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  • Making your own toilet paper planting strips
    outdoor seed starting | seed planting sheets | seed planting strips

    Making your own toilet paper planting strips

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”613″ height=”368″ /> My previous attempt at making planting strips worked ok, lapsed a bit on the watering, but had a few surviving carrots.  This time around I decided to go with the classic technique at making planting strips with simple toilet paper. 1. Start with single ply.  If you buy the fancy double-triple ply toilet paper you will want to pull them apart to start with a single…

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  • At least something is growing in my garden
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    At least something is growing in my garden

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”549″ height=”412″ /> After many weeks of overcast and low evening temperatures, hoping to see some real summer weather soon…not sure if the peppers will even make it out of the garage this summer.

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  • Garden walkthrough
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    Garden walkthrough

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”549″ height=”412″ /> This bed holds all of my cold season crops, I also chose varieties that do not really need to be watered too often given it is a pain to drag a hose out to this location so it normally gets neglected.  Here I have onions (bunching and bulbs), leeks, carrots (still small), cilantro (coriander at this point), garlic, romaine lettuce, and surrounded by strawberry plants in…

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  • Home gardening statistics infographic
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    Home gardening statistics infographic

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”550″ height=”664″ /> I came across this interesting infographic showing pretty cool information about the home gardener I thought I would share.  I couple of interesting items were the average garden size and the economics of U.S. food gardens. UPDATE: Some resources to see how profitable your garden can be: most profitable fruits and most profitable vegetables.

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  • Removing pests from your garden using animal traps
    guest post | pests

    Removing pests from your garden using animal traps

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”550″ height=”279″ /> Unfortunately, at one time or another, most homeowners will encounter the need to defend their turf from some four-legged nuisance. Animals wreak havoc in yards and gardens, feasting on vegetables, seedlings, flowers, bulbs and trees. Some animals even burrow and create tunnels, effectively destroying the roots of plants. One of the best ways to get rid of an unwanted animal is a live animal trap. In…

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  • Growing carrot patterns with DIY seed planting sheets
    carrot | outdoor seed starting | seed planting sheets

    Growing carrot patterns with DIY seed planting sheets

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”526″ height=”412″ /> My daughter likes to plant seeds but when working with smaller seeds it can be difficult to plant these seeds especially the farther the location is from edge of the garden bed.  I have been thinking about solving this problem with a seed strip which can be made using burlap, newspaper, toilet paper, or any sort of paper for that matter.  Next you simply stick the…

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  • Controlling raspberry bushes
    planter | raspberries

    Controlling raspberry bushes

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”555″ height=”409″ /> I have considered adding raspberries in my garden but never really got around to it.  This year the sort of were planted for me when my neighbors raspberry plant began sneaking under our fence.  This was not exactly the location I would have chosen to plant them if I picked up a plant from the local home improvement store…but figured best to go with it than…

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  • cayenne peppers growing indoors
    cayenne | indoor growbox | peppers

    cayenne peppers growing indoors

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”550″ height=”367″ /> Well this is the soonest I have gotten peppers growing, but the temperature controlled grow box did help out a lot.  I brought this pant indoors last year when it still had a half dozen green peppers on it when the temperatures started to decline.  The peppers turned red and a picked and dried them out for cayenne powder and sort of forgot about this plant. …

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  • How to sharpen hedge sheers (hedge trimmers)
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    How to sharpen hedge sheers (hedge trimmers)

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”550″ height=”367″ /> “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” —Abraham Lincoln The above has to be one of my favorite quotes, a great summary of working smart versus working hard.  I have used this quote in reference to doing work such as creating tools to make the overall job take more time…in this sense I will…

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    How to collect lettuce seeds

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    I wasn’t exactly good about eating my lettuce last year, after a few weeks of neglect the plants began to flower and eventually created some seeds.  At the end of the season I pulled out the plants to dry out a little more and eventually forgot about them for a few months. Because I forgot about the seeds when it came time to plant them I simply grabbed a…

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  • What’s wrong with this tomato plant?
    disease | pests | tomato

    What’s wrong with this tomato plant?

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”549″ height=”412″ /> I have my best guess on this one, but can’t seem to find any pictures online that match this tomato problem.  So to confirm what do you think the problem could be?

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  • Fiskars 6201 Momentum Push Reel Lawn Mower review
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    Fiskars 6201 Momentum Push Reel Lawn Mower review

    ByThe Cheap Vegetable Gardener

    width=”525″ height=”341″ /> Last weekend my old gas mower finally gave its last breathe of exhaust and so it was time to get a new mower.  Provided I have a relatively small yard and a very cramped garage I decided to give a manual push lawn mower or more well known as reel lawn mower.  After some research on the reel mowers on the market I finally ended up…

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