TIPS ON SAVING AND STORING SEEDS Your garden is planted for the season. What should you do with those leftover seeds? Should you store them? If so, how? How long will they remain viable? The good news is that properly stored, this year’s seeds will last about three years. Here are some tips for proper […]
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HOW TO USE FALL LEAVES IN YOUR GARDEN
THOSE AUTUMN LEAVES! 1. Use them to feed your lawn. Chopped up leaves add valuable organic matter and minerals to the lawn. If you don’t have a leaf chopper, simply leave them in place and run over them with a lawn mower several times. 2. Use them as mulch. In the winter, an insulating cover […]
KILL JAPANESE BEETLES NATURALLY
Nature’s Death Trap Paralyzes the Invaders! Are Japanese beetles destroying your roses? Are they attacking your beans? corn? peppers? grapes? apples? cherries? peaches? plums? blueberries? If so, you are definitely are not alone. It is the rare gardener who escapes an invasion of the voracious metallic green pests, whose sole aim is to devour the leaves of approximately […]
HOMEMADE WEED KILLERS
9 Do-It-Yourself Weed Killing Tips —Environmentally Friendly, No Pesticides! What to do with those leftover cocktails? . . . Got a patch of sprouting weeds? The perfect place to toss cocktails left over from a party! (Any form of alcohol will work to dehydrate small weeds — from rubbing alcohol to whiskey.) Destroy poison ivy and poison […]
EASY SEED PACKET SAVER
ORGANIZE YOUR SEED PACKETS It’s hard to organize and store seed packets —especially after they’ve been opened and you want to save the remaining seeds. The seed name or planting instructions might have been torn off, and it’s frustrating to try to store packets in some kind of order so you can easily find what you’re looking […]