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Grow 100 lbs. Of Potatoes In 4 Square Feet: {How To}

TipNut — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:14 +0000

Quite the clever gardening tip here folks! Today’s feature includes tips from three different sources for growing potatoes vertically (in layers) instead of spread out in rows across your garden. If you have limited garden space or want to try some nifty gardening magic, this could be a great option for you. First, there’s this article [...]

Cooking & Baking With Butter: {Kitchen Q&A}

TipNut — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:14:28 +0000

Butter is a key ingredient for both cooking and baking and you’ll find it well stocked in nearly every homemaker’s kitchen. This week’s Kitchen Questions and Answers is all about butter: Did you know you can stock up on sales and freeze butter? Or how much a stick of butter is and what its measurement [...]

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How To Make Stone Planters: {DIY}

TipNut — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:08:31 +0000

Today’s feature is from Martha Stewart with instructions for making these lovely Stone Planters: Make your own stunning planter using stones and cement. Making these is easy! Fill a large plastic bin with sand and make a hole inside, arrange the rocks along the sides of the hole, fill with cement, stick in a couple dowels for [...]

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15 Potting Bench Plans: {Free DIY Projects & Tips}

TipNut — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:37:06 +0000

Working with a potting bench during gardening season is pure luxury and you’ll find yourself looking forward to puttering away at your own little garden center. You can have everything organized in one location, including bags of potting soil, empty pots and containers, hanging garden tools, plant food and fertilizers (just make sure to store them [...]

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Tipnut’s Hit List – February 2010 – Popular Tips

TipNut — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:19:13 +0000

If you’re new to Tipnut or wish to revisit a few of the goodies, here is a list of popular tips from last month (based on page views) that you won’t want to miss. They’re in no particular order. The next set has a thank you and introduction to a few bloggers that shared Tipnut with [...]

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Casual & Fun Foldover Bag: {Sewing Tutorial}

TipNut — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:05:30 +0000

Today’s feature is from Bloom with this lovely Foldover Bag Tutorial: Ready for a casual and fun spring bag?! Here it is: the Fold-Over Bag! This can be a really fun and functional bag. I used a home dec weight fabric from ikea for the exterior of this bag, but you could also use a regular quilting [...]

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Easter Lily Care & Tips For Transplanting Outdoors

TipNut — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:24:48 +0000

Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum) are beautiful with their white trumpet flowers and are traditionally given as gifts or purchased for decoration during the Easter season. This year don’t toss the plant after the blooms are gone–try transplanting the lily in your garden and you could be rewarded with more blooms in the Fall (if you’re [...]

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18 Potato Salad Recipes To Try

TipNut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:06:58 +0000

I fired up the barbecue for the first time this year (the weather has been unusually nice lately) and now I’m on the hunt for this year’s first batch of potato salad–I’m looking for something new to try. This week’s Recipe Hit List is a great selection of recipes I’ve found around the ‘net, some [...]

How To Steam Broccoli In The Microwave: {Quick & Easy}

TipNut — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:15:02 +0000

This method for cooking/steaming broccoli is a must-have in my kitchen bag of tricks. Use fresh bunches of broccoli and you’ll never settle for bags of frozen again–it comes out delicious in minutes with no special gadgets required! Here’s how… How To Cook Broccoli In The Microwave Wash and trim broccoli bunches then separate into smaller pieces, [...]

Star Fruit Cushion Tutorial: {Sewing}

TipNut — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:05:17 +0000

Here’s a fun, creative cushion idea from Matching Pegs for today’s feature: Star Fruit Cushion Tutorial: This cushion is really a large version of a Lotus Biscornu, and used May Britt’s Pincushion Tutorial as a starting point (with her permission). I thought it ended up looking like a cut piece of Star Fruit, hence the [...]

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