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Three Dogs in a Garden

I found this article on the Hometalk website. It discusses a variety of plants that are both invasive and difficult to remove. Some send roots underground. Others send runners above ground that take root and create new plants. There are 10 plants included in this article, many of which are beautiful. If you love any of these plants and want to include them in your garden, one option is to segregate them in their own flower beds and watch them carefully.

One example is Lily of the Valley. It has beautiful, fragrant flowers but can spread quickly. This is a flower that you want to isolate in a controlled bed.

Click on the Gardener Beware: Plants That Should Come With a Warning Label! link below to read about the other plants.

Gardener Beware: Plants That Should Come With a Warning Label!

How to Make a Mini Garden

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This is a nice video that demonstrates how to make a Mini Garden (Also known as a Fairy Garden). These are small container gardens that are often landscaped and contain a variety of plants, a focal point like a ceramic house, and other features like tiny stone paths.

These are real gardens and are really growing in popularity. There are online website shops that sell miniature bird baths, benches, fencing, furniture and more. It’s perfect for people who have no space for gardening or have health or mobility problems.

Click on the How to Make a Mini Garden link below to see the video.

How to Make a Mini Garden

How to Prepare Leftover Coffee Grounds for the Garden

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Adding coffee grounds to garden soil can improve the levels of acidity, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, and copper. In this article, Rosemary first explains how she prepares coffee grounds so that they don’t get moldy. This method gives you a supply of coffee grounds that you can use to directly apply to soil (not compost).

She explains which flowers like coffee grounds, and one vegetable in particular that benefits from coffee grounds. Rosemary also shares some surprising uses for coffee grounds – for example, deterring pesky animals and bests. She reveals some other surprising uses. Very nice article!

Click on the How to Prepare Leftover Coffee Grounds for the Garden link below to read this interesting article.

How to Prepare Leftover Coffee Grounds for the Garden

How to Harvest Lettuce in a Container Garden

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In this short video, Mike demonstrates how he harvests lettuce from a container in his urban garden. One of the neat things about lettuce is that if you harvest it correctly, the plant continues to grow new lettuce leaves. Nice video!

Click on the How to Harvest Lettuce in a Container Garden link below to see the video.

How to Harvest Lettuce in a Container Garden

How to Plant Lettuce in Containers

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This is one of the better gardening videos I’ve seen. It features Christy Wilhelmi of Gardenerd. She has a very nice presentation style and knows her gardening. Christy explains the basics of planting lettuce in pots and containers:

Pot selection
Sunlight requirements
Soil
How to plant the lettuce

Click on the How to Plant Lettuce in Containers link below to learn how to plant lettuce in containers.

How to Plant Lettuce in Containers

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How to Take Down your Gutter Downspouts and Replace them with Rain Chains and Barrels – DIY

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Rain chains are a beautiful alternative to closed gutter downspouts. They attach at the top of the gutter and hang down the side of the house and into a rain barrel or water collection receptacle. Rain chains often have small cups to slow the fall of water down into a rain barrel. They’re both practical and a beautiful water treatment. The Japanese have used rain chains for hundreds of years.

In this article, Robert demonstrates how he removed a downspout and installed a rain chain over his rain barrel.

You can see examples of rain chains on this page at Amazon.

Click on the Take Down your Gutter Downspouts and Replace them with Rain Chains and Barrels link below to read Robert’s article.

How to Take Down your Gutter Downspouts and Replace them with Rain Chains and Barrels – DIY

Simple & Quick Garden Markers You Can Make at Home

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Garden markers are used to mark the location and name of the plants, flowers and herbs that you’ve planted. It helps to keep everything straight when the garden is in full bloom.

In this article, Britta explains how to make really simple garden markers with flat stones, a particular type of paint and 1 other product.

Click on the Simple & Quick Garden Markers You Can Make at Home link below to see the complete tutorial.

Simple & Quick Garden Markers You Can Make at Home

How to Save BIG Money on Lumber Supplies for Raised Bed Garden

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Mom With a Prep first has a great tip on preparing ground before building a raised bed garden. She also explains how she installs and plants her own raised bed garden.

However, the biggest tip she shares is how to get the lumber that you need for raised bed gardening at a significant discount. For example, she got cedar planks at $2 a plank (which an amazing discount!) It’s a simple and easy tip that you can use too.

To learn the tip, click on the How to Save BIG Money on Lumber Supplies for Raised Bed Garden link below.

How to Save BIG Money on Lumber Supplies for Raised Bed Garden

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