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How to Make Custom Pavers and Stepping Stones for Your Garden

You can buy molds and make your own pavers in almost any shape you can imagine. By making your own concrete pavers you can get a truly custom design at a fraction of the cost of buying ready made landscaping pavers from places like Lowe's or Home Depo

6 comments    home landscaping walkways
"Watermelon -- it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face."  --  Enrico Caruso 84

Watermelon 911

Near daybreak, waking to a loud and screeching halt that resulted in my nearly being thrown out of the big rig cab bunk -- I was grateful we’d avoided the accident ahead of us. A few minutes later, when...

27 comments    gardening garden florida
Recovering after Surgery for a Bowel Obstruction usually takes up to two to four weeks and it can be very painful depending on the nature of the surgery.82

HOW TO KNOW IF YOU HAVE A BOWEL OBSTRUCTION AND WHAT TO DO BEFORE YOU CALL A DOCTOR

One afternoon I was feeling sick in my stomach .I realised that my ileostomy pouch (bag) had less content in it than when I had checked it the last couple of times . I also noticed that my stoma looked bigger...

2 comments    doctor symptoms surgery
Toads don't live in ponds only breed there81

Toads and frogs

Fed up with slugs and snails eating your plants? Worried about the damage to the environment being done by slug pellets?  Then you need the expert help of the common toad and frog.  But how can you attract...

13 comments    gardens frogs pond
"But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!" -- Bayard Taylor  85

Common Edible Wild Plants - Part II

There were times in my childhood when we were probably poor, but I certainly didn't know it. I didn't connect the right dots, when wild rice cakes, dandelion salad, fried milkweed pods, and day lily fritters...

14 comments    garden plants europe
Garden cloches protect young seedling from harsh weather and pests. Image:(c)2008 Marye Audet86

Portable Garden Cloche

While glass cloches are a charming addition to any garden there are other, less expensive ways to accomplish the same thing. Empty gallon milk cartons, two liter soda bottles, and even chipped Mason jars can find a second life as a garden cloche.

1 comment    how to gardening vegetables
Kit Greenhouse. Image: solar-components.com82

Build Your Own Greenhouse - a step-by-step guide

There are endless ways to build cheap, easy, workable greenhouses. What you choose should depend on what your needs actually are. What type of gardening you do, the plants you intend to grow meed to be considered. Information on the types, including passive solar, pvc and traditionally framed greenhouses.

18 comments    how to home tips
Roof gardens83

Creating and Managing a Roof Garden

Those who have less space need not sacrifice their greenery. As a solution they can create a beautiful garden in their roof. A garden is necessary to complete a home. But, a family who lives in the cities...

4 comments    gardening garden hubmob
Use empty soda bottles and milk cartons as cloches by cutting the bottoms out. Image: Garden Organic79

What To Plant: Plan Your Early Spring Garden

December is the time to begin planning for the early spring garden. There are many cold hardy vegetables that you can plant now for early harvest if you live in a temperate planting zone.

10 comments    how to home gardening
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Simon And Garfunkel: A Time And Place

It is always a sad experience to lose something creative. To close for the last time, a well loved chapter in a beautiful story. An ending to a time and place.

22 comments    music song new york
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