Flower Gardens

» Cottage_Garden - Flowers on Cars

Do you know of any good on-line photos of flowers on cars? Like the ones in Flowers on Beetle?

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» Cottage_Garden - saving sunflower seeds

Any more hints on protecting sunflowers seeds from the birds and other critters? Good toasting recipes? Here's what I've got to offer on sunflower seeds.

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» Cottage_Garden - Fall Gardening Tips

Do you have any tips to share? Here's a few fall garden to do lists and how to information I came up with ...

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» Cottage_Garden - Animals Eating Bulbs

Need help with animals eating, digging or stealing your newly planted bulbs this fall? Get ten great tips to stopping animal damage to bulbs. DO you have more tips to add? Please let us know!!

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» Cottage_Garden - Bird Watchers Unite!

Ever year the Cornell Ornithology Laboratory puts on its Project Feeder Watch to help monitor bird populations. If you enjoy the birds in your garden, this is a great way to help "give back" to them. The time commitment is flexible and it's pretty easy to do. Will you be participating? Do you think it is a worthwhile project or a waste of time/effort? How accurate do you think it is? Get the scoop on Project Feederwatch.

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» Barbara Bell - Animals Eating Bulbs

In response to Animals Eating Bulbs posted by Cottage_Garden:

In addition to placing chicken wire over my bulbs, I was advised by the nursery to plant a few Allium among the spring bulbs. Since these are in the Onion family, supposedly they aren't attractive to critters and repel them. I don't know which of the two methods worked, but all my bulbs remained intact for many years.

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» Victoria Anisman-Reiner - Animals Eating Bulbs

In response to Animals Eating Bulbs posted by Cottage_Garden:
This is a bit of a tangent, but it worked so well I think I have to share it

I had heard that hot pepper - cayenne pepper powder - works well to deter squirrel from digging up bulbs in the garden. The "heat" of the pepper is very uncomfortable for their little paws!

When I moved to a new apartment last winter, I knew that there were blinds of a type that one of my cats really loves to chew - and I thought to preemptively coat the edges of the blinds in cayenne pepper, pasted on with a bit of water, to deter her. Works like a charm! Neither squirrels nor bigger animals like cayenne pepper.

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» greenthumb92 - Fall Gardening Tips

In response to Fall Gardening Tips posted by Cottage_Garden:

Good Afternoon all! As I sit and watch it rain out, I too am thinking if I have gotten to all my gardens needs also.
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