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Lifehack your way to a green thumb; shortcuts, money savers and clever growing tricks to achieve a perfect garden.
The Challenges of Weed Management
Poisoning The use of herbicides has proven a success for many years because they can kill weeds effectively. However, herbicides can also damage insects, harm people’s health and kill native plants. In short, they can lead to poisoning.
By Gracie Evans5 years ago in Lifehack
DIY Landscaping Ideas on a Budget
However, it requires much planning, thought, research, and execution—not to mention the time, money, and effort. But who says landscaping will break the bank? While beautiful landscaping isn’t always cheap, its upfront cost can be affordable. In the following, a local landscaping company shares DIY landscaping idea on a budget.
By Gracie Evans5 years ago in Lifehack
Everyone Should Compost
Over the past few years, composting in Oregon has become more and more normal and yet, so many people still do not compost, even me sometimes. The benefits of composting provide so much to our world, including more fertilization for our organically grown food and better use of our food waste. By not composting, our environment is affected by not giving our soil, which is used to grow our organic foods, the nutrients it needs to prosper these seeds. For us, individually, composting helps to bring us those organic foods as well as helping us to not waste food, but reuse it in a good way. One of the major problems I’ve heard about when people have said they do not compost is because “it is an inconvenience.” Composting does take a few extra seconds to walk over to the compost bin and dump the uneaten food into it, but it doesn’t take that long. Now a few seconds adding up can be a while but I believe it is worth it for the benefits that composting brings to the environment and to ourselves, and our community is worth the extra few seconds. But for those people who believe they cannot waste those few seconds a few times a day, we’ll take it slow.
By Avery Eldon6 years ago in Lifehack
Top 5 Tips to Prepare Your Garden for Winter
Many things can be done to get gardens ready for winter, especially as the following. 1. Raking-up leaves from lawns is a good start. This will make footpaths less slippery, it will air the lawn, and it will make everything look neater. If enough space is available it is better to separate raked leaves from standard compost, in order to produce leaf mould, which is a golden material to add to the soil for the next growing season.
By Jeff Nevil6 years ago in Lifehack
Click and Grow Testimonial. Top Story - August 2018.
This is not a paid sponsorship or review, just a happy young gardener sharing her experience using this product. Are you a gardener with a green thumb? Do you breathe life into your plants without a second thought and always know what to do in order to care for them? Can you grow ANYTHING from a seed? That was my paternal grandfather. My papa could grow anything, and he had the garden to show for it, including a lemon tree and a half-dozen vegetable spread growing at any given time. Being an Italian man, and the child of immigrants, his favorite thing to grow was tomatoes.
By Catie Consolo6 years ago in Lifehack
4 Fun DIY's to Create a Home for Wildlife in Your Garden!
1. DIY Bee Bath This bee bath looks so pretty in the garden and you're also helping out the bees and the environment, it’s a win for everyone. Attracting bees to your garden is important as they are one of the biggest factors to keeping your garden blooming and full of fresh fruit and veg.
By Jessica Jones6 years ago in Lifehack
5 DIYs for Your Garden to Try This Summer!
1.Teacup Bird Feeder This DIY reminds me so much of Alice in Wonderland and it makes me so happy. I love having nature in my garden so I’m always looking for cute ways to create a home for wildlife in my garden and this simple DIY was just what I was looking for.
By Jessica Jones6 years ago in Lifehack
The Natural Novice: First Forays Into a Gardener's World
I should begin with a disclaimer. I’m not a gardener. Nor do I pretend to be. But I’ve got the bug and I’m not talking about the type of bug that decimates your dahlias. I’m talking about the relentless itching desire to get out into the garden to plant things, nurture saplings, or launch a new offensive against the "Stinky Bob" infesting the borders. I’m talking about that frustrated mixed feeling you get when it rains, because your plants are getting watered but you just can’t get outside to mow the grass. I’m no expert. But I’m learning, often by making some pretty stupid mistakes but more often by talking to others who already have a wealth of knowledge and a lifetime of past experience. That's what I’m calling all the mistakes I’ve made by the way: experience.
By Pip Horrace6 years ago in Lifehack
Create a Beautiful Flower Garden for Pennies
With the arrival of spring, I am excited to get busy with the planting extravaganza. If you are anything like me, you are as well. If done correctly, you can achieve a beautiful flower garden for a fraction of the cost. This can be done a couple different ways and I am going to share my secret to success.
By Lillian Golze6 years ago in Lifehack
Plants? In Chicago?
Ah, yes, Chicago. A concrete jungle of sorts, and definitely not the first place you think of when it comes to plants, but one hiding some gems when it comes to greening up your own space. As an avid plant lover, I have made it my mission to explore what the city has to offer in terms of plants for the home. While I gravitate more towards succulents and cacti, I have unearthed some locations that fit the bill on many fronts. Here are my favorite spots.
By Savannah Feher6 years ago in Lifehack
DIY Fire Pit Ideas to Make Your Backyard Look Hot
If there's one backyard addition that can make a winter session outside sound okay, and make summer gatherings way better, it's a fire pit. There's something primally satisfying about sitting around a roaring fire with friends, and truth be told, fire pits also look awesome.
By Cato Conroy6 years ago in Lifehack