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Feature E-book Getting to know Mint Wouldn't you like to use all that mint growing all over your yard?  This e-book will show you how!  All you ever need to know about mint including varieties, growing it, recipes, preserving and much more! Contents:   Description and Varieties  Growing Mint Mint Problems Caring for Mint Using Mint: Culinary Uses (includes 17 recipes), Medicinal Uses, Garden and Household uses Harvesting and Preserving Mint.   Immediate Download available through Paypal payment only    $5.00  Please read carefully: When your Paypal payment is complete, the e-book will load into your browser; please be patient as it may take a while to load.

Feature Tip Potatoes prefer sandy, loose soil. The loose soil allows the tubers to grow larger and to develop a nice, smooth shape (instead of ending up knobby and bumpy). To grow potatoes in a five-gallon bucket, use a half and half mixture of sand and potting soil and fill the bucket to the top. Plant one seed potato in each bucket to ensure that the tubers have adequate room to develop. Make sure that there's one "eye" per section of seed potato when you cut up your seed. Depending upon the seed potatoes, one potato could plant two, three or four buckets. Allow the sections of seed potato to dry overnight before planting them. This will help the potatoes to sprout rather than just rotting in the ground. Plant the potatoes about three or four inches deep (three or four inches from the top of the soil to the top of potato). Make sure that the eye of the potato is pointed upward. If the eye is pointing down, the potato will still grow but it will take it much longer to sprout (it will start growing down toward the bottom of the bucket and then will have to figure out that it needs to switch directions). If you live in an urban area, you probably won't have problems with potato bugs. If you live in a small town or rural area where potatoes are grown commercially somewhere within a few miles, you might have problems. I live in Wisconsin and gave up growing potatoes several years ago. Potato bugs from commercial potato fields a few miles away migrated to my garden and destroyed my potatoes. I would rather not treat my potatoes with pesticide because that was the point of growing potatoes in the first place — to have potatoes that had not been treated with chemicals. Good luck and best wishes with growing potatoes. LeAnn R. Ralph http://ruralroute2.com  This tip is just one of the many fun tips included in our Gardening Tip Sheet back issues Share your gardening tip; e-mail editor

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