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Let’s organize some things we use to make other things.

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Can’t keep a plant alive to save your life? Try a cactus! Still too much commitment? Learn how to grow a fake one!

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Take everything you know — or don’t know — about gardening and put it in a bunch of neat containers all over the place!

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Lizz August 18, 2012 72 Comments
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Rachel August 6, 2012 50 Comments
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Because hell is other people.

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Rachel September 9, 2011 68 Comments
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Carolyn’s Team Pick: Altoids Tin Gardens

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