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Apartment Parking Lot Gardening in East Hollywood

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Gardening
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...h with pure tung oil from Jill’s paint in Atwater. Each planter gives me 5, 12 x 12 inch sq. ft. spaces for growing. These boxes take up a small amount of space and fit easily in the area ( about 2 feet wide) between the parked cars and the back wall of my apt building. The area gets about 6 hours of sunlight so it is ideal for growing. This is my second year of growing and I am a new gardener but I am happy with my results. The first year I grew...

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Putting Your Civic House in Order: How the Young Members of the Family Help

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Gardening
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...er to his forlorn corner patch. Toni turned “good” and through interest in gardening got interested in other phases of school work. With him, as with all children, mastery of the soil proved mastery of self. The movement showed parents how the work of children can be made the means of contributing to the family income, thus making it possible for them to stay in school longer. In one district two inexperienced young boys in their very first garden...

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Making It

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...ctions for a wide range of projects, from building a 99-cent solar oven to making your own laundry soap to instructions for brewing beer. Making It is the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive and eminently doable. Our goal in this book was to provide really stripped down, simple projects that use only inexpensive, easy to source materials. We also tried to use the same materials and ingredients over and over a...

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Front Yard Vegetable Gardeners Fights Back

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Gardening, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...up the front yard vegetable garden they’ve tended for 17 years. NPR has the details here. Listen to that story and you’ll get to hear an especially ridiculous grilling from a code enforcement official. It’s absurd when city codes single out “vegetables.” Broadleaf plantain is a vegetable and anyone who has a lawn is probably growing it. Many flowers such as calendula are edible. Broccoli is a flower. I could go on. Let’s just say that we wish Rick...

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