Cody Sorensen
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Stories By Cody Sorensen
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How To Remove The Bottom Drain Cover From A Pool
How to Remove the Bottom Drain Cover From a Pool
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What To Do With Removed Sod
What to Do With Removed Sod. When building a walkway, patio or driveway through a grassy area, the sod first needs to be removed. Instead of wasting the removed sod, you can reuse it in a number of ways that can benefit your yard and landscaping. As long as you don't let the sod dry out completely, the root system won't die right away. Dead or alive, the soil mass can be recycled into other projects.
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How To Garden With A Black Tarp
How to Garden With a Black Tarp. A black tarp can be used in a garden to control weeds and bugs. It can also reduce moisture evaporation and benefit heat-loving plants like melons, peppers and tomatoes. Since black plastic absorbs sunlight and heats the soil, laying it down in early spring can speed the germination rate of seeds needing warm soil to grow. Produce is also cleaner when grown on black plastic. This type of garden accessory can be thrown away at the end of the harvest season.
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What Garden Vegetables Do Squirrels Like?
What Garden Vegetables Do Squirrels Like?. A squirrel with an acquired taste for garden vegetables may not be a gardener's best friend. Ground and tree squirrels living around urban and rural garden plots, tend to investigate the tasty garden morsels from time to time. On a constant search for tree nuts, which they store for winter hibernation, squirrels are always on the look out for an easy meal. Garden vegetables provide much needed, high-energy carbohydrates to keep them going.
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Why Does Cutting Dead Parts Off Of Plants Help?
Why Does Cutting Dead Parts Off of Plants Help?. Cutting dead parts off of plants has more than one beneficial purpose. It doesn't matter if it's dead flowers, dead branches, dead roots or dead leaves; if you want the health of your plant to improve, cutting them off does the trick. As a plant grows, it goes through the process of elimination. As new stems, branches, leaves and flowers emerge, old ones die off. Removing the old growth allows the plant to continue growing without lost energy.
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How To Tear Down A Block Wall
How to Tear Down a Block Wall. A block wall is built one block at a time and it can be torn down the same way. The blocks are held together with mortar. Tearing down the wall involves breaking each block loose and then toppling it to the ground. If the blocks aren't going to be used again, then you can use a sledgehammer to do the majority of the work. Block walls usually have a concrete footing that also needs to be torn up.
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How To Use Sod Lifters
How to Use Sod Lifters. A sod lifter is a tool used to remove strips of sod grass from a lawn. The cutting blade runs parallel to the ground 2 to 3 inches below the grass roots as it cuts. The handle of the sod lifter is pushed up and down and from side to side as it detaches the piece of sod. The heel of a work boot is used to kick the blade of the sod lifter into uncut soil. The cut sod is then rolled up and removed. Strips 12 to 18 inches wide and up to 4 feet in length are designated with cuts using a straight-edge shovel.
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