tips:
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| Posted on: 07/06/2009 | 0 Feedback(s) |
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| Recycle Plastic Bottles to Water Plants
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When it comes to summer time and plants drying out, what I find works, is taking water bottles (like Perrier water bottles found in the recycle box at work), filling them up with water, and then sticking them in soil about 2-3 inches in the soil.
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| Posted on: 07/02/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Garden: Clear VHS Cases For Seedlings
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 When our library decided to get rid of videos in favor of dvds, all the old transparent plastic cases went in the waste bin. This is a cloche made from some that I rescued. Superb for plants and less for landfill!
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| Posted on: 06/25/2009 | 4 Feedback(s) |
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| Vinyl Blinds for Plant Markers
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I take an old plastic Mini-Blind. cut the string to remove slats off the string. Take 3 slats at a time stacked and flush, Start my first cut at the hole for the strings, use that as a size guide cutting down the slat, using up the slat.
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| Posted on: 06/22/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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| Reuse Sheer Curtains for Garden Shade
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Create a simple frame or some way to support fishing line or some type of string then use old sheer drapery panels (cheap at garage sales) and place panels over top and secure to the string or line with clothespins.
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| Posted on: 06/18/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Paint Garden Markers on Rocks
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 We decided to use what we had in abundance to mark our garden rows last year. So we painted the veggie names on large rocks we have all around our house and yard. We simply found some flat-ish rocks and wrote the names on with a paint marker.
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| Posted on: 06/17/2009 | 2 Feedback(s) |
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| Marking Seed Rows
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Put your seed packet row markers in an upside-down closed zip lock bag and secure it with a clothes pin, the rain will stay out and the wind won't blow it away. Also face it away from the direction of the sun and it won't get sun bleached so quickly.
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| Posted on: 06/11/2009 | 1 Feedback(s) |
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