Ideas within topic home,garden: (click suns to rate or comment on ideas)
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| Sell special worms that make your compost work faster and better. Clean, helpful, and profitable. | |
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| Used pantyhose make an excellent disposable collector bag for grass clippings from your power mower. They can be held in place on the mower with a short bungee cord. They are very amusing to see standing up. | |
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| Plants can help save energy. Deciduous trees let winter sun through bare branches and block summer sun with leaves. Ivy can trap a layer of air near the building (reducing convective air movement that steals heat). | |
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| To declare his love to a girl, a boy can start growing a tree and present a flower/fruit/leaf from it when he proposes his love to that girl. This will show his patience/affection towards her. | |
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| A Christmas tree skirt with a slit in it. This would make it easier to wrap around your tree. Make slit and add velcro to close. | |
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| A way to store and process animal waste (dogs and cats) into a type of fertilizer to sprinkle onto your yard flower beds, etc. | |
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| A device easily attachable to your lawn sprinkler system to which you could add powdered fertilizer. Let your sprinkler system do the work of fertilizing, and forget about it. | |
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| Tea contains iron and other nutrients that are good for plants. So instead of throwing your used tea bags in the garbage, put them in your garden! | |
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| Plant native, desert plants around buildings in dry climates, rather than try to plant humid climate grass and flowering bushes. | |
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| Instead of throwing out biodegradable materials in the trash, put them in a separate container so that you can empty them onto a compost. | |
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| Mint is an easy herb to grow. But beware; it can spread by its roots to take over a garden, so better keep it in a pot. | |
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| Just like seedless grapes, why not grow seedless watermelons? | |
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| One of the easiest herbs to grow is rosemary. It is also very strong, so even a small plant will season a lot of food. | |
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| To speed up the decomposing speed of your compost, put all the materials in a mulcher first. The resulting finely ground matter composts better and faster than un-mulched material. | |
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| For picking up leaves, twigs, and excess grass, you can use a lawn vacuum. It will shred leaves and deposit them into a bag attached to the vacuum for easy disposal. | |