Creating a cutting garden
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The primary purpose of a cutting garden is to produce flowers for harvesting and a modest plot of 50 to 75 square feet is sufficient to grow enough flowers to fill the house from early spring until autumn. Sowing seeds in spring for quick growing annuals like sunflowers is the least expensive way to get a cutting garden going and the plants which yield good cut flowers include aromatic aster, baby's breath, gayfeather and hyacinth.
Publication Name: This Old House
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1086-2633
Year: 2004
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Backyard blitz
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Fifteen simple tips on transformation of yard and reducing the summer maintenance are presented. Some of them are sharpening that mower blade, improving the soil, trimming any overgrown trees, offering proper food to the plants, and setting up a drip irrigation system.
Publication Name: This Old House
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1086-2633
Year: 2005
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A fortress of one's own: in search of solitude and inspired by a comic-book superhero's hideaway, novelist Michael Chabon built a private retreat in his backyard
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A private retreat that was built in the backyard of a novelist's house, which provides him solitude and peace, is described. The private retreat has a built-in bookcase that prevents the view outside the window, a skylight with northern exposure, desk and cabinets.
Publication Name: This Old House
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 1086-2633
Year: 2001
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