Herbal Sugars: Something Sweet from the Garden

Its not tomato bragging season, but we still want to show off our gardens around the holidays. How to Make Herbal Sugars is one craft in a series of...

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Gardening Question of the Week: Why are the Tips of My Houseplants Turning Brown?

One of the most common questions I get this time of year is Why are the tips of my houseplants turning brown?. Browning leaves is a good indication that...

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Gardening Basics

Starting a garden should be a pleasure. But it does help to have a little knowledge of how to go about making a garden. Here's a quic selection of articles to give you confidence in creating your won garden.

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Xeriscape Gardening

Xeriscaping doesnt mean deserts and cactus or even a drought plagued, barren landscape. Xeriscaping is a method of gardening that involves choosing plants that are appropriate to their site and creating a landscape that can be maintained with little supplemental watering. Here are the seven steps of xeriscaping, common sense guides to gardening in harmony with your site that can be applied to any type of garden design.

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Prechilling Bulbs

Many spring flowering bulbs can be forced into bloom during the winter, but most will need a period of cold temperatures to stimulate growth and flower production. This period of precooling varies with the type of bulb, as shown on the Prechilling Chart.

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Loppers - Pruning Tools

Loppers are a step up from hand pruners. Loppers are basically hand pruners with long handles. While the longer handles will give you added reach to prune higher branches, that's not their true advantage. The handles on loppers give you leverage, so you can pruner can handle larger branches; up to 2" in diameter, depending on the lopper. Here's what to look for when shopping for a lopper and some notable products.

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Ways to Make Gardening Easier

Gardening easier means you can garden more. Use these smart gardening tips to make your gardening chores and maintenance less time and labor consuming and make your time in the garden more enjoyable.

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Garden Budget

You dont have to spend a lot of money to have a great garden, but it sure is easy to get carried away. If youre not a budgeter in any other aspect of your life, you are not going to change your habit in the garden. But to prevent sticker shock from arriving halfway through creating your garden, lets look at an overview for you to price out and determine what you can reasonably expect to spend.

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New Year's Resolution

The American Phytopathological Societys tips for how to have a healthy garden. Who better to give us advice on how to keep plants healthy than the folks who study plant diseases for a living?

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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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Don't Get Caught with Your Plants Down!

Now heres a New Years resolution we can actually stick to. The Plant Doctors at The American Phytopathological Society, (plant disease people), have thoughtfully outlined the steps to having...

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Winter Garden Photo

Winter Garden Photo

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Determinate Tomatoes

Determinate tomato varieties tend to reach a fixed height and ripen all their fruit in a short period of time.

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Dividing Bearded Iris

When re-planting bearded iris rhizomes, create a hole with a soil level mound in the center, as shown.

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SmVegetableGarden

You dont need a farm to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits. You dont really even need a garden. Plant breeders know that after taste, home gardeners want a high yield in a small space. So theyve been developing more varieties that can grow in a small foot print or even live in containers all year long.

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Herbal Sugars

Herbal sugars can be made easily and used to flavor things like baked goods and drinks. Just as herbal butters, oils and vinegars infuse your cooking with flavors from the herb garden, herb infused sugars will make your fresh herbs go even farther.

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Front Yard Gardens

Small Space Gardening - Front Yard Gardens

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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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Small Space Gardening

Small Space Gardening - Framing a Window

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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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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. Here's a list of annual flowers that will self-seed in your garden.

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Flower and Garden Shows

The choice of spring flower and garden shows continues. Whichever you attend, you can expect garden landscape displays, competitions, a vendor area, seminars by garden experts and floral displays.

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Containers in Small Gardens

Small Space Gardening - Containers

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Foxgloves Garden Gloves

Gardening gloves need to be durable and flexible. Too many gardeners start the day with garden gloves and end the day without because gardening requires dexterity. Foxgloves garden gloves are deceptively attractive for such a rugged product.

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Flowering Plants for Dry Areas

Its a smart idea to study up on which plants can adapt to dry areas, because sooner or later every garden will experience a period of drought. While water is crucial to growing healthy plants, there are many perennials that can withstand periodic dry spells, if they are given a chance to become established before they are severely stressed.. Here are 10 perennials that may surprise you with their drought tolerant constitutions.

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Winter Bloomers - Hellebores

The Christmas Rose, Hellebore niger, has the frustrating tendency of not blooming until Easter - making it all the more confusing to tell it apart from the Lenten Rose, Hellebore orientalis. Hellebore flowers are often the first signs of spring in the garden and the plants are becoming more widely available and easier to grow.

