Over Winter Plants in Pots

If you still have plants sitting around in their pots or divisions you haven't found the perfect spot for and the season is getting late, you can still over winter them safely.

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Backyard Giants

Growing pumpkins is a delight for children of all ages and really brings the joy of the harvest season home. Growing giant pumpkins is for the serious pumpkin enthusiast and Backyard Giants follows the giant pumpkin growing season from seed to weigh-in. Think you have what it takes to grow the largest pumpkin ever? Giant Pumpkins is full of pumpkin growing thrills and wisdom.

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Roses underplanted with Nepeta

Garden design is really all about combining plants in different ways. Here, one plant in the garden is used in 3 different ways.

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Bypass Pruners

Bypass garden pruners make an easy, clean cut. A professional quality pruner will make pruning easier and cuts cleaner.

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Dividing Bearded Iris

Be careful not to bury the rhizome with more than and inch or 2 of soil, as shown. Remember, it will probably settle a bit lower and bearded iris will rot and certainly won't bloom, if buried too deeply.

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Gardening Quiz: Latin Plant Names are Greek to Me.

Gardening quiz. Have some fun understanding the meaning of Latin plant names.

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Growing Phormium

Phormium is a spiky, sword-leafed evergreen perennial that is used as a garden focal point or specimen plant. Some are small enough to use in containers, others can reach several feet in diameter and 7+ feet tall. Phormium arent hardy in many areas, but can be brought indoors for the winter. Growing Phormium is easy, if you give the plants what they want.

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Bring Outdoor Accessories In

Cold weather used to mean moving all your delicate flower pots and garden ornaments into the garage for safe keeping. Why just store your garden accessories and have them take up space when you could put them to good use indoors. Here are some creative ideas for using garden items indoors during the winter.

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Wheelbarrows and Garden Carts

Wheelbarrows and garden carts are absolutely indispensable garden tools. Without a wheelbarrow or garden cart many gardening chores would not be possible. While wheelbarrows and garden carts perform basically the same functions, they each have their pros and cons. Look through the following considerations, check off the features that appeal to you and make a decision of what would work best for you, in your garden.

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Coreopsis, Tickseed

Coreopsis Grandiflora Photo

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Lighting for Houseplants

Determining how much light an indoor plant needs is about as vague as determining how much water it needs. However, most houseplants dont like to be placed in the direct sun of a windowsill. Strong sunlight may actually burn their leaves.

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Small Flower Island

Small Space Gardening - Flower Island

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Growing Catmint (Nepeta)

Catmint (Nepeta) is extremely hardy, drought tolerant and virtually maintenance free. All this and nepeta repeat blooms sporadically throughout the summer. Such a wonderful garden plant should be more widely appreciated and used by gardeners. Take another look here, at the pleasure of growing nepeta and its usefulness in any garden design.

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Ceratostigma (Plumbago)

Leadwort, (Ceratostigma plumbaginoides), is a late summer bloomer with pretty blue flowers followed by red seedheads.

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Container Gardening

The following photos demonstrate the diversity of gardening in containers.

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Front Yard Gardens

Small Space Gardening - Front Yard Gardens

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Cactus & Euphorbia

Euphorbia plants are good choices for dry areas. Their foliage looks good all season and the flowers are as succulent as the leaves.

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Self-Seeding Annual Flowers

Many annual flowers offer the bonus of being self-seeders. Self-sowing annuals will weave their way though your garden, year after year, giving it a natural, cottage garden feel. There's a wide choice of annual flowers that will self-seed and it takes very little effort to get them going.

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Ajuga (Bugleweed)

Ajuga is a fast growing groundcover that can take over, if you're not careful. However, when it is in bloom in the spring, there's nothing to top it. If you have the space to let it roam, it's well worth growing.

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Deadheading Garden Flowers

Deadheading flowers is a garden maintenance task that must be done if you want to have flowers throughout the garden season. The more you deadhead your flowers, the more new flower buds will be set. Deadheading all makes your whole garden look better.

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Lantana (Shrub Verbena)

Lantana (Shrub Verbena)

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Gardening Quick Tips

Great gardeners seem to know all the little secrets for making plants happy. Luckily, gardeners love to share almost as much as they love to talk about their gardens. Here's a collection of quick gardening tips and ideas to make your garden better. Feel free to share your gardening quick tips too.

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Edible Flowers

Edible flowers aren't a new phenomonon, but garnishes of fresh flowers tend to intimidate diners. No one is really sure if the flowers are there for decoration or to be eaten. It's hard to find edible flowers to purchase, but quite easy to grow most of them in your garden. Since flowers are best when eaten soon after harvest, growing your own edible flowers makes even more sense. Here are some tips.

