the green thumb
The Squidoo DIY Guide To Gardening
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Freshly Sown and Spruced!
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I like lenses that make me feel like I'm listening to people who're talking about what they're really growing in their homes and gardens. I love DIY, backyard, organic, homemade, dirt-under-your-fingernails, compost-your-kitchen-scraps, veggie-cultivating, flower-smelling, container-using, bird and butterfly-attracting, fairy-friendly gardening!
Plant now for next Spring, Turn your garden in a local wildlife habitat, How to make a bonsai, How To Freeze Rhubarb, Love Flowers? Want to Grow You Own? This is How!
Flowers and Houseplants
beautiful blossoms and container gardening"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change." - Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.
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Beautiful Easy Flowers
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Flowers. Color. Beauty. This is my experimental lens devoted to helping you bring more color and beauty into your life with flowers. Flowers are easy to grow and beautiful to behold. To a more colorful world!
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Growing Aloe Vera
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I wasn't all that good with house plants and hastened a few along to an early demise until I moved to this one apartment building and my upstairs neighbor gave me a piece of their aloe vera. Their aloe plant was enormous, and looked like it was...
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Spring Season Crocus
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Hope Springs Eternal, and crocuses are a big part of the reason! In spite of repeated snows and frost, crocuses survive brightly, poking delicate heads over their icy blanket. Everyone seeks out the crocus as the first sign of sprin...
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Air-Cleaners: The Coolest Houseplants Ever
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Did you know that if you keep certain houseplants, those plants will clean pollutants, chemicals and carcinogens out of the air inside your home? How cool is that!?
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Indoor Flower Bulb Forcing techniques
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Thank you for visiting my Lens on Flower Bulbs. My name is Chris and I immigrated from The Netherlands to Canada. I live in an isolated remote part of Canada, with lots of Moose, Bears and trees... But...... no flowers the way I like. I used to spent...
How Does Your Garden Grow?
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Eatables and Edibles
fruits, vegetables and other food gardening
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Grow Salads, Herbs and Flowers for Your Health
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Growing your own vegetables and flowers can be great fun. It's not difficult and it's not expensive to start. In fact you can use recycled goods to get you going. You can even grow vegetables and flowers if you only have a small backyard or bal...
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Growing Fruit Trees In Containers
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Growing fruit trees indoors is very rewarding and easy to do. You don't need to be living in a warm climate (or have a green thumb) to grow your own lemons, limes or oranges. Dwarf fruit trees can be grown in containers indoors durin...
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Fresh Asparagus Recipes
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Find everything you need to know about fresh asparagus right here! Learn how to grow asparagus, how to cook asparagus and even some tasty asparagus recipes. Fresh asparagus is delicious on it's own but by adding a few simple ingredients you can turn...
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White Alpine Strawberries
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In the spring of 2008, I planted white alpine strawberries in my garden. This lens will tell you more about this special varietal and share my experiences with this delicious fruit! These berries have some distinct differences from regular strawberri...
Saving Your Harvest
recommendations and favoritesOnce you've put in all that work on a garden, growing lots of fruits and veggies, then you have the harvest! Here are some great books on how to keep all the wonderful food you produced. (Add and vote for your faves!)
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The Beginner's Guide to Preserving Food at Home: Easy Techniques for the Freshest Flavors in Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Relishes, Salsas, Sauces, and Frozen and Dried Fruits and Vegetables by Janet Chadwick
A wonderful thing is happening in home kitchens. P more...0 points
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Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation by The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante
Typical books about preserving garden produce near more...0 points
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Preserving Food by Ph.D., Karen K. Brees
You can preserve just about everything-from soup t more...0 points
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Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You Grow by Rodale Food Center
Preserving Summer's BountySurefire techniques and more...0 points
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Just Replanted!
recently updated lenses
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Water Fountains, Garden Fountains, Garden Decor Accessories, Bronze Garden Sculptures, Grow a Chocolate Garden
Backyard Critters
Bugs, butterflys, birds, bunnies and Bigfoot
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How You Can Get Rid of Japanese Beetles
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Japanese Beetles bug me! If you're like me, I like my rose bushes, grape vines, and fruit trees(plum and apple) in one piece not munched on by Japanese Beetles. I love to garden. It's a great way to relax without Japanese Beetles. But,...
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The Apiary: Bees & Beekeeping
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An "apiary" is a place where bees and hives are kept, especially when it is for the production of honey. I don't keep bees presently, but it is an ambition of mine. I started this lens so I would have a place for me to put all the info...
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Ladybugs Are Good For Your Garden
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Learn everything you need to know about ladybugs and why they are good for your garden! Buy live ladybugs and find cute ladybug gifts including Ladybug Land, a natural ladybug habitat for your children! Attracting ladybugs to your garden can provide y...
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Butterflies and Gardening to Attract Them
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What is more beautiful than a garden full of colorful flowers with gorgeous butterflies flitting around? It's really not that hard to create a haven like this right in your own yard. All you need to create this sanctuary for you and the butterflies a...
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Rabbits In Your Garden
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Everyone's read Beatrix Potter, either as a child or to their own children. You'll be familiar with Peter Rabbit - the naughty, mischeivous little fellow who ate all the farmer's carrots and was almost too tubby to fit underneath the fence and escape...
Digging In The Dirt
comments, feedback, questionsDo you have a gardening question? Got a great garden tip to share? Join Squidoo and join our discussion!
dustytoes wrote...
Thanks for accepting my "Growing Peonies" flower gardening lens into this awesome group. I see many lenses I want to visit.
Posted April 07, 2009
TacTac wrote...
Hey thanks for welcoming me to the family :) Look forward to learning from you all and maybe even sharing a bit here and there. Happy gardening everyone!
Posted October 09, 2008
Charanne wrote...
Thank you very much for adding our lens Christmas Cactus to your group.
Posted October 01, 2008
pmolinero wrote...
Hi,
thanks for accepting my lens about Hybrid Tea Roses in this nice gardening group.
Posted September 26, 2008
Care-of-Orchids wrote...
Hi,
Just a quick note to thank you for adding my lens to this group :)
Posted September 16, 2008
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