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How to Grow Trees From Seed

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Growing a tree from seed to maturity can be a satisfying process. Unless you have a hybrid or cultivar, the seed will produce a tree with the same basic characteristics of the parent tree. It will take some patience, though, especially when ... more »

How to Grow Twinspur (Diascia Barberae)

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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This member of the snapdragon family shows its lineage with rosy-pink flower clusters atop long stems. An annual (grows just one year), it will reach up to a foot tall. A lover of cool weather, it's good for providing spring color in the garden... more »

How to Grow Twinspur (Diascia)

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Twinspur has clusters of flowers in shades of pink that bloom all summer long. It can be grown as an annual in colder climates... more »

How to Grow Varieties of Spring Cabbage

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Gardeners in mild climates have the advantage of being able to grow spring and fall cabbages. But for those in climates with a shorter growing season, have no fear. There are still many wonderful types of spring cabbages to choose from, and the ... more »

How to Grow Winter Squash

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Winter squash, contrary to the name, is a warm season vegetable that is grown in most places in the United States. The difference is in the skin of the squash. Summer squash has thin skin and may be eaten raw or cooked. Winter squash have thick, ... more »

How to Grow Winterberry Holly

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Winter gardens won't be drab if the winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) is part of the landscape. Tiny white flowers form in June, followed by light green pea size berries that turn pink in late summer and become a stunning red before the shrub ... more »

How to Grow Wintercreeper

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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If you are in need of a hardy and vigorous groundcover, consider wintercreeper. Also called Euonymus fortunei, it is an evergreen shrub that trails along the ground like a vine or attaches itself to vertical support with small roots much like an ... more »

How to Grow Your Own Sprouts

By irwriter

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If you love alfalfa or bean sprouts on your salad or in stir fry, you'll love growing your own fresh sprouts at home. It's fun, easy, and doesn't take that much time, so before you know it, you'll be sprouting your own favorite seeds whenever the ... more »

How to Gut a House

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Gutting a house is endless, tiresome, dirty work. In order to be time effective, use up to twelve people. Depending on the amount of people helping, gutting a house could take three days or a month. If you have the help, split up into teams and ... more »

How to Hand Pollinate Garden Plants

By Dr. Christopher J. Kline

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Some plants need a helping hand for good pollination when grown indoors or in a greenhouse, but it is easier than one may think... more »

How to Handle a Broken Tomato Stalk

By AutumnLeavz

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Most people who garden have had this happen. You might go out to check your garden only to find that one of the stalks have broken. Maybe you missed it and didn't tie it up properly. Do not fear or worry. You can usually get it to repair ... more »

How to Hang a Collection of Picture Frames

By sharishops

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Have you ever admired a wall of framed pictures that just seem to make a room come alive? It's not that hard to do and with a little planning, you can have your own gallery of photographs at home!.. more »

How to Hang a Rug or Textile

By nanrk

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Antique rugs, or other textiles can make wonderful wall decorations. There are many ways to hang rugs, but the main thing to remember is to hang it so its weight is displaced equally. Today many museums are using Velcro to hang their textile ... more »

How to Hang a Shower Curtain

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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What's worse than stepping out of the shower after drying off only to find you've landed in a huge puddle of water? Hanging a shower curtain will not only give you privacy while in the shower, it will keep the water from splashing out onto the ... more »

How to Hang Art

By Erinn Valencich

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Hanging art is not a science, but sometimes it may feel that way. Here, I make it easy for you if you follow these instructions... more »

How to Hang Pictures Creatively From Your Ceiling

By SexyAngel82

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This is an idea I thought of when I saw the big pile of pictures I had of my kids and didn't have any frames to put them in. I wanted to put them in their room where they couldn't mess with them so I decided to hang them from their ceiling. ... more »

How to Hang Stuff from Wire Shelving

By AuntPhyl

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Wire shelving is great for organizing your garage. At the same time, the shelving stands in front of walls where nails used to hold mops, cords and brushes. With the right hooks, the shelves can hold those awkward items. Many cleaning supplies ... more »

How to Harden Off Seedling Plants

By Lisa Smegal

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Tips on how to harden off seedling plants that have been started indoors, before transplanting them to the outdoors... more »

How to Harvest an Apple Tree

By AlanK

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Let's face it. We're not all dedicated farmers or garden enthusiasts. Many of us just happen to have an apple tree on the property. We don't go out of our way to prune or water, and we don't know much about pest control. Yet every year or two, ... more »

How to Harvest and Cure Organic Tobacco

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Grown without any man-made insecticides, fertilizers, herbicides or fungicides, organic tobacco is a growing niche market for farmers with smaller acreage. Organic tobacco yields nearly twice the price per pound than conventional tobacco. Follow ... more »

How to Harvest and Dry Catnip

By cgronwall

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You planted catnip seeds in the spring thinking of the fun you’d have with your cat. Now you find yourself with a mound of leafy green catnip and don’t know what to do. Harvesting and drying catnip is as easy as the catnip was to grow in the ... more »

How to Harvest and Store Lemons

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Chances are that if you surveyed a group of gourmet cooks, they'd rank the lemon as the fruit they'd least want to do without. If you live where you can grow your own, count your blessings. And if good taste isn't enough, lemons also pack a load ... more »

How to Harvest Avocados

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Whether you grow avocados for your own use, or for sale, the most difficult part of the job is knowing when to pick the fruit. Since avocados do not ripen on the tree, you need other methods of knowing when and how to harvest them. With a little ... more »

How to Harvest Bell Peppers

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Bell peppers are a cultivar of Capsicum annuum, commonly known as chiles. However, bell peppers have been given a recessive gene to prevent capsaicin from being produced, which this species normally does. Bell peppers are not at all hot and also ... more »

How to Harvest Corn

By eHow Home & Garden Editor

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Corn harvesting is more than just cutting down stalks of the vegetable. It means months of hard work and maintaining the fields so that the bounty will be plentiful. When it is time to bring in the grain crop, these are the steps to a good yield... more »