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How to Grow from Seeds – Making a DIY Heat Mat For Seedlings
When you are learning to grow from seeds, often you might see reference to a heat mat for seedlings. Heat mats can really help speed up germination for many seeds, especially tomatoes and peppers. You can buy them, but here I will show you how to MAKE one. Here’s what I used: 2 old humidity domes for seed flats (the flats had been broken) 1 string of indoor/outdoor Christmas lights (the orange lights were not working) All-purpose sand That’s it! … Read entire article »
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How to Grow from Seeds – Building a Grow Rack
At some point in your gardening career you either have or will come to a point where you want to learn how to grow from seeds. Building a grow rack is a common first step because having a dedicated setup to grow your new plant starts will significantly help in the quality of your starts. This is not a necessary step, but will go far to avoid leggy, weak seedlings. The Shelf Before I show you the … Read entire article »
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How To Prune Grapes
I recently moved into a home that has a large old overgrown grape arbor and have had to learn how to prune grapes. Our landlord told me he’d just been pulling the dead vines off, but if you want any sort of fruit production, you need to really trim those canes back! Cutting back grape vines isn’t difficult at all, and the nice thing is you can’t really cut TOO far back. You could … Read entire article »
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