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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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Plants for a Small Garden

Every plant looks tempting in the nursery center or catalog. How do you know what will do well in your garden? There are some guidelines for what to consider when shopping for plants for your garden. While there are times to indulge yourself with whatever plant catches your fancy, when designing a small garden, every plant matters. Choose wisely.

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Garden Soil

Soil is often viewed as the boring part of gardening. While garden soil will never be glamourous or even as interesting as choosing plants, there is a whole world under our Wellingtons that literally and figuratively is the foundation for our gardens. New gardeners are cautioned to put money and effort into improving their soil before they even consider planting, but few appreciate this wisdom. Here's why you should.

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Making Herbal OIls

Flavored oils are wonderful to cook with, easy to make and they are always welcome as gifts. Use fresh herbs from your garden to create flavored herbal oils.

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Asparagus Feature

Asparagus is one of the few perennial vegetable crops for the home garden. Plant it once and it keeps on gorwing. There is some up front work to be done, before you can enjoy the harvest, but a well-established asparagus bed can produce for decades. Heres how to grow great asparagus.

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Evergreens for Every Garden

Except for those of you who are currently busy putting in your cool season flowers and vegetables, the verdict is split on whether there are 4 seasons of interest in...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope you all had a wonderful, bountiful harvest and are able to enjoy your harvest festival, whenever it may be, with family and friends.Photo: Marie Iannotti (2007) licensed...

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Dealing with Wildlife

As gardeners, we don't always concern ourselves with wildlife any more than wildlife treat our gardens with the respect. But most of us try to find a way to live cooperatively with the wilds around us. We like to bend nature to our tastes, but we try to do so with respect. The Humane Society of the United States wants to put Earth Day into year round practice with these 10 ways to appreciate the beauty and bounty of nature in our own backyards.

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Dealing with Rose Diseases

Despite a gardeners best efforts, roses can often become infected with fungus diseases. Luckily, few fungus problems will kill your rose bush and most can be handled with low toxicity and minimal effort. Here are the top four rose diseases and how to handle them.

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Growing Great Pumpkins

Growing pumpkins may seem as American as apple pie, but they have been grown around the world for centuries. Although orange is the commonly know color, pumpkins come in white, red, pink and blue and can be smooth, bumpy, oval, flattened or round. All pumpkins grow easily from seed and transplants. Here are some great varieties to try and some tips to grow pumpkins in what ever space your home garden can provide.

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Tomato Blossom Drop

Blossom drop is a common tomato growing problem that can be extremely frustrating to the home gardener. Otherwise healthy looking tomato plants set flower blossoms, only to have them dry up and fall off the plant before a fruit is formed. Blossom drop can be attributed to several causes, most often related to either temperature and / or stress.

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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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Melon F1 'Summer Dream'

Melon F1 'Summer Dream'

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Winterberry Holly: A Native Holly with a Breathtaking Berry Display

Gardeners know there is always something to look at in the garden; theres just less to see in certain seasons. One stunner for winter interest is Winterberry or Winterberry...

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Garden Soil

Organic matter does so many wonderful things for a garden, its just silly not to take advantage of it. Good soil means less work for the gardener. The soil will feed your plants and help them ward off diseases and insect pests. What does organic matter mean and how can you get some? Read on...

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Pruners

What to look for when choosing a pair of garden pruners. Garden pruner styles, sizes, replacement parts and comfort are the keys.

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Gardening Websites

Gardening online is one of the best tools a gardener has. Here is a list of 10 information packed garden diagnostic web sites to answer all your gardening questions.

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Herb Blends

If youve saved and dried your herb garden bounty, consider giving some away as gifts. After all, not every cook has access to an herb garden. You can either package up individual herbs in lovely canisters, jars or bags or mix your herbs for a custom blend that will have your chef friends naming recipes after you.

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Shade Garden Perennials

Shade gardens can be woodland retreats or bursts of color. Many shade garden plants often considered sun lovers actually prefer some shade in hot areas or the peak of summer. Of the many plants that will grow well or even thrive in shade gardens, the following list are top shade garden performers.

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Garden Books

Next to actualy working in their gardens, gardeners love to read and learn more about gardening. There are dozens of new gardening books each year. The following garden book reviews can help you find some of interest to you and your gardening needs.

