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Are you trying to keep your plants, especially tropical plants, alive through this cold weather in the Fall and the Winter?

Do you like to start your own plants before Spring to get a head start?

If you have a greenhouse, I know you’re serious about gardening…

Improve the efficiency of your greenhouse growing with greenhouse heaters.

At my mother’s home in Canada, we have a few banana plants, palms, citrus trees, aloe plants, some other succulents, orchids and a few oleanders that we bring inside for winter. It seems we run out of space in the house sometimes and the plants just get bigger every year.

We’ve been looking at some small greenhouses and greenhouse heaters to make the winter months easier and help those plants be as healthy as they can be come Springtime.

Depending upon how large your greenhouse is will determine how many BTUs you’ll need to fully heat the space and keep your plants alive and healthy.

The harsh winter months will be no competition for these helpful heaters that are available in electric and propane models that are either stationary or portable for ease of use.

With built-in thermostats, you can customize the perfect temperature for your prized outdoor plants through the harsh winter months.

You’ll save money because you won’t have to re-purchasing your favorite tropical plants, which are often quite expensive, and/or seed your own plants to be ready to plant strong seedlings in the Spring.

I love to start my own seedlings…it gives me such a sense of accomplishment, I save money and my plants are further ahead than if I plant seeds in Spring.

Not only will your garden be the talk-of-the-town next year, your wallet will thank you too…

Plus, what’s a nicer way to improve your mood than to visit your very own greenhouse with lush, tropical plants in the dead of winter…Escape the dark and dreary days with green life!

Not only are these greenhouse heaters great for greenhouses, but will work well for garages, barns and outdoor living spaces.

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I hope you enjoyed this Winter Gardening Information on Home and Gardening Today! Until next time…

Get Your Plants Through Winter,

Kimberly Edwards

P.S. Last year, I planted my tomatoes and veggies in October!

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Fall is such a pretty season, isn’t it?

So, why are you wondering why your yard and garden beds look so messy right now?

It’s probably the falling leaves from the trees that are keeping your lawn and garden looking neat, tidy and perfect.

It’s covering up the pretty black soil, makes your plants look messy and well, covers up your green grass that may have another month or two left before the cold of winter starts to set in.

No problem - it’s an easy fix…Grab that rake or a leaf blower.

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The Green Movement is here and is in full effect. Everyone’s finding new and improved ways to lower their carbon footprint and live in an eco-friendly way.

We’ve been composting for years by throwing our food waste, minus anything with protein, into our gardens.

* Tip: Removing the protein keeps rodents much less interested in the organics.

We get fabulous results and have really reduced our waste we throw away in the garbage at the curb.

Now, we have a composting recycling program in Ontario, but we still try to supplement our own gardens with great organic waste.

It would be very helpful, however, to have an Earthmaker composter - one which contains the organic waste until it’s viable compost.

This would cut down on biodegrading time, flies and would be a lot prettier to look at in the garden than egg shells and onion peels.

Worried about animals trying to get in your earthmaker aerobic composter? No need to worry.

They have a secure, swiveling door at the top that keeps these animals out.

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Honestly, I was sitting here on the bed thinking about what I wanted to write about and caught a glimpse of our pillows on the bed.

Springmaid Density Bed Pillows

Every single time I look at these pillow cases from Springmaid, they make me smile.

They are the most vibrant colors reminiscent of the fantastic beauty of Indian fabrics and garb.

These pillow cases are adorned in melon orange, fading into scarlet orange, fuschia, magenta and then into a grapey purple, but not until there is an ornate pattern on the ends.

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Well, no doubt, if you’re human, you’ll have to hand wash your clothes at some time in your life.

When you do, remember these tips for an easy way to hand wash your clothes in a sink.

1. Pre-Soak: You will want to pre-soak your clothes in one side of the sink in cold water for darks and colors and warm for whites. This will get your clothes wet and releasing a good deal of dirt, if there is any.

* Tip: If you’re washing a variety of colors, be sure to start with all of your white, then pastels, then brights, then darks. If you get out of synch with this order, you’ll end up with pink whites, and dingy colors.

2. Wash: In the other side of the sink from where you’re pre-soaking, you’ll mix your water and washing detergent. A few items at a time, transfer the clothes from the pre-soaking side to the washing side after wringing water out of them.

You will swish the clothes around in the water, scrubbing any problem areas and being sure to squish the soapy water through them.

* Tip: You will be “balling up” each item and “kneading” it against the side of the sink - as you would a ball of bread dough. Allowing the ball the fill up with water again in between kneads, so you can really get a good wash through the clothing.

When you feel comfortable that they are adequately washed, item by item, wring out as much water as you can and set the clothes aside until you’re finished washing - whites with whites, colors with colors, darks with darks - and do not let them touch or you could have bleeding of the dyes in the clothing onto lighter colored pieces.

* Tip: If water in either side gets too dingy and dirty or you no longer feel soap on your hands when washing, empty the sink completely and start over with fresh water, or fresh water and soap, for the next batch of clothing.

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If you don’t want to buy pesticides or dangerous insect killers for your yard, try this method when trying to get rid of ants.

This is the “old school” way that your grandparents may remember.

If you put a trail of cornmeal and sugar mixed together leading out of your home, the ants will come and eat the cornmeal.

Well, cornmeal simply is not digestible for ants.

So, they eat it, or bring it to their queen in their ant hills and she eats it. She and the other ants cannot digest the grains of cornmeal, so they naturally die.

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When you go to the store and buy beans for bean plants, you can’t simply come home and plant them straight into the ground.

The same goes for peas as well.

When you get home, open up the packages and place as many of each type of bean plant into their own separate dessert bowl by type of bean (or another tiny bowl) with lukewarm water in it.

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