Garden Tricks!

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What an awesome trick! The secret to turning your raised garden bed into a cold frame---just in time for winter.

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A typical house has a roof area of 1,200 square feet and four downspouts that will each drain about 300 square feet of roof. That means a rainfall of 0.3 inches will fill a 55-gallon rain barrel placed under each downspout. 

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How to re-pot orchids

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How to Stain Concrete! Safe and Inexpensive! Using simple and safe ingredients you can change the look of a concrete.

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How to Make a Moss Shower Mat

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Creative Gardening Ideas!

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Solar lighting in garden using electrical insulators

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DIY: How to Create a Walkway with Pallet Wood - tutorial shows how salvaged wood makes a great statement and a useful pathway! 

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Growing green onions in water!

 

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How to Make Glow in the Dark Stepping Stones: 

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The secret to insane planter growth. One ingredient for impressive plants - so easy!

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Outdoor Ideas!

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Making A Dry Creek Bed Drainage Canal for Downspouts. One of the most creative ideas I've seen for this project.

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Planters made from plastic PVC tubes and mosaic tiles. 

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Glowing Flower Pots. Paint flower pots with Rustoleums Glow in the Dark paint. Absorbs sunlight by day glows at night. Great landscape and gardening idea.

 

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Homemade Weed Killer 1 gallon of white vinegar, 1/2 cup salt, Liquid dish soap (any brand), Empty spray bottle. Put salt in the empty spray bottle and fill it the rest of the way up with white vinegar. Add a squirt of liquid dish soap. This solution works best if you use it on a hot day. Spray it on the weeds in the morning, and as it heats up it will do its work. 

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Dog Pond - Place a plastic kiddie pool in the ground. It'd be easy to clean and looks nicer than having it above ground. Big dogs can't chew it up or drag it around. Could work for kids too!

 

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Outdoor Spaces!

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Nice retaining wall

 

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This is almost exactly what I envision... so casual & welcoming! 

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Ooh, someone come do this in my yard, please!

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♥ this find: $10 at a local flea market, this French door, with its glass panes still intact, separates a tenant’s cozy container garden from the homeowner’s yard. The open design of the door and lattice fence creates a sense of enclosure while still allowing views from adjoining spaces. >> This is super! So whimsical and beautiful!

 

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I'd never come down... how very neat! 

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Heaven is a Garden!

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Shade Solutions for Outdoor Rooms

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Solar bricks for patio walk  

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Your secret garden.

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Love the "checkerboard" effect. 

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DIY Shuffleboard Court » This might be my summer project

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Backyard Ideas!

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Back Deck Ideas on a Budget by The Everyday Home

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Side yard path? 

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The 10 best trees to grow in small yards, or small areas.

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A great save for old chair with broken legs! 

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Wine-cork bird house

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Wonderful Garden Tricks!

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51 Budget Backyard DIYs That Are Borderline Genius

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River rock under downspout 

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Intricate paved pathway.

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Turn An Old Tire Into A Gorgeous Planter 

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Flatten a banana peel and bury it under one inch of soil at the base of a rosebush. The peel’s potassium feeds the plant and helps it resist disease. Consider it a nutritional boost for you and your buds.

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