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Mar 11, 2010, Rustic Garden Craft - Water Jug Cottage

Making rustic garden crafts not only beautify your xeric garden, they can be useful too. Making a water jug cottage is a unique project to make your irrigation system fun again.

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Mar 11, 2010, Rustic Garden Craft - Twig Obelisk

Rustic garden crafts like a twig obelisk adds a country feel to your xeric garden, as well as using what could otherwise be waste.

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Mar 11, 2010, Rustic Garden Craft - Twig Fence

Rustic garden crafts like a twig fence adds a country feel to your xeric garden, as well as using what could otherwise be waste.

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Mar 11, 2010, Rustic Garden Craft - Barnboard Potting Bench

One of my favorite projects, after twig fence building, is making garden furnishings such as seating, tables or rustic potting benches.

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Mar 11, 2010, Sheet Composting

Sheet composting is the technique of composting in a low bed, rather than a bin situation. It can contribute to soil enhancement, as well as a weed free planting bed.

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Mar 11, 2010, Lasagna Gardening

Lasagna gardening is similar to sheet composting, but you actually never turn this or dig it over. In fact, you never have to do anything to it again, except add more ingredients to your lasagna.

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Mar 11, 2010, Hot Bed

A hot bed is a perfect way to use compost from the chicken house due to its heat producing potential.

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Mar 11, 2010, Chicken Pen Compost

The chicken pen compost is in an outside area that I put leaves, garden refuse, horse manure and old hay where the chickens can scratch to their hearts content.

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Mar 11, 2010, Chicken House Compost

Chicken house compost is nutrient rich and valuable if processed properly. I raise my chickens using the deep litter method which provides lots of great compost.

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Mar 11, 2010, Bio-diversity in a Sustainable Garden

Bio-diversity is more than simply avoiding mono-cropping. It is a system of actively seeking to combine as many life forces as possible into an area. This means soil life, insects, and plants.

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