Home and Garden Experiences

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elcome to the Home & Garden Experiences web site. This site is designed to provide you with my experiences around the home, yard, and garden and provide my solutions to problems or enhancements to ways of accomplishing tasks and goals.

I hope you enjoy this site, and please feel to provide comments, suggestions, and of course your own home and garden experiences.

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If you start growing plants from seeds, you can re-use used toilet paper rolls to start your seeds growing.  This article explains how to recycle toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls to use in starting your plants from seed.
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Here is a short tip to take advantage of: Kids can grow potatoes in a plastic garbage bag. Read the rest of this entry »

For years I have struggled with the old fashioned way of cleaning gutters and if you have ever cleaned your gutters you know what I am talking about. You first get your ladder out and get a 5 gallon pail to put the leaves and debris in. Place the ladder against the house at the start of the gutter and hike up the ladder to scoop out all the debris that you can reach by hand. Then you climb down the ladder, move it over, climb back up and repeat until the gutters are cleared. This process seems endless and annoyingly repetitive, but there is an easier way. Read the rest of this entry »

Painting the exterior of your home can be a daunting task, however the appropriate preparation can make it easier and more enjoyable project to make your house more appealing, sellable, or just a more comfortable place to live. Read the rest of this entry »

Every headline in the papers, every top story on the news, and every topic of conversation at the White House points to our failing economy. Yet, according to American Pet Products Association , in 2008, more than $43 billion … yes, forty-three billion dollars were spent on our pets. I have to assume that not all businesses are falling apart! Read the rest of this entry »

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ere’s a quick and easy recipe for Pico de Gallo that we were able to put together entirely from our garden harvest. Read the rest of this entry »

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e planted three cucumber plants this year. Last year we planted three as well, but lost two to frost very early on in the season. This year we lost one so we were net gain of an entire plant.

As young plants when they only had two leaves on the whole plant, their small leaves turn white and start to curl up underneath themselves Read the rest of this entry »

Author: farmersteve63

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ith the vegetable garden season beginning to wind down in the midwest. It is never to early to begin to think about starting your vegetable garden for next year. If you have never grown a vegetable garden before, you should really consider starting one. There are several benefits and reasons as to why you would want to start your own vegetable garden. Read the rest of this entry »

Author: Bare Bones Gardener

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n Today’s throwaway society, there is absolutely no need to go out and purchase mulch material for your garden, unless it is for the particular aesthetic appearance, “The Look”, sake of the mulch material.

Were you aware that there are a number of mulching materials that you can obtain from around your own community that are free, and some of which can even be even delivered to you for nothing as well? Read the rest of this entry »

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fter tripling the size of my garden from 8 foot square last year to 8′x24′, I extended my single 50′ soaker hose to three 50′ soaker hoses connected end-to-end to support the larger garden however, the hose became quite unwieldy. Having to straighten out the entire 150′ of soaker hose was becoming a nightmare with the whole hose moving when small sections needed to be rearranged knocking over plants in the process. I will detail the steps I took to remedy the situation by building a hose manifold from common parts found at the local hardware store to create a number of short runs of hose that are much easier to manage and control. Read the rest of this entry »