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Thanksgiving 2000 Thankful
For Planning Ahead... Thanksgiving is upon us and Christmas is right around the corner. Don't forget to take some time to enjoy the holiday season. Easier said then done you might say. Planning is the word. I have already finished most of my Christmas shopping so I feel I am headed in the right direction. Thanksgiving will be spent with friends so I won't have to fix a large meal or prepare the house for guests. More time saved by not having to shop, clean or cook. See how easy this is? Don't let me fool you. I am always running around last minute trying to finish the unfinished things. I would like to say that I am a highly organized person but during the holiday season that is not always the case. However I will write about it in order to remind myself that maybe this is my year to plan ahead and be organized. It never hurts to encourage yourself and others to help those people in need and to thank the ones you love. Christmas arrives at The Sweet Onion on Friday. Hurry in now for the best selection of fresh trees and greenery! Visit their web page for more information and a special $10 coupon. If you're in town over the long weekend it looks like the weather may warm up a bit. Hopefully enough to encourage a final flurry of gardening work to end the outdoor growing season.
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Coiled Up And No Place To Go... Here's
What's Up, Doc... The best way to prevent rabbit damage to young trees is to place a cylinder of hardware cloth (1/4 inch mesh wire fencing) around the tree trunk. The hardware cloth cylinder should stand about 1 to 2 inches from the tree trunk and 20 inches above the ground. The bottom 2 to 3 inches should be buried beneath the soil. Small shrubs, roses and raspberries can be protected with chicken wire fencing. Time To
Pine For Pines? How can you tell if the tree will survive? First, check to see if the branch with the browning needles is alive. Scrape off a small area of the "bark" of the branch with a sharp knife. There should be green tissue immediately under the bark. This green cambium layer is quite thin with the underlying woody tissue being white. If there is no green at all, the branch is dead and should be removed. Major branch removal may destroy the aesthetics of the tree resulting in tree removal as the only viable option. Winter
Diet For Houseplants... Bundle
Up For Winter... What's
Hot On the Hotline... Protect
Those Pots... Finally... ~ Edward Winslow, At the "First Thanksgiving", 1621 |
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