60 second Home Garden Tips

The garden is where you should be spending your time not in front of the computer. So, here's some gardening tips that should get you back outdoors in 60 seconds or less.

Ask a question, find the answer and get back in front of your favourite perennial in less than a minute.

Could you ask for anything more? Sure, and I hope you do...

Most Useful Gardening Tips

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Rubber Mulch

Mulch for your Gardens, trees and bushes2 points

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Rubberecycle Rubber Mulch

Mulch from rubberecycle mulch, a great source of r more...2 points

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Container Gardening Tips | Easy Container Gardens

Learn how to grow fabulous vegetables, fruits, her more...1 point

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Home & Garden: House Calls - Local designers redesign readers rooms (washingtonpost.com)

The Washington Post Home section highlights a week more...1 point

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15 Uses for Vinegar in the Garden

Vinegar is one of the most common ingredients you more...0 points

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10 ideas to save water in the garden

Water is by far one of our most precious resources more...0 points

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Collecting garden seeds

Gardening shouldn't be a costly exercise so saving more...0 points

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How to build compost bins

Compost. Glorious compost. The essence of gardenin more...0 points

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Tips on selecting Garden Shears

Which garden shears and hand pruners are best and more...0 points

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The garden hose review

Your garden hose is an important tool in your gard more...0 points

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A review of garden compost tumblers

Don't want to make your own compost bins? Here's a more...0 points

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Successful Plant Propagation for Beginners

If you can propagate plants well you can save your more...0 points

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The Quirkiest and Most Extraordinary Planter Competition

This competition is running for the whole month of June on my blog.

It seems that finding the Quirkiest Planter is a much harder task than I first anticipated. And, as Lisa suggested, most gardeners - especially in the northern hemisphere - are too busy in their gardens to enjoy participating in a competition.

So, after much deliberation, and agreement by our sponsor and judge, it has been decided to not only extend the time frame for the whole month of June but also widen the scope of what we're looking for. Obviously, the 'Quirkiest Planter' is still desirable but we're also happy to include the 'Most Extraordinary' container plants as well.

Maybe you're trying out an upside-down tomato planter, or your strawberry tower is full to overflowing. You might have created a container of bulbs that are blooming their heads off or your annual posse is magnificent to say the least.

You can include photos that have already been published provided you create a new post for them (for bloggers). The rest of the guidelines remain and the competition will end on Saturday 30 June, 2007.