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#garden #gardening #gardeningonabudget #frugalgardener #wintergarden #wintergardening #vegetablegarden #gardenersoftumblr Jan 2018

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Words to live by, brought to you from the local Bellevue Nursery.

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Hi! So I want to grow plants in my room but it is very small. I can’t keep them in my window frame so I will have to put them on a shelf against my wall. The shelf is in front of the window but my plants wont get much direct sunlight so I am scared I won’t be able to take care of them for that long. Is it possible or not? If so how could I take good care of them and if not is there any other way I can take care of them in my room or not?

Hi! Sorry that I didn’t reply to this sooner! There are lots of neat ways to make Plant Space in small bedrooms, even if you can’t use a window frame. (Though how much light they will need will of course depend on the plant, and I would make sure that the plants your worried about even NEED direct sunlight, a lot of them don’t prefer it.)

You could buy a simple shelf that you can just screw into the wall under/closer to your window like this (photo credit): 

Or you can have one of these cute little key-hanger shelves and put it on the wall next to your window or at least closer to the window than your bookshelf, and hang some plants off of the knobs there: 

Something I personally REALLY wanna do, and that I think is awesome because you can move it around anywhere, is to hang plants from a coat hanger and keep it closer to your window, like this (photo credit): 

AAAH ALSO THIS THING THAT I REALLY WANNA DO it looks really simple, just put a bare, sturdy curtain rod up over your window and hang plants from it (photo credit): 

And this other thing is pretty neat too BUT you would have to make a lot of wall space and it likely wouldn’t be any closer than the bookshelf you’re currently using (photo credit): 

Of course, you could also have a table in your room just for plants and either move it closer to your window or provide a sun lamp for them if you think they aren’t getting enough light. But that would make your room very warm, and it can be a little tricky to balance out how much to water them and being careful not to burn them with the lamp. If anyone has other ideas, please feel free to add! 

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Gardening, weeding, and leaf clearing day!

When you live on chalk downland and are doing the weeding, you’ll need another container for all the flints and chalk! Going to use them to place around the base of shrubs in the summer to help keep them from drying out. Not an issue now…

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BEAUTIFUL GARDENS!

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These succulents are growing under our apricot tree

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How to make artisan cider & perry

Part 3: Taste testing That’s definitely the best part about this whole process - tasting the finished product. Just as our apple trees are about to bloom again, their fruit’s cider is finally ready. It’s been slowly fermenting all winter long and the only thing left to do now is filling it into custom bottles.

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it’s rhubarb season! I already made rhubarb lemonade, muffins, popsicles and pudding - it’s always the first thing to eat in spring and I absolutely love it

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