Category : Gardening : Home & Garden

How to Build Your Own Fruit Cage

Gardening
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Fruit cages protect growing fruit from various pests and bugs. Fruit cages are lightweight and are covered with bug netting to keep even the smallest of flies away from the fruit. Various types of fruit flies are the biggest threat to fruit. These pests can destroy a crop overnight be eating the fru

Colonial Uses of Herbs

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Herbs provided a major use for colonists. The Colonial time period, from the 1600s through the 1700s, saw doctors and women treat sickness with herbal plants. Other applications included placement in food and drinks. People made pesticides to fight against mosquitoes, beetles and mice. Most herbs ca

How to Grow Paper Shell Almonds

Gardening
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Almond trees are deciduous and originate from the Mediterranean region, although they are in commercial cultivation in other temperate regions of the world. Paper shell almonds are varieties of almonds with unusually thin shells. A pound of whole paper shell almonds contains at least 11 oz. of almon

What to Plant to Feed Deer

Gardening
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Deer are considered browsers, eating a variety of plants.deer image by Charles Kaye from Fotolia.comDeer prefer different plants in different regions, partly based on the total plant selection available but also on what they have "learned" to eat. Deer will eat almost anything --...