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Hints for Gardeners

	Wear overalls, pants, or vests that have pockets and carry a few 3x5" index cards with an ink pen clipped to them so that you can jot down notes of 'to do's' as you're working or walking around you gardens and yard. This way you won't forget what you want to do next time you're out in the garden and waste time and trips to the shed.
	Start arm strengthening exercises about a month before you will be out in your gardens for a new season. This will save you experiencing aches & pains & you'll be able to handle the work load better.

INCREASE YOUR HARVEST WITH COMPANION PLANTING........

I've just added a page with 2 charts that will make it easy to see what plants grow well together and even some to stay away from.

Just click the veggies here to go to that page:

HOW TO….
…………Repel Deer & Rabbits from your vegetable garden (Maybe!)…

Try these:

- Pour a path of Milorganite about 3 inches wide and 1 inch deep around the perimeter of the complete garden and a thin layer of it around each plant. The scent is not pleasing to them and they may not venture further into the garden. Repeat the process about every 4 weeks. Milorganite is a non-burning fertilizer so it can be used in any garden. For more information go to: http://www.milorganite.com/homeowners/products.cfm

- Plant the citronella scented geranium plants about 3 feet apart around your garden. These plants propagate very easily from cuttings placed right in some dirt. Just keep them moist until they start growing new leaves. These are annuals. The scent may hide the smell of your veggies growing from these intruders.

- Plant garlic cloves about 1 foot apart around your garden. As the 'leaves' grow tall, break off some of them to increase the aroma of the garlic in the area. The garlic smell has been known to deter unwanted visitors.

- I also put out coyote urine that you can buy in bottles. There is also a granule version to sprinkle around the area. Coyotes are a predator of deer & rabbits and their smell in the area will help keep them away.

Using one or more of these HINTS may be worth a try if you are having problems.

HINT: For a list of ornamental plants that Deer 'usually' do not eat, you can purchase that here.

Just scroll down - you will see it lower on this page.

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Potpourri Gardens -

belongs to Master Gardener - Sandy Kailing

She specializes in Lilies, Hostas, and Coleus

14100 220th Ave., Big Rapids, Michigan
231-796-8457

However, she sells a lot of other perennials and
annuals from her greenhouse, and the best scissors a gardener could ever use.

Or just come and take a walk through her garden..........
site seers are welcome!!

Click here for more gardening hints from
Sandy Kailing

This is photo of one of my
Peaches & Dreams Hollyhocks
came out in 2 colors.
I had 4 blooms do this last year.

Holly's list of 151 Deer Resistant Plants
for the Midwest States
Great Gardening Reference!

I have been researching deer resistant plants & testing them in my gardens for over 18 years now. My list will give you a guide to start planning. I also include several successes I have had with repellents. Photos, and the plants are listed by categories alphabetically.
Item #	Description	Price
DRPG1	Deer Resistant Plant Guide - Hardcopy version	$2.99
DRPG2	Deer Resistant Plant Guide - Email version	$1.59

Garden Conveniences use mailbox to hold tools

This is a photo of my back lot 'veggie' and sunflower garden all ready
for winter.

This back lot garden is across the road behind our house and many times I
take a stroll out there & wouldn't you know it - there is something I want to
trim or dig or whatever. So I mounted this mailbox my Mom got me at a
garage sale to hold an extra pair of hand trimmers, small hand shovel, duct
tape (to patch the black porous soaker hoses I have laid out there. I have
to 'string' several hoses from the house to get water to this back lot) and
extra seeds, etc.

It comes in handy when I stop to take a peak on my way in from work or whatever & I don't have to remember to
carry everything with me.

Garden Resources

Garden Articles Exchange -- http://www.gardenarticlesexchange.com/

At Garden Articles Exchange you will find a free gardening articles directory. A resource of garden information from over 115 authors. The articles are for your information and can also be used for your web site, ezine, newsletter, etc. as long as you follow their guidelines. If you have an article to submit, you can do that too.
Please take the time now to browse through all of their articles.

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These are Langermannia gigantea
or the common giant puffball

Mystery plant? Answered... October 2008

These have grown out in the woods by my house the
past 2 years. They get about 12 inches wide and high.

As they get older they turn brown and by spring they
are all powdery inside.

Holly:
The puffballs you have are Langermannia gigantea or the common giant puffball..... Bob

For more information check out - http://www.americanmushrooms.com/edibles3.htm

This is a photo of our 20'
Maple tree stump that I
have fun decorating.

To get a better look at
the photo just
Click on photo to enlarge it.

To RECORD in your
Garden Journal

Click here for the AVERAGE Monthly Precipitation amounts for Mecosta & Osceola
Counties, Michigan

January 2006 to Current

Paris Weather Forecast, MI (49338)

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