Category Archives: Gardening Tips & Tricks

Turning a stump into a flower planter

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Below is a picture of what was left of one of our favorite trees that we had pretty much babied for 5 years. While we considered ripping it out of the ground with a bull dozer or grinding the stump down, neither option seemed right so we decided to let it live another life. In
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Creating a raised garden bed – in just a few hours

The location for the planting bed

Last year’s gardening attempts were a disaster at our place, mainly due to our busy schedules. While we managed to get plenty of squash and a few other vegetables from it, most of the crop was lost to the pasture grass that simply overtook the garden. We are going to alleviate that problem this year
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Composting Leaves – a quick guide

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In the November Monthly Home Maintenance Checklist, we recommended composting your leaves instead of simply disposing of them. Why, wouldn’t it be easier to just rake them up and either burn them, or just bag them and send them off to the landfill? Well, not really, when you think about, besides you do not get
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