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Why You Should Never Skip Cleaning Garden Tools in Autumn

October 23, 2025 by Brandon Marcus Leave a Comment

You Should Never Skip Cleaning Garden Tools in Autumn

There’s a quiet magic in autumn—the golden leaves, the crisp air, and that satisfying moment when you put your garden to bed for the season. But before you pack away the gloves and call it quits, there’s one ritual too many gardeners skip: cleaning their tools. Sure, it might not sound thrilling, but trust me—this…

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Frugal Ways To Clean and Disinfect Your Garden Tools

April 7, 2023 by Kathryn Vercillo Leave a Comment

Clean and Disinfect Your Garden Tools

It’s spring and for many of us that’s a great reminder to do some spring cleaning. Cleaning isn’t just for the house, either; you should spring clean your garden. And, of course, you should clean and disinfect your garden tools throughout the year as well. Here are some of the most frugal ways that you…

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5 Frugal Ways To Disinfect Garden Tools

June 6, 2022 by Kathryn Vercillo Leave a Comment

Frugal Ways To Disinfect Garden Tools

Did you know that it’s important for you to disinfect your garden tools? It is! You want to do this regularly. If you’re having a problem with fungus or bacteria, then you should even disinfect items before using them to work on different sections of the garden. It’s not hard, though, so don’t fret. And…

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Planting a Tree This Fall? This $0 Mistake Can Kill a $100 Tree

You can spend $100—or considerably more—on a beautiful young tree, carefully drive it home, dig a hole, and unintentionally create a problem before you’ve even put the shovel away. The mistake costs nothing: planting the tree too deeply. Digging the planting hole too deep the most common mistake when planting a tree. However, improper depth…

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That Half-Dead Clearance Plant Is $3 — How Do You Know If It Can Be Saved?

There is something dangerously tempting about the clearance rack at a garden center. A perennial that cost $15 in May is suddenly $3, its flowers are gone, half its leaves are brown, and the frugal gardener in you starts calculating how much money you could save if it survives. Sometimes that ugly little clearance plant…

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Can You Grow Grocery Store Garlic Instead of Buying Seed Garlic?

Standing in the produce aisle, it’s easy to wonder why you’d pay a premium for seed garlic when an ordinary bulb of garlic may cost only a dollar or two. After all, garlic isn’t normally grown from botanical seed—you break a bulb apart and plant individual cloves, which makes grocery store garlic look like an…

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Before You Buy Compost, Look at What’s Going in Your Trash

A bag of compost at the garden center looks like a gardening product, while the coffee grounds, vegetable peelings, cardboard, and fallen leaves leaving your house look like trash. Put those materials together correctly, however, and you have many of the ingredients needed to make homemade compost without repeatedly buying bags of soil amendment. The…

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