Image via Wikipedia One of a gardener’s pet hates is the common slug and of course the second is the snail. It is infuriating to find that your plants have been damaged by these pests. There are many products designed to eradicate these pests ranging from the notorious slug pellets that you scatter beside yor [...]
Image via Wikipedia I found this article by Margaret Lauterbach with the intriguing title “When life gives you weeds, make a salad” and it reminded me of a book I bought many years ago called “How to enjoy your weeds”. For most gardeners weeds are a nuisance that require constant attention if we are to [...]
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No yard space to grow your veggies? No problem, just build your own Vertical Hydroponic Window Farm. Now anyone can grow crops. All you need is a window and the hydroponic kit. If you follow the link in the article to the WindowFarms Project website you will see that the latest version can grow 16 [...]
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