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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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Make Herb Flavored Vinegars

Herbal vinegars are one of the simplest concoctions to whip up and yet they lend a complex undertone to so many delicious dishes. Dont confine your vinegar use to just salad dressing. Herbal vinegars will dress up spreads, like mayonnaise, sauces and all types of appetizers.

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Gardening Gifts for Kids

Kids love to garden and play in the dirt. There are so many wonderful gardening kits and child-sized garden tools that they feel right at home in the garden with Mom and Dad. Here are 10 gardening gifts that you can enjoy along with your kids.

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Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

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Blacked String Beans

Spice up your string beans with blacked seasoning. This receipe is excellent for a side dish or as an appitizer, with a cool yougurt dip.

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Raised Bed Gardening

Raised bed gardening refers to gardening in soil that has been mounded or contained higher than the surrounding soil. Raised bed gardening is an old gardening practice, but its currently growing in popularity again because it offers several advantages to simply growing your plants in level ground. Here are some tips on why raised bed gardening should be considered and how to get started with a raised bed.

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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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Drunken Plants Add to Holiday Festivities

Paper whites, a small, pale Narcissus, are one of the easiest bulbs to force indoors. Were so used to seeing them in pots that we forget they also make wonderful...

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Growing Green Beans

Often called green beans or string beans, the common garden bean can be both stringless and colors other than green. But its the green bean that everyone recognizes as one of the most frequently prepared vegetables. Hot, cold, even raw, string beans are versatile in the kitchen and very prolific producers in the garden. They are also easy to grow. Here are some tips.

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Bring Those Beautiful Flower Pots and Garden Ornaments Indoors Seasonal Garden Decorating

An earlier poll showed that most of us haul multiple plants indoors for the winter months. It's a safe bet that we also move all our delicate flower pots...

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Rosemary - Perfect for a Chilly Autumn Dinner.

Not many Mediterranean herbs enjoy the crispness of fall, but rosemary comes back to life as the temperature drops. Rosemary is as beautiful to look at as it is...

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Cabbage & Kale

Cabbage and kale are among the hardiest and most nutritious vegetables a home gardener can grow. They are also very easy to grow, especially for home vegetable gardeners in cooler climates. Beautiful, in shades of pale yellow to wrinkled steel blue and ranging in flavor from sweet and crisp to tangy, cabbage and kale are versatile vegetables with a long harvest season and a long storage life.

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Backyard Plants for Birds

Its getting toward that time of year when the birds will be seeking out alternative food sources and shelter. Birds can be as finicky as people when it comes...

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Garden Stocking Stuffers

Choosing gifts for gardeners is easy. There's always some garden tool or toy they've been wanting to try. Here's a list of 10 gardening gifts small enough to stuff in a stocking.

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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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Garden Tools

Garden tools can make garden maintenance less of a chore. New gardeners need to stock their garden tool shed with the essentials like, shovels, trowels and rakes

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Choosing Your Christmas Tree

Christmas Trees. Pre-cut, cut your own or live, which is better? And what do you do with it when you get it home, so that it doesn't drop needles all over the carpet?

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Growing Winter Squash

Growing Winter squash can intimidate home gardeners. They grow on large vines, take all season to mature and then what do you do with them. There are also so many of them, its hard to know whats worth growing. Acorn squash, Hubbards, spaghetti? Heres a breakdown of the most popular winter squash varieties, how to grow them and how to use them.

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Voles. Small Pests that Do Big Damage

If you've never heard of voles, I hope it's because they aren't a problem in your yard. This close cousin of the mouse can do excessive damage when you're...

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Organic gardening

What does it mean to have an organic garden? Does organic gardening mean you have to put up with insects eating your plants or unattractive flower beds? Actually, organic gardening just means trying to working with nature and to replenish as you deplete resources. Here are some basics...

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Deer Resistant Plants

If deer are in your area, sooner or later they will find your garden. Plant wisely by choosing deer resistant plants. Use the lists here to help find plants deer don't like.

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Easter Lilies

Easter Lilies are a beautiful, fragrant symbol of the Easter season. A few simple tips will keep your lily plant blooming through the season and maybe even keep it going a few season longer. It is possible to plant your Easter Lily outdoors in the garden and have it rebloom. Success isnt guaranteed, but what do you have to loose by trying. Here are some Easter Lily tips for caring for your lily plant and keeping it going.

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Scotch Moss

Sagina subulata Aurea (Scotch Moss)

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Lantana (Shrub Verbena)

Lantana (Shrub Verbena)

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Gifts for Gardeners Everyone on Your List Should Be This Easy

There is always some new gardening tool or toy that we gardeners would love to try. Even if you never noticed that your resident gardener had no fingers left...

