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Free Kindle Gardening Books

March 22, 2017 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Is all the warm weather giving you the gardening bug! We’ve been bite hard! Princess and I have been planning and planting! Here’s some free kindle books to help you with your gardening research and planning.

Calling all you green thumb wanna be’s! Check out all of these incredible gardening books free on kindle.

These free Kindle Gardening Books are great to grab while free regardless of your gardening knowledge. Just remember to check the price before clicking buy as prices change often on Amazon. These were all free when I went to publish this post!

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DIY Raised Garden Beds with Pallets

June 1, 2015 By Thaleia

We have seen all sorts of ideas all over the internet and on pinterest using pallets. Since I want to expand our garden and just learned that raised garden beds offer double the yield of a normal row garden I really wanted to put our pallet raised garden beds to use. A month of so ago some of our potatoes from the grocery began to grow. I decided to plant them in a large pot to see if they would continue to sprout and grow. They did.

I was really lazy and placed the entire potato with multiple eyes sprouting without dividing it up first. It worked out really well to pull the plants apart at the base of the stalks just above ground. This is when I discovered that they were indeed growing little potatoes from the tip of a pen size to small bouncy ball size!

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Frugal Ways to Stake Tomatoes

August 1, 2012 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Some may say “redneck”, but I claim Frugal! I was given 20 plants from my mom. (We kept 8, gave 8 to the neighbor, and 4 to a friend.) These were volunteer plants that grew up in a garden bed she did not want tomatoes in. I planted these in our front-side yard. They are watered daily sometimes twice a day, but have been neglected to be staked! UNTIL TODAY.

I saw some really nice orange to small grapefruit sized tomatoes that were very pale green. The sun has not been able to reach them due to the stalks, vines, and leaves blocking them. I also found another cantaloupe that was hiding under the tomatoes! So I decided today was the day to get them exposed to the sun so they can ripen before they rot.

Here’s what I did:

Found 2 free wooden stakes & 3 torches (from MIL’s garage), 3 large sticks, and large plastic coated twist ties left over from toys.

Used rubber mallet to pound the stakes into ground.

Used twist ties to attach various vines to stakes making sure that the tomatoes would be exposed to the sun and ripen. Our tomatoes are the low-acidic yellow and orange kind-yummy.

What have you done in your garden today? Do your children help? What are your favorite veggies that you grow? I would love to hear what you are growing.

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