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The Weirdest Foods You Can Grow In Your Garden
What really fires our children’s imagination is the extraordinary. Whether this week’s fixation is monsters, aliens, magical powers, superheroes or mythical lands, it’s always the strange and the super that inspires them. If you’re struggling to get them excited about their vegetables, then use this knowledge to your advantage: here are some right truly magical, and sometimes monstrous, fruits and veggies that you can easily grow in your back garden. The process of growing produce in itself can inspire a sense of wonder in children. It also helps to get them more involved in the food they eat: tomatoes grown from seeds are inherently more interesting than those in…
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DIY Structured Flower Garden
It’s spring. The air is fresh and warm. All is green. And you hear the call to clean up, freshen up and add some color to your outdoor living area. You bought a beautiful new garden set for entertaining… so out with the old. Hold on now! Before you toss out that perfectly good piece of furniture (yes it’s faded, tattered and worn), step back and let your imagination and creative juices flow. What can you do to repurpose the item for another use? For example, our mosaic stone patio tabletop showed its age with cracked and broken edges. My husband was eager to get rid of it because it…
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Garden :: 10 Unique Container Gardening Ideas
Yesterday my daughter and I visited our local nursery and I was inspired to work on my back patio this spring. We don’t have a large area so the following are great ideas for small spaces. It is probably a good thing since I don’t have a ton of extra time like most moms – but I do get a lot of pleasure working in the garden and love to see when it is all cleaned up and looking good! Now if I can just get my (almost) one year old 110+ puppy to not eat the new flowers we planted! Fabric Covered Planters = Divine! Hands down…
