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Category: Garden Ramblings
Here is where I randomly write about some gardening topic I find interesting from useful tool I have found to garden tips I have figured out or picked up or other experiences that I want to share with you.
Constructing My Raised Beds
Using Frame-it-All recycled timbers to create raised beds for a vegetable garden on an old basketball court.
Hori Hori Knife
The Hori Hori Knife is one of the most popular gardening tools to be imported from Japan. Hori is a form of the verb horu, which means “to dig”. Although most people describe the Hori Hori Knife as a tool used in Japan by bonsai collectors I always wondered why it looked so much like…
Bats in my belfry
I am heading up the the Northwest Flower and Garden Show Saturday February 23rd to the DIY (Do-it-yourself) Stage to demonstrate making a simple batbox. I always enjoy seeing if I can build something in less than an 3/4 of an hour in front of hundreds of people. I especially like to challenge all my battery…
Grow Flowers Be Happy
My alma matter Rutgers has done some interesting research on how domesticated flowers have a positive emotional effect on us. A 2005 article published in in Evolutionary Psychology Confirming what most of us gardeners know intuitively. The information is being used to promote cut flower and pot flower giving by the Society of American Florists…