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Making Gifts from the Garden

Gardeners love to share their gardens and there seems no end to the gifts we can create with our bounty. Here are 12 quick and easy gifts made from the garden, like herbal jellies, potpourri, leaf imprinted candles - even flavored vodka. Even your non-gardening friends will love to share this part of your garden with you.

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Beet: Chioggia

Beet: Chioggia

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Watering Houseplants

The #1 killer of houseplants is over watering. Theres not much a gardener can really do for houseplants, so they provide TLC by watering every chance they get.

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Growing Primroses

Primroses are unusually vivid spring blooming perennial flowers. Unlike the subtle pastels associated with spring, primroses shout out in bold yellows, reds, pinks and blues, making them ideal for brightening the spring garden. Primroses look their best in mass. These easy care perennials are profiled here.

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Preventing Salt Buildup

Giving your potted plants just enough water so the soil gets wet, but no water runs through the bottom of the pot can lead to salt buildup, which can inhibit the growth of your houseplants.

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Clematis

How to Grow and Prune Clematis

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Lilium orientalis - Lily

Lily 'Casa Blanca'

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Pot Bound Houseplants

Sooner or later a healthy, growing houseplant is going to out grow its pot, causing multiple growing problems from the plants inability to hold water to the roots circling and restricting themselves.

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Compost

What is compost and why is adding organic matter important to the soil in my garden?

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Growing Nasturtiums

Nasturtiums are cool season annual flowers in rich, jewel tone colors. Nasturtiums are extremely easy to grow, practically growing themselves. There are bushy, trailing and climbing nasturtiums to fill every gardening need. They are even edible. You wont usually find seedlings of nasturtiums, but the large seeds germinate quickly and the plants bloom all season. Here are some more nasturtium growing tips.

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Marigolds

Marigolds are a formal bedding plant of garden designers. Marigolds are cheerful, compact yellow, orange and burgundy annuals with flower shapes that can resemble daisies, coreopsis and carnations.

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Small Space Garden Design

Gardening in a small space.

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New Garden

Starting your first garden shouldn't be a daunting task. Probably the best piece of advice is - Start Small. If you're frozen in your steps, wondering what to plant, where to plant it, how to not kill it..., here's a bottom line Step-by-Step primer for you. Veteran gardeners, how many times have you been asked for help from frazzled first timers. Here are some tips to pass along.

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Rose Bushes in Pakistan

Rose Bushes in Pakistani Garden

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Storing Tender Bulbs

While gardeners in zones 8 and above can grow tender bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers year round, northern gardeners will need to dig and store these plants to overwinter them. The following guidelines will help you to successfully store cannas, caladiums, dahlias, galdiolas and more.

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Koreanspice Viburnum

Koreanspice Viburnum (Viburnum carlesii)

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The Year of the Chile Pepper

Are all chile peppers created equal? The National Garden Bureau sorts of the variety of hot peppers available by grouping them by their heat and shape, as listed here.

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Plants for Fall Containers

Create stunning fall containers with unusual foliage and flowers in the shades of autumn. Many fall blooming garden plants make wonderful container plants. Move them from your overgrown garden or shop for something new. You can create wonderful unique fall container gardens using foliage and flowering plants in the colors of autumn, if you just look around and notice what catches your eye in the landscape. Here are some favorites.

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Planning a Great Fall Garden

Fall gardening may be the best of all worlds. There's no spring rush to get things planted and pruned, the weather is pleasant enough to spend the day outside. Even the bugs are less of a pest. To insure that you have a great fall garden, you need to get the fall bloomers in the ground a few months earlier. Include at least a few fall blooming perennials in your garden bed, some shrubs with fall interest and don't overlook ornamental grasses, which often peak for the fall garden.

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Forcing Paperwhites

Paperwhites (Narcissus tazetta) are popular indoor plants for winter because they're easy to grow and bloom a long time. Unlike other narcissus, paperwhites dont require a chilling period, so forcing them is as easy as putting the bulbs in water and waiting. The fragrant flowers bloom within about 2-3 weeks of planting, for almost instant gratification. It's that easy. Here are some tips for forcing paperwhites.

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Garden Maintenance

Flower gardens require constant maintenance to look their best. Common garden chores like pruning, pinching and deadheading are easy to master, as show here in this step-by-step photo tutorial.

