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Making a Solar Food Dehydrator

Making a Solar Food Dehydrator

I love all forms of food preservation. I also love reducing my environmental footprint whenever possible. I’ve often thought about the energy involved in canning, freezing and using my electric food dehydrator to save my summer garden harvest for wintertime [...]

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Datura stramonium

Datura stramonium

Datura stramonium, known by the common names Jimson weed, devil’s trumpet, devil’s weed, thorn apple, tolguacha, Jamestown weed, stinkweed, locoweed, datura, pricklyburr, devil’s cucumber, Hell’s Bells,[2] moonflower[1] and, in South Africa, malpitte and mad seeds, is a common weed in [...]

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Growing Tomatoes From Stem Tip Cuttings

Growing Tomatoes From Stem Tip Cuttings

So you’ve picked your last tomato from your vines, they’re starting to look sad and you’ve realized that you should have planted some tomato seed awhile back to replace your plants. Well there’s a quicker way to multiply the number [...]

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Start Your Own Container Garden

Start Your Own Container Garden

Start Your Own Container Garden – An Economical Option
It is not difficult to start your own container garden, in fact for many people, it is an enjoyable hobby and can be an economical option to save money on fresh vegetables [...]

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Winter Gardening-Preparing Now For Spring: How To Make A Culinary Herb Garden:

Winter Gardening-Preparing Now For Spring: How To Make A Culinary Herb Garden:

The Culinary Herb Garden:
The scope of this project is to create a beneficial space for growing culinary herbs in a central location within the community garden. Many of the community gardeners have taken to growing herbs in the small plots. [...]

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