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Starting a Garden: Cultivating Garden Soil

Starting a Garden: Cultivating Garden Soil

A family member of mine recently moved into a new house and wants to start an ornamental garden. I agreed to help because I figured it would make a good garden project for this blog to document the creation of a garden. Also, this gives me an opportunity to see if I can create a... Read more »

By MrBrownThumb,
July 21, 2010 at 4:12 pm

Homemade Garden Plant Markers

Whenever I buy a new plant I always tell myself that I will keep the plant marker that came with the plant. Eventually the plant marker gets lost and replacing them can be expensive if you have a lot of plants. I’ve taken to making my own garden plant markers out of various things I... Read more »

By MrBrownThumb,
June 1, 2009 at 6:17 pm

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