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Crafting with Luffa Sponges is fun and easy to do - National Garden Bureau

Crafting with Luffa Sponge Gourds

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Luffas can be used in a variety of ways as a food source, skin scrubber, and home cleaning sponge. The dried fibrous skeleton of the gourd also makes a great natural craft material. You can create fiber crafts, mixed media art projects, and home items using dried vines, gourds, and seeds.  Luffa vines are sturdy...
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Sunflower DIY Projects to make for summer and fall - Year of the Sunflower

Sunflower DIY Ideas

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Recipes
Easy Sunflower DIY Projects Ideas to Create on Your Own Feelin’ Sunny: Make These Sunflower DIY Projects Now!  From crafts to cooking to kids’ parties, try these bright ideas for sunflower DIY projects. Cheery, bright sunflowers: they’re the perfect plant to entice pollinators, add garden drama (the good kind, that is!), lure little ones to...
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Growing and Enjoying Luffa Sponges from your own garden - National Garden Bureau

Growing and Enjoying Luffa Sponges

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Vegetables
Growing your own supply of natural sponges is easy and fun. Luffa (loofah) sponges do not come from the sea but from the vegetable garden. These natural scrubbers belong in the family of plants that include gourds, squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and melons. They are most closely related to cucumbers in appearance and growing habits. They...
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Lavender Gifts of Love - National Garden Bureau

Lavender Gifts of Love

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
3 easy to make Lavender Gifts of Love Lavender Gifts make the perfect all-natural Valentine’s day or “just because” present. Lavender is an ideal herb to use when making sachets, bath salts, and sugar scrubs gifts for your Valentine or anytime. These simple products can be given separately or put together in a box or...
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Lavender Recipes for Health and Beauty - Year of the Lavender - National Garden Bureau

Lavender Recipes for Health and Beauty

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Easy Lavender Recipes to make at home from your garden The whole world is in love with lavender right now! This fragrant herb has become a key ingredient in almost every type of body care and home product on the market.  The easily recognizable scent is both calming and cleansing.  They say there are over...
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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator Gardening
10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0  Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...
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Kids Gardening Made Easy with these top 10 tips - National Garden Bureau

Easy Kids Gardening Activities

DIY Crafts & Gifts, Kid's Gardening
Get Outside and Garden As we all face these unpredictable times, our friends at KidsGardening created and shared these ‘tried and true’ plant-based activities that are joyful for any age and don’t involve any screen time. The national nonprofit reaches close to half of a million educators, parents and volunteers with free online gardening educational...
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5 Lovely Uses for Lavender - #yearofthelavender - National Garden Bureau

5 Lovely Uses for Lavender

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Easy Lavender Gifts You Can Make Yourself! As gardeners, we love to share a little bit of our garden with friends and loved ones by using our garden's bountiful goodness. It can be as simple as an aromatic bag of potpourri or a jar of jam made with homegrown berries. No matter what we grow...
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