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Vol. 3, Num. 6, February 7, 2008 (Read It Online) We are happy to announce that Ellen Brown is back as our Garderning Expert! If you have a gardening question for Ellen and the ThriftyFun community, feel free to post it here: http://www.thriftyfun.com/post_request.ldml Thanks for reading, Susan
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Tips: Use three color families - two that "match" (the tall angelonia and the petunias); one "contrast" (the yellow zinnia); and one "complementary" to the other colors (silver trailing dichondra). At least one plant should be upright and one trailing. The others can be a mix of upright, mid-height, and trailing. The possibilities are endless! (The tubular flower in the foreground is a calla lily.) By Shirley from Topeka, KS
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To decorate your clay pots and saucers for this gardening season, here is an idea: Supplies
InstructionsLay newspaper on ground and set paint tray on newspaper for easy clean-up. Pour some of the first color of paint into a paint tray. Turn the clay pot upside down and dip the rim of the clay pot into paint then turn the clay pot right side up and let paint run down the edge of pot. Let dry. Next day, pour the second color of paint into paint tray, follow same procedure for this color paint (dipping clay pot rim into paint then let paint run down the edge of clay pot over the first color of paint). Do clay saucer same way to match. Let dry before potting your plant in your newly decorated pot and saucer. You can match room decor with your paint colors plus using left-over paint you may already have. This will help save our environment too.By Linda from Fort Walton Beach, FL Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf60723083.tip.html
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Rate It: Grow A Holiday Tree Year Round Grow a "Holiday Tree" and keep it alive. Why take our gift of life from it? Give a live plant, not just a harvested plant. CO2 is their food, let them eat MORE. They breath out Oxygen. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf17984212.tip.html
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Rate It: If you have house plants with thin vines that do not stand up with a stick, I have used a wooden 5 fingered back scratcher to hold these vines up. Put fingers upward and vines slide nicely between fingers. This works great and does not hurt your vines of the plant. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf33296231.tip.html
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Rate It: Pretty soon it will be time to clean up what Old Man Winter left behind. I have raspberries and, come every spring, winter has left me broken branches, I'm sure the birds also help in the process. Don't throw them away, they make GREAT marking sticks to mark off where you've planted your other plants. Break them off about 6-7 inches, stick enough in the ground where you've planted some thing and you should have enough to put the package of what you planted over the top of stick. Cut the bottom off the package, don't want to look at it upside down. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf49152906.tip.html
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African Violet's Leaves are Turning Yellow I recently repotted an African Violet from the small plastic container it was purchased in to a ceramic 'African Violet pot' (two pieces, the top is the pot which absorbs water by direct contact with water kept in the bottom). Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf39337367.tip.html
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Rate It: Are Raised Beds Better for a Vegetable Garden? My late husband was the vegetable gardener, he passed away last yr. My daughter tried to do some in his honor but it didn't work out. I would like to try again with a few that we enjoy, like tomatoes, peppers, onions, potatoes, etc. I have seen on TV people doing raised gardens. Is this a better way to do them and what needs to be done. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf31637664.tip.html
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Rate It: How do you get asparagus ferns to sprout fronds? I have one that has exactly four fronds. It's been this way for years. Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf72579867.tip.html
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Rate It: Growing a Tree from a Willow Cutting Can someone please tell me how to take a cutting from a willow tree and how to get the cutting to grow? I live in CT. Thanks so much Post Feedback: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf35250097.tip.html
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