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Come Join My New Gardening Group Called: Grow It Cook It Eat! - We Will Be Discussing Seed Starting Herbs and More!

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Come Join My New Gardening Group Called: Grow It Cook It Eat! - We Will Be Discussing Seed Starting Herbs and More! You are all invited! Grow It Cook It Eat It FB Group - Come Join! Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop Here's to a great gardening 2017 season. We do a video series called Grow It Cook It Eat It. As we build members this month, we will be focusing, come January, on seed starting you own vegetables. January will start with lighting, seed starting supplies and starting herbs. Why not join our FB group and learn! We are launching a Gardening and Cooking FB Group focused on sharing home grown food with family and friends. Check out the pinned description for details and group theme.  We have a big season planned for GCE 2017. I'll start be giving away 25 packs of seeds (mixed lot)  on December 15th to a randomly drawn new GCE member. Grow It Cook It Eat It FB Group - Come Join! Below is the description of the Grow It Cook It Eat FB group. Col...

Using 100% Cold Pressed Neem Oil for Chewing Insects: Don't Get Fooled by Hydrophobic Extracts

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Using 100% Cold Pressed Neem Oil for Chewing Insects: Don't Get Fooled by Hydrophobic Extracts Please Visit The Rusted Garden Vegetable Seed and Garden Shop   I’ve been using organic 100% cold pressed Neem Oil with all its natural components for nearly 5 years in my garden to control chewing insects. If you are plagued by caterpillars/insects chewing your cabbage family, also known as the Brassicaceae family, plant leaves, you have an organic solution to stop them. That would include broccoli, cauliflower, kohlrabi, kale and other leafy green plant not in the family. A natural component in Neem Oil called Azadirachtin will impair the systems of chewing insects when ingested. They will die off in a few days. The bonus is that once it is sprayed and dried, it will not harm other insects that come in contact with it. It has to be ingested. This product has been used in India for centuries. I highly recommend you search Neem Oil and India as a phrase. Historically, the story goes lik...

Show What You Grow (E1): 5 Vegetable Gardening Tips, Contest Winners & Bloopers

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Show What You Grow (E1):  5 Vegetable Gardening Tips,  Contest Winners & Bloopers Welcome to Show What You Grow - E1. This is an ongoing collaboration series I am doing with CaliKim. She has a wonderful garden YT channel she shoots on the west coast. This series will offer garden tips from the both of us, plus it will show off 3-5 contest winners from our Instagram Garden contests. You can win a place in our next video by doing a 1 minute Instagram garden tour showing off what you are growing  and offering up one garden tip. Contest details and links to the winner's social media are below. And we decided to put a few blooper in at the end. Have fun and send us a video! TracEy Monster's YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TraceyMonster Retro Flowers YT Channel:https://www.youtube.com/user/dezarae1984 House of Hurleys Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/houseofhurleys/ To join our contest follow both Kim and I on Instagram Gary at The Rusted Garden: https://www.in...