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Raised Garden Beds

Raised beds are a good gardening technique for areas that have soil problems like poor drainage, too many rocks or plain old poor soil. Gardening in a raised bed allows you to bring in the best gardening soil. You can create raised beds simply by piling soil. However if you want something more permanent and sturdy, youll want to frame your raised beds. Here are several options for creating raised beds, from building it yourself to having it delivered to your yard.

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How To Plant Spring Bulbs

The key to growing healthy, vibrant spring flowering bulbs is to provide them with a great growing environment. Rich well-draining soil and sunshine will reward you with ample flowers for your bulb planting efforts. It doesn't hurt to know which end is up, either. Here are some more tips for growing large, colorful spring flowering bulbs.

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Preserving Vegetables

How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. Theres a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.

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Using Dwarf Evergreens

The term 'Bones of the Garden' can be difficult to understand, let alone accomplish. Garden Bones refers to using something architectural to define the structure of a garden. Most often we see it in large-scale estate or public gardens, but it is doable in more humble gardens too. One of the best tools for adding bones to your garden design is dwarf conifers. Structural, eye catching, easy to grow and diverse, dwarf conifers show a garden means business. Here are some of the best.

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Black Foliage Shrubs

Shrubs add four season stucture to a garden. They are considered the bones of a garden's design. Elderberries (Sambucus) have long been garden favorites because so many shrubs in the species Sambucus offer great foliage, fall color and wonderful berries. Sambucus Black Beauty (Sambucus nigra Gerda PP12305, Canadian BRAF) and Sambucus Black Lace (Sambucus nigra Eva ppaf) are two recent introductions that add depth and interest to any garden with their deep purple, almost black foliage.

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Container Garden Plants

Container gardens offer the advantage of changing your garden with every season. The choice of plant material is limited only by your climate and your imagination. Keep in mind the scale of the container and how aggressively the plant grows. While you want your container garden to look full, fast growers will quickly outgrow their pots.[p]The following choices should get you thinking.

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Competing Leaders

Apple Tree Pruning - Competing Leaders

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Container Garden Tips

Container gardening offers many conveniences. Good soil, easy access and the ability to correct mistakes quickly are just a few. These rules of thumb can help you successfully combine plants to create a container garden.

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Powdery Mildew

Powdery mildew is one of the most common and easily recognized plant diseases. Almost no type of plant is immune. As the name implies, powdery mildew looks like powdery splotches of white or gray, on the leaves and stems of plants. Although powdery mildew is unattractive, it is rarely fatal. However severe or repetitive infections will weaken the plant. There are several steps a gardener can take to prevent and control powdery mildew in the garden.

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The Color PurplePurple Foliage Plants for the Garden and Landscape

Foliage has taken center stage in the garden and plant breeders are making sure we have plenty of choices. Some of the best new introductions have been purple foliage...

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Pest ID Web Sites

When insect pests attack your garden plants, the first line of defense is to identify the insect. To control insects in your garden, you need to know what kind of insect you are dealing with, what plants it favors and what time of year to expect it. These web sites provide photos for identifying pests and most also give info on controlling the garden pests.

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Reading a Fertilizer Label

How to make sense of the numbers on your plant fertilizer bag and choose the right product for your plants.

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Palmate Leaves

Leaves that are distinctly lobed, like a maple leaf, are called palmate. Their shape is evocative of an open palm with the fingers outstretched.

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A Well Pruned Apple Tree

How to Prune Apple Trees

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Growing Plants from Seed

Starting plants from seed isn't rocket science, but there are several seed starting tips that will help your success rate with seed germination and give your seedlings a healthy start.

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Cleaning Houseplants

Is it really necessary to clean houseplants? A layer of dust on the leaves of your houseplants will block sunlight and reduce the plants ability to photosynthesize. A clean plant thats photosynthesizing at optimal levels will be healthier and healthy plants can resist diseases and pest infestations. So cleaning the leaves of your houseplants actually makes less work for you in the long run. Here are some quick tips for keeping your houseplants clean.

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Black Lace Elderberry

Black Lace Elderberry (Sambucus nigra 'Eva')

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Paperwhites & Alcohol

A problem when growing paperwhites is that they grow quite tall and top heavy and can fall over. Researchers in the Flowerbulb Research Program at Cornell University have come up with an unusual solution to this problem: Alcohol. When paperwhite bulbs are grown in a dilute solution of alcohol, the plants don't grow as tall as they normally would - but the flowers remain normal size and last just as long. Why they thought of giving their paperwhites a nip, I dont know.

