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Growing Fall Decor
Published on 22 Oct 2006 at 2:29 pm.
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One of the things I have never grown well before, until this year, are chinese lanterns. I had plantd them from seed, and they didn’t do well at all. They grew, but only about six or eight inches high, and they had few lanterns on them. […]
Shingles Revisisted
Published on 7 Oct 2006 at 2:00 pm.
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You may remember a previous blog post about the shingled pathway I made into the woods from my yard (picture on the left), and a walkway I made inside my vegetable garden (picture on the right). The instructions on how I did these are on this blog […]
The “No Dig” Garden
Published on 19 Aug 2006 at 7:45 pm.
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Although I love gardening, I am not that wild about all the “prep” work that it can take to prepare the ground for garden planting. I can be lazy about some of that kind of stuff, so finding a way to get around all the digging and […]
Garden Tool Vine Supports
Published on 7 Aug 2006 at 4:33 pm.
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I love when I get ideas from readers. This blog entry was prompted by pictures sent in by Kathy Pfaff of Erie, Pa. She “repurposes” rusted or broken garden tools into vine supports. Click on the pictures and you’ll get a bigger view of a hoe […]
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Yippee, it’s broken!
Published on 22 Jul 2006 at 6:36 pm.
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Okay, okay. So maybe that’s NOT the reaction you have to things you break - especially if those things are family heirlooms, or have sentimental value. But there are things you can do with the “remains”, even if they are. Or maybe you have “broken” things […]
More Cement Projects
Published on 8 Jul 2006 at 7:00 pm.
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The cement rock project I wrote about started people mixing! My friend, Charlie Koegel, is making his own cement lawn ornaments. He took a really creative approach to what he used for molds.
For this project, he used two plastic pot saucers - one two inches bigger […]
Shingled Pathway
Published on 3 Jul 2006 at 4:00 pm.
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They were a great color combination for this project. They looked fairly natural once I put them down. And speaking of putting them down, the process was very simiar to the walkway.
I weed whacked the overgrowth, laid down many layers of newspaper and then just dropped […]
Make Your Own Walkway
Published on 29 Jun 2006 at 4:42 pm.
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Anyway, back to my sidewalk. I wanted to make a small one to start, just to see how hard it was. So I made one that was nine feet long and six feet wide. I put it in leading up to a seating area in my […]
Stone Art
Published on 20 Jun 2006 at 5:09 pm.
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This weather is so conducive to being outside - I just find myself designing more things outdoors these days. This newest design is really simple to make - yet really, really beautiful. You’ll see that this one is placed in a small steam, but the design would work […]
Father’s Day Frugal
Published on 18 Jun 2006 at 5:57 pm.
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One of the things I have in common with my father is a love of gardening. So, for today’s blog entry, I wanted to share a frugal gardening idea - something that the guys in my life have thought was not only cool and fairly easy to […]
