Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet

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If you have limited garden space or want to try some nifty gardening magic, this could be a great option for you. The potatoes are planted inside the box, the first row of boards is installed and the dirt or mulch can now be added to cover the seed potatoes. As the plant grows, more boards and dirt will be added.


You plant in one bottom layer, boarding up the sides of each layer and adding dirt as you go higher (you wait until the plants have grown a bit before adding a new layer). While new potatoes are growing in the top layers, remove the boards from the first layer at the bottom to carefully dig out any that are ready for harvesting. Fill the dirt back in and board up the box again. You move up the layers and harvest as they are ready.

I imagine the new potatoes in the first couple bottom layers would be somewhat awkward to get at but as you move higher–not so bad. Try it at your garden. (Source)

Grow Your Own Vegetables From Scraps

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Start mini vegetable garden in your own kitchen. It’s fast, eat the food you grow yourself in just a few weeks. It’s virtually free, just some water and a few toothpicks. It’s so easy that even if you have no green thumb at all you can do this way easier than growing seeds.

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How to get started: For greens like lettuce and celery, take the bottom three inches or so, the stuff you would have probably thrown away, stick a bamboo stick or toothpicks through, so it can sit in a jar of water, and add fresh water daily.

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You only have to wait 24 hours before you see your lettuce magically re-growing. Two weeks later you can chop enough greens from one plant for a sandwich. Look at this green gorgeousness. you can regrow from scraps include onions, potatoes, lemongrass, garlic, even pineapple. Once you’ve harvested your food, you can see if your base will regrow again.

You are doing Wrong Way - Peel Avocado

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You might have to sit down for this one. That convenient avocado bowl you’ve been eating out of is not giving you as much nutrients as you think. Although the spooning-out method is quite handy on-the-run, the best way to preserve those valuable antioxidants is to peel the skin off. This is especially important when adding it to a dish such as guacamole.

Fix Scratches In Wood Furniture

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I've tried furniture polish and orange oil, and nothing really makes it look much better. It was sitting forlornly in our garage waiting for me to decide if it was worth keeping, so I figured I'd give this magical trick a try as a last ditch effort.
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Mix 3/4 cup of oil and 1/4 cup vinegar and had some to spare. Mix it, then take a kitchen rag and just dipped it in and rubbed it on. Keep going until the whole table and used almost all of the mixture. The scratches were fixed! Let's just do a little side by side comparison, shall we? I think this deserves it's own montage. Try and imagine Rocky music in your head for me as we watch the transformation.
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That is a crazy difference! Not only does it look better but my table is now silky smooth and clean. Um, yeah, I'd say it worked! The best part is that now my precious table is a totally usable piece of furniture again, and has been restored to it's rightful place in our entry way hall. I think I can pretty obviously say that I recommend it as a successful scratch fix.

How To Grow An Avocado Tree

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Highly flavored and nutritious, avocados signal a healthy diet, whether we’re talking about guacamole or salad. If you like not having to make regular trips to the grocery for your daily supply of fresh avocados, try growing an avocado tree at home. It’s surprisingly easy. In 10 easy steps, you will see how you too can get a full-grown avocado tree from a little seed, making the whole process very educational and easy to remember.

STEP 1: Without cutting the pit from the avocado, remove and wash clean of all the avocado fruit. You might find it helpful to soak the pit for a few minutes in some water. But make sure you don’t remove the brown skin from the pit!

STEP 2: All avocado pits, despite not being perfect round shapes, have a top and bottom side. From the ‘bottom’, the future roots will grow, as for the ‘top’ the sprout will do the same. You can find which is which by looking after the slightly pointier end. When you noticed that, you found the top. In opposition, the bottom will have a flat end. It’s important to place the bottom in water, so the roots will begin to gently grow.

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STEP 3: Next, stick 4 toothpicks into the top side of the avocado seed. Make sure the injections are made pointing down at a slight downward angle and are spaced evenly around the circumference. Wedge the toothpicks strongly because they will allow you to place your avocado base in the water but still have the fruit hanging over a glass.

