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Tips for pintsize gardens are always helpful. This infographic provides some welcomed information. You can also find more infographics at Visualistan

My Rubiks Cube is almost 40 years old and in all this time I only managed to solve it once. I have long lost the cheatsheet and am happy to have found these instructions. You can also find more infographics at Visualistan

carrots and onions Some plants just don't do well together, whereas other protect each other from bugs. Did you know that tomatoes and cucumbers can't stand each other? Check out this helpful post about companion planting today...

I can't tell you which of these 9 tips to kill weeds naturally will actually work, but I would consider giving it a try to see what works best for you. My personal trick is to use my electric kettle from the kitchen, which I don't really use in the kitchen and boil water and then pour it over the weeds. I have used the recipe below and have discovered that there are many more variations on the web. Play around with the mix until you get the result you want. Some adjustment tips use regular salt reduce the amount of salt to 1 cup reduce the amount of Dawn dish soap to 1 TBsp

I came across this very detailed vegetable growing cheat sheet and placed the info here, so I would not misplace it. This is  the link  to the original full-size infographic page.

I had to grow some grass, but was not quite sure how to keep the birds away. Then a neighbour suggested, why don't you put CDs up? So I gave it a try. I marked the perimeter of the area to be seed with bamboo sticks about 3 feet apart and then strung string wrapped around each stick and finally added CDs between the sticks. Now it looks like I have dancing CDs in the garden. All the neighbours stop and wonder what it was for. And the CDs do keep the birds away. I have the birds all over my garden, but not in the freshly seeded area. Nothing happened for quite some time, but after about 2 weeks the first new grass shoots started to appear. So I can highly recommend this way of growing grass. Let me know if you have tried this before and what your experience was.

I am quite happy with my square foot gardening system, but am always open to experiment with others. I am intrigued by these "10 weird intensive gardening methods that really work" from the gardening channel . Tire gardening (gardening in used tires) -  http://www.tiregarden.net/ Mittlieder method (combines soil-based gardening with hydroponic gardening) -  http://growfood.com/ Square foot gardening (planting in a square foot grid) -  http://squarefootgardening.org/square-foot-gardening-method Keyhole gardening (raised garden with a center composting basket) -  http://www.gardeningchannel.com/how-to-make-a-keyhole-garden/   Aquaponics (use fish waste to nourish plants) -  Oregonlive.com Window farms (Plants grow out of the bottle while an air pump circulate liquid nutrients that gently flow down the structure) -  one woman’s window farm initiatives Straw bale gardening (use straw bales to make raised beds) -  http://strawbalegardens.co...