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  1. HEChicken

    The Great Cardboard Experiment

    On a previous thread, I discussed my use of VERY thick cardboard last year to try to kill the weeds in my new garden patch. This thread is an update…. On Sunday DH and I pulled up the cardboard, so that we can get the tiller in. Underneath we found that in places it seemed to have worked but...
  2. HEChicken

    Ashes for tomatoes?

    We have a small fireplace that we only use occasionally. I.e., it creates ambience more than heat. Yesterday I cleaned it out and have a bucket of ashes. I figured there has to be a use for them somewhere around here so I googled it and found a list of "10 ways to use ashes…." Most of them...
  3. HEChicken

    Garden walkways

    My garden space is 16x40. On my plan for this year, I have divided it into strips of garden bed about 4 ½ feet wide, with a 2' walkway in between each bed, the idea of course being that I can weed and harvest from each bed without walking on it. I wanted to put some kind of compostable...
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    Oldie but newbie

    I went to sign up this morning but was told that my email was already in the system so apparently I signed up years ago (I'll find out after I post this and will for the first time see my "join date"). I've gardened on and off all my life, sometimes successfully….other times not so much. It is...
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