3. Hone your pruning skills

4. A maze your friends and family

5. Miniature knot gardens

7. Do a topiary accent

10. Espalier

15. Bonsai

19. Pleaching

22. Garden Structures

24. Plant a Green Roof Starting small

32. Slug repellant Rosemary is a potent slug repellant –Rosemary clippings spread under hostas and delphinium give good protection Beer in a low profile container will trap slugs and they will die happy A flat board between rows in the garden will trap slugs. They crawl under during the day and you can salt them. Avant gardener Aug 07

34. Bird repellant Starlings eat fruit, corn and other plants. Garlic oil sprayed corn and ripening crops repels starlings. As little as 1% garlic oil reduces their appetite by 2/3. Avant Gardener June 05

36. Germination Mix 3 gallons peat 1 gallon loam (pasteurized) 1/2C base fertilizer Base Fertilizer –3 pts bone meal –2 parts wood ash –1 part blood meal –2 parts dolomite lime

37. Grow Heirlooms

38. Make Heirlooms/ open pollinated Varieties Keep the seeds from your favorite hierloom ( easy with Tomatoes as they are self pollinating) Plant out the seeds, and get rid of the plants that don’t meet expectations. Only keep seed from the best fruit

39. resources http://www.seedsave.org/i ssi/904/beginner.htmlhttp://www.seedsave.org/i ssi/904/beginner.html Loads of other websites Seed To Seed Susanne Ashworth Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties Carol Deppe

40. Wasps Are repelled by mint –Mint aerosol “poison free” www.victorpest.comwww.victorpest.com Wasp stings can be neutralized by placing a penny on the sting for 15 min. ( I haven’t tried this yet)