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DIY Backyard Greenhouses - How to Make a Greenhouse

15 DIY Greenhouses That Will Beautify Your Backyard

Kitchen Garden~ rows of red lettuces, green lettuce, kale, pak choi, salad greens, flowers

raised beds around patio w/break(s) to walk in/out of the yard? Intensive Gardening: Grow More Food in Less Space (With the Least Work!) - Organic Gardening - from MOTHER EARTH NEWS

List of flowers to plant in your vegetable garden and why they are a good idea Homestead Revival: Adding Flowers To The Vegetable Garden

List of flowers to plant in your vegetable garden and why they are a good idea Homestead Revival: Adding Flowers To The Vegetable Garden

Growing peppers. Peppers hate nitrogen/commercial fertilizer. Wait until plants flower before fertilizing. Then spray leaves with 1 tsp of Epsom salt to 1qt of water (peppers need Magnesium to set fruit). Peppers also enjoy small amounts of potassium (wood ashes).

Bell Pepper*they hate nitrogen/commercial fertilizer* Wait til plants flower before fertilizing. Then spray leaves w/ 1 tsp Epsom salt in 1 qt water (peppers need Magnesium to set fruit). Peppers also enjoy small amounts of potassium (wood ashes)

how to weave a raised flower bed, compost bin, planter cover or fence! Straight up DIY basket-weaving!

how to weave a raised flower bed, compost bin, planter cover or fence! Straight up DIY basket-weaving! Cute way to disguise the compost bin.

Step Stone concreto (Taioba)
"Spray your weeds with diluted vinegar...not only will it kill them, but the plants and soil love it. Read how here, and see the before and after pictures. I just learned about this in my winter gardening class the other day and the teacher has done it for years."

Spray your weeds with diluted vinegar.not only will it kill them, but the plants and soil love it. Read how here, and see the before and after pictures. I just learned about this in my winter gardening class the other day and the teacher has done it for

Best Seed Tape Ever. You Guessed It, Toilet Paper. Planting Tiny Seeds Is Easy With This Simple Gardening Trick.

Best seed tape ever! Yup you guessed it toilet paper! Planting tiny seeds is easy with this simple gardening trick! Tip: Alternate carrot seeds with radish seeds

Garden pests hate the smell of Irish Spring! Deer, mice and squirrels!

Irish Spring and a cheese grater. Apparently squirrels hate the smell of the soap, so they'll stay out of your garden. as well as deer and mice. Rather than grate it, I cut chunks of Irish Spring soap.

Strawberry Pallet Pl

How to Make a Strawberry Pallet Planter Project The Homestead Survival - Gardening DIY Life

great variety of raised bed designs, with dimensions (for purchase, apparently -- but why not diy?)

Raised bed gardening layouts [decorative old outhouse finally fell down. put middle right-hand bed where it used to be but with a bench on the side facing the creeks.

Tips on growing fig trees! (Ficus carica, or 'Brown Turkey' fig)

How to grow: figs

Once established, figs are a drought tolerant fruit tree! Tips on growing fig trees! (Ficus carica, or 'Brown Turkey' fig)

Natural Pesticides for Plants. These are less expensive than buying commercial pesticides and much safer to use.

Homemade Organic Insecticides and Pesticides All-Purpose Insecticide Spray Basic Insecticidal Soap Spider Mite Spray

raised beds for a traditional potager garden:
PVC is a long-lasting, easy to work with material for outdoor frames and supports.data-pin-do=

PVC Framed Garden Box Enclosures - Of Mice and Mountain Men Blog - GRIT Magazine

Raised garden idea with a small fence to protect the plants from pesky little critters