STEP 4: Place the glass with the half-submerged avocado in a place with sunlight. Use a clear glass for this operation, so you can observe when the roots start to grow. It’s useful for warnings of mold, bacteria and fungus growth, so you can change the water when it’s needed. You can do the latter regularly every day, as many professionals recommend, but it’s better to change the water every 5-7 days.

STEP 5: Sprouting can take as long as 8 weeks, although many websites suggest only 2-4 weeks. The best advice is to be patient. And pay attention so the seed goes to the necessary stages of sprouting: the outer brown seed skin will slough off as the top of the avocado pit will dry out and form a crack; the crack will extend and to the bottom side of this, a tiny taproot will begin to emerge; this will grow longer and longer until a small sprout will peek through the top of the avocado pit. Don’t forget to maintain the taproot submerged, because not doing so will be synonymous to the death of your plant.

STEP 6: There are a few tricks when it comes to planting the newly born sprouts. When the stem reaches 6-7 inches in length, cut about 3 inches off it, as this will make the new part grow faster. Cut and put it in a rich humus soil pot, when it has reached 6-7 inches again. Use best with an 8-10inch diameter pot. Before placing in a sunny area, make sure that you leave the top half of the seed exposed.

STEP 7: In this stage of planting your own avocado, you need to know two things about its relationship with water: the soil should always be moist. If you start to see yellow leaves, it’s a sign you exaggerated and over-watered it. No need to panic though. Let the plant some time to absorb the water and continue after it has dried.

STEP 8: Encourage the plant to grow larger, by pinching out the top two sets of leaves. Do this when the stem has reached about 12 inches in height. Repeat the method when another 6 inches have grown additionally on the plant.

STEP 9: If you happen to come across some nasty bugs, like aphids, you will need to wash them off the avocado. You can do this by showering or gently hosing down your plant. When there are no more pests on it, spray the avocado tree with a solution of water mixed with a few drops of dishwashing liquid and one teaspoon of neem oil. Check in 4-5 days to see if it’s clean. If not, repeat the process until it is.

STEP 10: In the autumn or winter, if it gets cooler than 45 degrees F, you must bring the baby avocado tree indoor, so it won’t freeze to death. And there you have it. All you need to know about how to plant your own avocado tree from a seed. After a couple or so years, the tree will begin to give fruit. On some occasions, some trees take about 15 years to bear fruit, and some never do at all. Even if your commercial avocado – seed you used to plant the tree – is one of the tasteful fruit on Earth, don’t expect that yours should be the same. Naturally grown avocado are different. You can grow several avocado trees together to aid with pollination and ensure your fruits are good as well.

Upcycle An Old Tire Into a Jaw-Dropping Pond

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Creativity knows no boundaries. Nothing should stop us from enhancing our everyday life with something new, fresh, meant to reinvent us and refresh our desire to improve constantly. Here at Homesthetics we have featured dozens of projects worth considering but this Pond project that uses an old car or tractor tire is absolutely extraordinary. Mainly because it is a project that changes the landscape dramatically with little to no effort, nothing that you see in this short guide is hard, the entire job should not take more than 20 hours split into two days. Moreover this project will enhance the environment, it will bring more birds into your backyard, you can welcome their visit with even more amenities like small or large tree homes. Your pond can be as elaborate as you want it to be. You can use only one tractor tire, two, three combined with other old car tires or you can displace the tires with another recipient able to satisfy your needs in matter of size. An old jacuzzi tub or bathtub carefully camouflaged for example can replace the tires easily. You can use more of these to create a bigger swimming pond, possibilities are endless.

 
 
 



Small Urban Garden Design Idea

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For those of you who live in smaller spaces, but still want to indulge your green thumb, below are some great ideas for urban gardening. Give them a try! 
There is a garden design to fit any space challenges, be it an alleyway lined with colorful pots of shade-loving hostas, pockets of woodland plants in an old brick wall, or even an open-air atrium transformed into a summer dining room. Take pictures of the site and talk with your local nursery or garden center to get ideas about how to transform it into a place of tranquility and functionality. 

