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Author :: B Hirst  |
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| Article Title :: Trades and Barter are My Favorites |
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I once put an add in the paper that said, "If it free its for
me". I had to stop the add because I collected so much stuff.
Adds do work. The problem with this add was it was not specific
enough to target what I was looking for. Over time and years I
then started to swap and barter the free stuff that I got for
things I really wanted. I had hundreds of broken lawn mowers and
hundreds of gallons of old unwanted paint. I had enough paint to
dip a house if needed. Disposal now became an issue. Thus I came
up with the idea of trading and barter. Now I did not invent
this wheel but I had enough of them that it appeared I might
have. So barter has become a means of swapping and exchanging my
surp (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Planting instructions for Nursery stock |
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All people handling seedlings and small trees need to help with
the life support of your plants. Seedlings are like fish out of
water and need care which is often overlooked between the time
the seedlings are lifted and transplanted. Improper care means
higher mortality. Do not try and reinvent the wheel. You must
protect seedling from moisture and temperature extremes, as well
as physical damage. Seedlings are living and should be handled
carefully. For a higher survival rate, treat trees carefully and
plant them immediately. I like to have a backup plan for
planting if the weather turns bad. I will sometimes switch from
lining out the seedlings to potting them up if I realize that
th (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: River Birch Trees |
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River Birch Trees When I was in the 8th grade I would go fishing
along the Delaware River at night. I would camp along the river
bank and fish into the wee hours of the night. I am always
drifting back to those childhood memories when I pass a river
birch tree that is highlighted by lights at night. The nightime
interest that this tree expresses can help capture moments for
you. The main feature of this medium sized spreading tree is its
colorful peeling bark. This builds up on the stem and main
branches in soft curling layers of orange, pink, grey and brown.
Another great advantage of this species is its tolerance of wet
soil and seasonal flooding making it an ideal pond or riverbank
tree. (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Viburnums: Shrubs With All Season Interest |
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Viburnums: Shrubs with All Season Interest Viburnums are the
most attractive, versatile, adaptable shrubs for any landscape.
They can be used as hedges or screens and in mixed
perennial/shrub borders. They can also stand alone as specimen
plants. They usually take the form of shrubs, but some species
can become small ornamental trees. They range in size from the
Dwarf American Cranberrybush at 2 feet tall by 2 feet wide, to
the Siebold at over 15 feet tall.
Viburnums are plants with year round interest. Viburnums have
white to pink flowers in the spring. They have large, attractive
and often textured leaves. Some viburnums have wonderfully
fragrant flowers that are produced in snowball sh (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: William Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Saving Energy By planting Nursery Stock and windbreaks |
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In the past week there has been an increasing interest in
landscape design for energy conservation. Rising fuel costs can
be offset by landscaping. The primary goal is to control wind
and sun. In Pa. the first line of defence for energy savings is
protection from the cold winter winds by the use of landscaping.
Research shows that properly designed screens and buffers can
reduce the heating cost of a typical residence by as much as 30
percent. Arborvitae can work to also help cut your heating costs
by using them for a wind screen. Arborvitae For Winter Fuel
Saving There have been studies that show that wind speeds around
homes can be reduced by as much as 90%. The best design for
windbreaks (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: Antonio Teixeira |
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| Article Title :: A Hobby Greenhouse Will Get You Growing! |
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For people who would like to do more gardening but live in a
short growing season area, a hobby greenhouse is the answer. A
hobby greenhouse is not large enough to produce vegetables or
flowers on a commercial basis. It will, however, give you a
place for a tomato plant or two and some fresh greens even if
you live in the northern regions. Greenhouse enthusiasts even
have their own association, called the Hobby Greenhouse
Association, which publishes a quarterly magazine. The
organization also sponsers events and helps individuals connect
to get help with the aspect of gardening that they are
interested in, whether it's growing cacti or saving seeds.
If you are in the market for a hobby gr (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: My Story on starting out in buying properties for growing plants |
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Bill's Life and his Lessons Learned and Opinions, Part III
When I was twelve years old, I had bought and sold many shares
of stock on the NYSE. I was a motor mouth even then. I always
was eager to talk to anyone who liked to invest and discuss
stock picks. One of my fathers friends John was such a person.
John only had a 3rd grade education. His mother was a prostitute
and his first job was collecting and selling leaches to whores
in Trenton to be used to remove hickies on their...Well, you got
the picture?
John could hardly speak, he studderd so bad that it was a labor
to talk to him. But John was no dummy. He had gone on to become
a noted designer of transformers and had built up a lar (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Winter Gardening Tips |
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Winter Gardening Tips
Winter can be a bleak hard time of the year for the grower of
nursery stock. The days are short and the nights are long. Yet
growing plants is a year round activity that does require the
grower to be performings tasks.
Watering plants can be be on your list. The ground may not be
frozen and plants still use water. If the ground is not frozen
you can still water if the ground will accept the water. Most
plants are dormant so the amount of watering is not as high as
in the hotter seasons. Evergreens lose water through their
needles in the winter. So if one keeps watering as long as
possible into the winter, seedlings and plants will suffer less
stress. Winter drying o (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Acid Loving Plants |
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Growing Acid Loving Plants
Growing azaleas, rhododendrons, blueberries, holly, pieris,
heather, and other plants that love acidic and organisc soils.
One of my fond memories of being 12 was catching my first shad.
Each spring the shad migrate up the Delaware River to end their
life long journey to spawn. Their migration is like clockwork,
arriving exactly on time, like the swallows of Capistrano each
year. In many ways so are the flowers and buds on plants. I
remember my shad and the picture of this trophy. I was standing
next to a large azalea in full bloom. Each year I would see the
blooms on that azalea and know that as they swelled so the shad
were approaching. Thus I came to associa (read full article) |
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| Category :: Home & Garden Articles |
Author :: B Hirst |
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| Article Title :: Deer Damage to Nursery Stock |
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Resistance of Seedlings and Nursery Stock to Deer Damage
Damage to seedlings by deer will increase as it has over the
past 20 years.We don't believe that there are any 100 per cent
effective methods to stop deer damage except 10' high woven wire
fences are that to costly for most small growers. Human
populations moving to rural areas will continue. Loss of
huntable land will increase as will deer populations. Deer
having multiple births coupled with increasing gun regulation is
likly to continue. There are few natural controls for deer
populations. Opening your land to hunting is an effective
practice for lowering deer populations. Since deer are
nocturnal, hunting may not be totally effec (read full article) |
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