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Weekend Links
Beef up your baseboards by Love Pomegranate House
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Vintage patriotic décor by the Golden Sycamore. 
DIY chalkboard by the Girl Creative 
Sunday, June 9, 2013
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Weekend links
Could not agree more with Why Young People Leave the Church by Smockity Frocks:
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Pretty printable to frame:
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In case I ever have a garage. . . DIY craftsman garage doors:
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Adorable patriotic snack – but they look a little time consuming :)
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Have a fun weekend!
Friday, June 7, 2013
Clay Pot Wreath
I saw this wreath over at Cherry Hill Cottage awhile back. SO cute!!
It took a very LONG time to collect enough clay pots, though!
Simple to make… clay pots individually wired to a grapevine wreath.
A few notes –
Even with sales and 40% coupons the pots were around $30…. a lot more than I usually pay for wreath supplies. It would definitely be cheaper to hunt for them at thrift stores and garage sales instead.
(If you’re more patient than me).
This wreath is HEAVY!! It weighs much more than I imagined! So plan to have sturdy hanging supplies available.
You may need a few extra clay pots to replace any that are broken, say, by an errant baseball ;)
This post explains how the pots are wired to the wreath.
Using coffee to correct PH for blueberries
We are not supposed to be able to grow blueberries here. Blueberries ideally like a PH of around 4.5- 5.0 and our native soil is close to PH of 8.0!
Even my amended garden soil hovers slightly under 7.0.
Yet they still sell blueberry plants at the nurseries and big box stores in our area. Go figure!
I cannot seem to help buying them {ha!} and now have 3 blueberry plants, varying from 2-3 years old.
Here’s how I grow them in our alkaline soil: When digging a hole for the plant, I dig it larger than necessary and remove all the soil from the hole, to be used elsewhere. In place of the native soil I use a mix of about 75% moistened peat moss and 25% compost.
And every 3-4 weeks I water the plants with coffee “tea.”
It’s just a packet of the icky ground coffee they sell at the dollar store, mixed with about 4 gallons of water, in a 5 gallon bucket. It sits in the sun to brew for a few hours or up to a day, if the weather is cool.
Some leaves/twigs/whathaveyou always make their way into the brew, but I don’t worry about those :)
When the “tea” turns dark and rich in color, I just give it a stir and give each plant a drink – grounds and all.
So far they have produced only a few berries, but I’m okay with that. The plants are so pretty! I consider it a small miracle that they return each spring and any blueberries that come along will be a huge BONUS!
If you have slightly better growing conditions for blueberries, I think coffee tea would be even more beneficial. Let me know if you try it!
Have a blessed weekend!
