| Whether you are an avid vegetable
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| | attract insects that eat aphids and other
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| gardener, a beginning herb gardener or
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| | pests.6. My husband bought some used
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| just like to have a pretty yard, these
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| | carpet at a garage sale, cut it into
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| frugal tips may help you save a little
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| | wide strips and laid it down between the
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| money!1. Stale coffee and coffee grounds
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| | rows in our garden. Now we can pick peas
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| make great organic fertilizer. They
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| | with getting our shoes muddy.7. Use
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| provide many trace minerals and low,
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| | grass clippings as mulch around your
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| gentle levels of nitrogen, potassium and
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| | vegetable plants to keep moisture in and
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| phosphorous.2. Remember that a good
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| | weeds out. Just don't use the clippings
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| soaking of water less often is better
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| | right after you have fertilized your
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| than a light sprinkling every day -- for
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| | grass or treated for weed control.8. If
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| veggies and for your lawn.3. If your
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| | you have access to them, pine needles
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| neighbor has a plant you particularly
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| | make excellent mulch.9. A natural,
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| like, ask for a cutting, instead of going
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| | frugal garden pest spray: mix 1
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| to the nursery and buying one. Maybe you
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| | tablespoon of liquid dishwashing soap and
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| could trade a cutting from one of your
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| | 1 cup of cooking oil. Use 3 tablespoons
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| own plants.4. To easily water a tomato
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| | of this mixture to 1 quart of water and
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| plant, bury a bottomless coffee can next
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| | spray on plants.10. In the herb garden,
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| to the plant and pour the water into the
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| | to keep plants like mint from taking over
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| can. This allows the water to go
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| | too big an area, put it in a clay pot and
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| straight to the roots.5. Plant marigolds
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| | simply plant the whole pot!"He who plants
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| in your vegetable garden. They will
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| | a garden, plants happiness.
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