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Step 16: Double-guard your garden.
For smaller thieves, including demonic squirrels and vicious rabbits, tell your cat lounge time is over and...
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Step 15: Guard your garden.
Keep intruders like good-for-nothing fruit robbers and sneaky hungry people at bay by placing your very...
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Step 14: Look cute while watering.
Let your wife water the plants and make sure she looks cute doing it.
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Step 13: Add mulch.
We sprinkled tree bark around the plant stems to keep the soil from eroding and help keep in moisture.
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Step 12: Pat down soil.
Pat the soil so it's packed down. I packed it by stepping on the outter soil and doing a Native American...
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Step 11: Repeat.
Tomato plants get big so you should only put two plants to a hay-baled section. Of course, you can have as...
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Step 10: Transfer your plants.
Dig a hole in the new soil to put your plant in. Carefully lift your plant out of its pot and put it and...
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Step 9: Tell your pets their no good.
They claim the desert heat is hot and that's why their lolling in the shade. Tell them you're not fooled...
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Step 8: Give your wife something to do.
She's bored by this point but frowns when you try and hand her the shovel. Give her the camera and let her...
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Step 7: Take another break.
If you're over 35, put down the shovel and the camera and take another break. Especially if it's 80 degrees...
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Step 6: Let your wife take the credit.
Take a picture of her that says "Look what I did!" and concede that she's undeniably adorable.
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Step 5: Mix in soil.
Put on your compassion pants and give your wife a beer while you take over. If she's pregnant, an ice tea...
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Step 4: Loosen the dirt.
Pull up the weeds and then hand your wife the shovel so she can loosen up that rock-hard dirt. While she's...
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Step 3: Get your wife to help.
Even if she's pregnant, she can still do a little hard labor, right? She may try and get out of it by...
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Step 2: Bring in the hay bales.
An excellent natural gardening technique is using haybales to section off the areas. We bought ours from...
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Step 1: Pick your spot.
If you've got an overgrown backyard in the desert like us, chances are you've got plenty of room for tomatoes.
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