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<blockquote data-quote="hearts and roses" data-source="post: 161431" data-attributes="member: 2211"><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Oh yeah, the light in the garage, stairs, and bathroom thing! That's H. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">I bought a heavy duty plastic water bottle that I can reuse and refill - it's great, has a foldover snap lid that doesn't leak at all and a straw. Camelbak - check it out.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">We also compost, which is great because by next spring I have nice rich soil to put into my veggie garden. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred"><span style="color: darkred">And I've slowly been getting rid of stuff through Freecycle and Craigslist as well - both are great</span> sites and much easier than eBay in my opinion.</span></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Garamond'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: darkred">Another way to keep pests out of your garden is to put a combination of dish soap and water in a spray bottle - make it just slimy enough that aphids and other bugs can't stick to the leaves of your tomatoes! Excellent stuff and virtually free and harmless too. Also, to keep slugs off your low lying veggies, put a bowl of beer in each corner of your garden - they slugs love the beer and will go to that instead of you delicious veggies. We divvy up the grass clippings between our compost heap and the garden to be used as mulch. I enjoy weeding, but my garden is too big to keep up with, so the clippings help. In the fall, you just turn them over into the earth - great compost.</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hearts and roses, post: 161431, member: 2211"] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]Oh yeah, the light in the garage, stairs, and bathroom thing! That's H. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]I bought a heavy duty plastic water bottle that I can reuse and refill - it's great, has a foldover snap lid that doesn't leak at all and a straw. Camelbak - check it out.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]We also compost, which is great because by next spring I have nice rich soil to put into my veggie garden. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred][COLOR=darkred]And I've slowly been getting rid of stuff through Freecycle and Craigslist as well - both are great[/COLOR] sites and much easier than eBay in my opinion.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Garamond][SIZE=3][COLOR=darkred]Another way to keep pests out of your garden is to put a combination of dish soap and water in a spray bottle - make it just slimy enough that aphids and other bugs can't stick to the leaves of your tomatoes! Excellent stuff and virtually free and harmless too. Also, to keep slugs off your low lying veggies, put a bowl of beer in each corner of your garden - they slugs love the beer and will go to that instead of you delicious veggies. We divvy up the grass clippings between our compost heap and the garden to be used as mulch. I enjoy weeding, but my garden is too big to keep up with, so the clippings help. In the fall, you just turn them over into the earth - great compost.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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