Planning Your All-season Garden
Follow me The food garden, you could say, is a gateway garden. For is there anyone who does not savor freshly pickedlettuce, or
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Flowers And Vegetables For Containers
Follow me If you’re new to gardening, growing food and flowers in containers is a great place to begin. Some can be started
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Grow Salad Greens and Herbs in Containers
Follow me Salad greens and herbs are among the easiest food plants to grow from seed in pots. In fact, it makes sense
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Spring 2022 Press Release: Regenerative Gardening
Follow me Regenerative gardening focuses on biodiversity and working with nature to create a balanced habitat of interdependent plants and animals, from the
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Essentials for Indoor Seed Starting
Follow me Even if you don’t have access to a greenhouse, you can create conditions that will allow seedlings to thrive. Tops on
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Gardening Keeps You Healthy
Follow me Thomas Jefferson famously wrote to Charles Willson Peale in 1811 at age 68, “But though an old man, I am but
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Success with Summer Squash
Follow me With summer squash there’s good news and there’s bad news. The good news is: The plants are rarely bothered by critters
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Growing Great Sweet Peppers
Follow me Yes you can grow great sweet peppers! The big blocky bell peppers you find in supermarkets need a long warm (but
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Growing Eggplants Successfully
Follow me Eggplants come in all shapes and sizes, from mammoth 3-pounders to long, slender Asian types, to baby patio varieties. Which type
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GET MORE FROM YOUR VEGGIE GARDEN THIS YEAR
Follow me When spring finally arrives, it’s always exciting to get those first seeds safely tucked into the ground. But don’t put away
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Kale!
Follow me The virtues of kale have been extolled for so long that we almost feel guilty for not eating it. And it
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Growing Vegetables in Containers
Follow me If you don’t have room for a garden, or only want to grow a few vegetables, planting in containers is the
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6 Very Beneficial Insects: To Know Them Is To Love Them!
Follow me Speaking strictly from a gardener’s perspective …There are good bugs and there are bad bugs. And the more you have of
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Want Safe Food? Grow Your Own
Follow me Between 1990 and 2009, there were 363 outbreaks of food-borne illness linked to various leafy greens, including iceberg lettuce, romaine, and
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Making a Raised Bed Garden
Follow me Soil in a raised bed can drain sooner and warm up faster in spring, enabling you to plant earlier in the
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Five Good Reasons to Grow Your Garden from Seed
Follow me You’ll Have Many More Choices Heirloom flowers such as Sweet William, Love-in-a-Mist, and Love-Lies-Bleeding offer romance, drama, and fragrance to the
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Growing Tomatoes in Containers
Follow me In a recent gardeners’ survey the tomato took first place in the homegrown vegetable popularity contest. And … no surprise …
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