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Spoon Garden Hooks

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You can create garden hooks for hanging indoor or outdoor plants by using your old spoons as well. Just bend them and flatten the spoon like you would do for the coat racks only instead of screwing them to a board, simply put them wherever you want to hang a planter. Use smaller spoons for the small plants and larger spoons or ladles for larger plants.


Concrete Block Garden

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The things around you just need a visionary and sharp focus to reuse them in home garnishing projects. The concrete blocks have been filled up with potting soil and a lovely self made garden is ready to make your home look beautiful and shiny with desired nature of plants in them.


Garden Planter from Pallets

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You know you just love planting those summer gardens. Even if you don’t have a relatively large space for your garden, you can still plant your favorites this summer by making your own garden planter. This planter made from an old shipping pallet is great and it is very easy to make; not to mention cheap. Doing your own gardening is great. It gives you the opportunity to save money and to ensure that you are not feeding your family products that have chemicals in them. You can grow your own vegetables and ensure that they are completely free from pesticides and other harmful chemicals. You can use the pallet planter for vegetables, flowers, herbs or anything that you want to grow and it’s so easy to make that you can do several of them so that you have one available for every type of plant that you want to grow.
 

Button Bracelet

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It's funny how inspiration comes when you least expect it. Me something in the last vrime visited more frequently than usual. How else can you justify the fact that I finally after one year made 4 bracelets ?! Ha! Here they are in their rustling colorful release!


Candle Out of Citrus Fruits

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First remove the meat of the fruit, making sure to leave the middle stem in tact. If you have time, let the fruit dry for 1-2 hours. Then fill the fruit with olive oil to just below the center stem. Now light your citrus wick and you have a fully functioning candle!


Bottle Plant Moisture Retaining

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Fix the plastic bottles just close to the root hairs of your lovely fruit plants and make some random holes. Now use the bottle mouth to add water and it will reach directly to the root hairs to maintain necessary moisture for synthesis of plant growth compounds. The idea is terrific and splendid as one out of thousand.


Half Cut Bottle Planter

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Change the behavior of your old disk and bottles to make a planter set up in beautiful glittered appearance. Cut he bottles in halves and fix the upper part on the disk with inverted position and leave the lower part as it is, and here are your tow beautiful planter for table and table garnishing plans.


Bottle Jewelry Stand Idea

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Cut the three bottom flowers of the plastic bottles and fix a metallic rod in them and then see the magic which will turn into a beautiful jewelry organizer. The idea is different from other bottle recycled plans and is parallel to modern trait.


Phone Charger Holder

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Old shampoo bottle can do a lot supporting and helpful but it depends upon whether you are going to throw it in your home garbage or making it a target to apply some ingenious techniques and ideas. If you have the 2nd opinion then choose this idea to hold up you phone charger protectively.


Here is another odd and ends idea to support your mobile while it is on charging. Creativity and modern recycling provides the worth to unworthy home bits and pieces. It will just take a few mints to have a supporting setup for you phone through reclaiming of plastic can.


Plastic Bottles Garden

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Style up your outdoor with plastic bottle garden plan. The cultivation of any vegetable or herb can be done in this potting an planting plan. You can change the number to any figure and depending on the area of your home porch or garden.


Incredible Plastic Bottle Toys

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There are various aspects and perspectives to use the empty milk cans and plastic cans make something honorable and also a material and toy to play with for our children. You copy the following idea to make ravishing and chic doll houses for your girl baby kid.



Creative Bottle Recycling Plan

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Mess a little bit with the old cola cans and bottles and take them home as a beautiful gifts of book holder, candle holder for dining, bird food feeder, and more relating to plants and gardening.


Glass Bottles Home Decorating Idea

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Here is a cluster of ideas which have been intelligently and cautiously supervised to do a favor in home table adornments by taking use of old and worthless glass bottles. They can be pass though through wooden piece to serve as both the tables legs and decorative source for beauteous and engrossing charm.