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Gnats Gnats Gnats
But You have to take the plant out of the pot and wash all the soil out of the roots, and then you need to wash the pot and put new fress soil in. ...
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- I have the same problem every year. There are some decent insecticidal soaps that are made from natural ingredients, but I understand why you would not want to use the...
- Oh my, we just had ths problem and had to have someone come and spray for them. But, it did not work. We put little cups of apple cidar vinegar around and it took a ...
- I have battled with this too. I use a product called tough and Tender made from Melaleuca. It doen't contain any chemicals and is safe. I also use it to keep the bugs ...
Decorating Daughter's Desk for May Day
If you want to be really sneaky have your daughter decorate the pot herself ( paint & stickers), saying it is a gift for someone or you want to plant ...
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- Get a pot and put stones in it then stick pencils into the stones that are decorated like flowers. You can decorate the pot too.
- What a cute idea! You could decorate your daughter's desk like a Maypole--alternating colored streamers fanned out and taped to the floor (if there's room...not sure o...
- Could you wrap the entire desk top in wrapping paper--maybe something flowery and spring-like, and then have all sorts of fancy decorations underneath and inside? Tha...
Holiday Traditions
Thanksgiving tree: We have a small green plant pot full of marbles. Each Thanksgiving, my husband and kids go out and find a branch to put in the pot to ...
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- We just started this one. One of the uncles dresses up as Santa and walks around the outside of the house with his back to the windows like he's looking in the sky. ...
- My earliest childhood memories of Christmas always included the annual train ride to the city. We would meet at the train station (it started as my parents, the 6 of u...
- The only tradition I've established is doing what works on any given year! I mean, we celebrate Halloween by dressing up and going Trick-or-Treating, Fourth of July wi...
Need It Easy Because No Green Thumb Here
I then got them their own colored ceramic pot ($2.00 each) and let them plant some flowers. They water them when they need it. My mom gave me some roses so ...
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- I think that you can't go wrong with Hastas for your plants and Begonias for your flowers. They are both very LOW MAINTENANCE and they look really nice. The Hastas w...
- I would find some kind of shrub/bush that you like the looks of. Those are the only full sun plants that I can not kill and I have a full-on black thumb.
- I do not have a green thumb either but I have longed for a flower garden, I am a single mom in the middle of a divorce so I thought this is for me! The soil is really...
Tomatoes!!!
I have very little sun in my yard so I could only do one pot with a regular tomato plant and one with a cherry tomato, but they're both loaded! ...
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- Oh, I'm so jealous! Slice the nice juicy red tomatoes (not too thin or thick and layer them slightly over each other til you have a nice plate or platter full. If yo...
- I love the idea of freezing the tomatoes! I am no authority, but here is my 2 cents... Tomato sauce is easy. Heat some olive oil in a pot, add minced or crushed garlic...
- When I was a kid we had a huge garden! I haven't started one for myself yet but, plan to next year. Anyhow, my mom made this incredible jam or preserve out of tomato...
Ideas for Meaningful Room Mom and Volunteer Thank You's
First would be the easiest- small clay pot filled with a spring blooming plant- tie a rafia ribbon around the pot and there you go. ...
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- As a former voluntter myself, the things I enjoyed and kept the most were magnets. One of the most meaningful magnets I received was one that had a poem on it that tal...
- Hi Michal, I was also room Mom and PTA president in past years, I really like the clay pot idea with seeds- instead of the rafia I would look into the Susan G Komen B...
- Hi, Michal, This is something I did for my daughter's teachers this year. I went to the craft store and bought them bracelets and found individualized charms for th...
Help! Need Affordable Gift Ideas for Group of 9 Aunts and Uncles?
We have plans on putting moss inside the pot along with a bag of seeds for them to plant in the pot. Helpful? Yes | No Save This Remove This Report This ...
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- What about gift cards to restaurant.com or places you know they like to go eat? Restaurant.com would allow them to take your small purchase and use it to get a larger ...
- have her make book marks - she decorates book mark sized pieces of paper, you glue on a pic of her then write the year and her name on them and some saying about enjoy...
- for my bulk gifts I go to blockbuster get a 5 dollar gift card, TUB of micro popcorn and two movie box candies. It cost me 9.00 for each!!!! good luck
Gnats in My Houseplants!
Sep 28, 2009 ... I got a venus flytrap (carnivorous plant), and put it next to my pot that was breeding gnats. I think it caught every last one of them. ...
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- In addition to what has been said (and I am very intrigued by the petroleum jelly solution) I would add that you you can act to rid the buggers now with a Schultz prod...
- Gnats often come in the potting soil you buy. Throw out any potting soil you have because it is probably infested with gnat eggs. The best way to get rid of them is ...
- We had to let our plants completely dry out for a little over a month and then the gnats went away.
Pre-K Teacher End of Year Gift
2 years ago my 1st grader had the same Pre-K teacher and she decided to paint a terracotta pot and picked out a flower to plant in it, the teacher loved it! ...
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- Make each of them a spa in a tub-who needs some pampering more than PreK teachers. Go toDollar General and pick up a foot soak tub-aka a dish tub-then head off to Dol...
- My son gave his teachers a plant one year and I had him draw a picture and try to write something with each one. The next year we did gift certificates to a book stor...
- We've done various things over the years for preschool teachers. One year the families chipped in and we bought a digital camera for the teacher - she'd been using di...
End of Year Teacher Gift
I had her write the words, "forget-me-not" on the pot, then some words to describe her teacher. We even included a plant "stake" with her picture on it. ...
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- i worked at a daycare and always loved when people baked us stuff (cookies, brownies, ect.), you only need to many mugs and bowls of potpurri. good luck
- I am a part time teacher and my husband is a HS teacher and we just love to receive gift cards at the end of the year or on holidays. As an educator you can only have...
- Believe me, I am not trying to promote this for selfish reasons. But what a lot of my friends have done is buy a gift album (I actually sell them) and then the teache...
