Green Living Archives - Page 10 of 11

mTiP: Flour Power!

| Economical, garden, Garden, Gardening, Green Living, How-To, mTIPS
July 20, 2011

Use flour from the grocery store to mark lines when forming new garden beds.It’s inexpensive, readily available and nontoxic.Any residue will dissolve with water. Kitchen garden “Before”Design drawn with flour. Kitchen garden “After”Turn vision into reality with Flour Power!
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Edibles to Plant Now & Plant Later

| Economical, Fun, garden, Gardening, Green Living, Healthy Living, How-To
May 1, 2011

Organic Red Ursa Kale Common Edibles to Plant Now (cool season crops): Vegetables & Edible FlowersAsparagus- perennial (3 years to harvest)Beets- annualBrocolli-annualBrussels Sprouts- annualCabbage-annualCarrots- annualCauliflower- annualCelery- annualKale- annualLettuce- annualOnion- annualPansy-annualPeas- annualSpinach- annual FruitBlackberry- perennial shrub (2 years to harvest)Grape- perennial vine (3-4 years to harvest)Raspberry- perennial shrub (2 years to...
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Lovin’ Our Mama on Earth Day!

| garden, Gardening, Green Living
April 22, 2011

Teddy in the Galapagos Islands Mother Earth, she’s the only one we’ve got! We can’t take her for granted. Let’s show her a little l-o-v-e from this day forward by committing to help her flourish in our own way. This Earth Day I’m lovin’ Mother Earth by: Going Native!!! As...
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Keeping Your Green Thumb on WOOD TV8

| Design, eightWest WOOD TV8, Green Living, How-To, Interior Plantscape, Videos, WholeHome
February 21, 2011

As winter lingers on, garden indoors! Join Rachel Ruiz and I as we discuss keeping your home green. Proper plant selection for your interior environment and proper container selection for your plant are the keys to success!*Please be patient as video downloads.(Practicing patience is good winter training for gardeners anyway!;)...
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mTip: Pumpkins, Use ‘Em or Lose ‘Em

| Free, Garden, garden, Gardening, Green Living, Halloween, Holidays
November 4, 2010

Instead of kicking ’em to the curb, breath new life into your Halloween jack o’lanterns by adding them to your compost pile. You’ll be amazed at how fast Mother Nature’s little workers break them down into a papery mush. There are so many things like this that we tend to...
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