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Plants for Clay Soil

Gardening in clay soil is a challenge that can be met. Their are many plants that will grow very well in clay soil and some that will even help improve it. Rugged natives and tough, tap rooted plants can make a garden even in the difficult conditions posed by clay. Here are some to get you started.

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Ripening Green Tomatoes

There are always green tomatoes left on the vine in the fall. Deciding whether to pick green tomatoes is a tough call. And then theres the problem of how to get green tomatoes to ripen. Here are some tips to keep your tomato plants healthy into the fall season and for getting those green tomatoes to ripen on the vine or how to salvage the obstinate green tomatoes you actually have to pick while still green.

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Gardening Around a Patio

Small Space Gardening - Gardening Around a Patio

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Hardy Perennial Hibiscus

The flower form of hibiscus is very common to the tropics, blooms typically 4-6 inches across that are brightly colored and form on shrubs. Many people in more northernly climes also grow them as patio plants.But did you know you could plant hibiscus plants with flowers twice the size in the ground in your garden [...]

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Saving Tomato Seeds

Seed saving is the only way to make sure you have seeds of your favorite plants to grow each year. Tomato seeds need special handling to ensure good germination. Here's how to begin saving tomato seeds.

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Garden Design Principles

Garden design is often broken down into design principles: Order/Balance/Proportion, Harmony or Unity and Flow, Transition or Rhythm. These categories contain the basic elements that, when combined together, constitute the generally accepted version of good garden design.

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Growing Hot Peppers

Chili peppers have the distinction of being welcome I both vegetable gardens and flower borders. While hot peppers may seem exotic, they are very easy to grow almost anywhere, even indoors. The assortment of hot peppers, whether Jalapeno, Serrano, Cayenne, Habanero or Thai, offers something for every garden and every pallette.

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Small Space Gardening

Small Space Gardening - Framing a Window

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Pruning Clematis

Clematis vines need to be pruned to encourage new growth, which results in more flowers. Pruning clematis comes down to a question of when your clematis blooms. Here are some tips.

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Overwintering Tender Plants

Outdoor plants can be brought indoors as houseplants for the winter, if you use some care in selecting the plants. Successfully overwintering plants indoors starts with the choice of plants and is dependent on the care and climate you can give the plants indoors. Here are some tips to make your favorite outdoor plants into houseplants.

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Growing Rosemary

It's not hard to grow rosemary. Rosemary is a heat loving herb, associated with the Mediterranean, but you can successfully grow rosemary plants just about anywhere, as long as you give it plenty of sun and bring it inside for the winter.

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Tomato Problems - Tomato Disea

There are many diseases that affect tomatoes. Tomato diseases are often weather dependent and can spread rapidly. Here are some common tomato diseases, their symptoms and what to do if tomato diseases threaten your home vegetable garden.

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Cool Season Annuals

Cool weather can be hard to garden in, because you never know how long it will last. But there are many annual flowers that prefer the cool days of spring and fall. Many cool season annuals look wonderful in containers and growing these flowers will make your gardening season seem that much longer. If you live in a warm climate, some of these flowers will bloom from fall through spring.

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Rose Standard

Photo of a Rose Standard

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Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

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Drying Gourds

Ornamental gourds grow as easily as zucchini. But unlike zucchini, there is no limit to what you can do with gourds. By drying ornamental gourds, you can keep them intact indefinitely. Drying gourds is an easy process, but it takes time. Heres all you need to know about how to dry gourds.

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Containers in Small Gardens

Small Space Gardening - Containers

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Growing Cannas

Cannas are tropical and subtropical flowering plants with large, banana like leaves. Cannas can be grown as annuals in cooler regions, where they add an instant touch of the tropics to flower gardens. Easy care and dramatic effect make planting cannas worthwhile for any garden border. They can even be grown in pots and

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Over Winter Mums

Mums are everywhere in the fall and they make a tempting impulse buy when in full bloom. Many gardeners do not realize mums are hardy perennials. Maybe youve purchased mums labeled hardy only to be disappointed the following spring when they didnt survive. The key to a truly hardy mum is selecting the right variety and giving it time to establish itself in your garden, before winter comes. Heres a quick tip to helping your garden mums survive the winter.

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Growing Winter Squash

Growing Winter squash can intimidate home gardeners. The vines can take over your garden and the fruits take all season to mature. Luckily there are new varieties on the market that are easier to grow and take up less space. Acorn squash, Hubbards, spaghetti? What is a winter squash ad how do you grow them?

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Photo of 'Chicago Peace' Rose

Photo of 'Chicago Peace' Rose

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