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What Does Full Sun Mean?

Garden plants usually come labeled with required sun exposure. The definitions of these terms can vary some, but here are the generally accepted meanings of Full Sun, Partial Shade, etc..

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Thinking Green It's the Perfect Season for Kale

When most other vegetables shiver and die off, kale and other cooking greens sweeten up and tempt. Cooking greens have fallen out of favor in modern kitchens, like most...

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The Language of Flowers

Flowers have held meaning for centuries. You know a rose says love, but how about expressing yourself with violets for modesty, peonies for shame or daisies for innocence? The language and meaning of the flowers in you garden or bouquet can be as involved or as fun as you choose to make it.

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Bottlebrush

Bottlebrush - Fothergilla major

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Gardening Question of the Week: Why Didnt My Elephant Garlic Split into Cloves?

Artmake1 asked: Years ago I started planting garlic. I bought some red variety from a catalog, and I bought a single head of elephant garlic (for a buck and a...

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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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Isotoma 'Blue Star Creeper'

Isotoma fluviatilis 'Blue Star Creeper' (Laurentia)

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Winter Bloomers - Hellebores

The Christmas Rose, Hellebore niger, has the frustrating tendency of not blooming until Easter - making it all the more confusing to tell it apart from the Lenten Rose, Hellebore orientalis. Hellebore flowers are often the first signs of spring in the garden and the plants are becoming more widely available and easier to grow.

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A Winter Squash for Everyone

What would the harvest season be without winter squash? Yet how many home gardeners still grow them? Sure they look beautiful in their fall colors, on display in the produce...

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Growing Thyme

Thyme is an extremely easy growing Mediterranean herb that prefers dry, lean growing conditions. In fact, thyme almost grows itself. You can grow thyme in herb gardens, on rock walls, between pavers or even indoors. Here are some tips on growing and using great thyme.

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Echinacea

Echinacea profile. Echinacea or coneflower is an old fashioned prairie plant. Echinacea are hardy, adaptable and reliable repeat bloomers and are expecially popular with gardeners for good reason.

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Xeriscape Gardening

Xeriscaping doesnt mean deserts and cactus or even a drought plagued, barren landscape. Xeriscaping is a method of gardening that involves choosing plants that are appropriate to their site and creating a landscape that can be maintained with little supplemental watering. Here are the seven steps of xeriscaping, common sense guides to gardening in harmony with your site that can be applied to any type of garden design.

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Dividing Bearded Iris

When re-planting bearded iris rhizomes, create a hole with a soil level mound in the center, as shown.

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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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Using Cornmeal as a Fungicide

Researchers at Texs A&M have discovered that cornmeal has powerful fungicidal properties and is effective on all kinds of landscape fungus problems, from turf grass to black spot on roses. Heres how to apply cornmeal to treat fungus problems in your garden.

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Gardening Gifts for Him

Although it's easy to find gifts for gardeners, guys tend to be a bit harder to shop for. Here are 10 gardening gifts most gardeners would love to receive. There's bound to be 1 or 2 even he would like.

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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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Hosta (Plantain Lily)

Hosta

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Flower and Garden Shows

Just when we need it most, horticultural societies across the country provide us with a breath of spring in the form of flower and garden shows. Whichever you attend, you can expect garden landscape displays, competitions, a vendor area, seminars by garden experts and floral displays. Here is a listing of some of the most popular spring flower and garden shows.

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Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

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Thyme for the Holidays An Elegant Herb with Simple Tastes

Thyme is a hard herb to describe taste-wise, because it can mimic and complement so many other herbs. But theres no missing the zippy, refreshing quality it adds to...

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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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Narcissis (Daffodils)

Narcissis (Daffodils)

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Front Yard Gardens

If there is one place that small space gardening should be more widely practiced, it is in front yards. We have surrendered the front of our homes to foundation plantings of overly pruned evergreens and uninspiring dots of geraniums. It is intimidating to experiment in full view of every passer-by, but the pay off is great and I think youll find most people, neighbors included, will be delighted.

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Aquilegia (Columbine)

How to grow and care for Columbine (Aquilegia) in your garden.

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Gardening Gifts for Kids

Kids love to garden and play in the dirt. There are so many wonderful gardening kits and child-sized garden tools that they feel right at home in the garden with Mom and Dad. Here are 10 gardening gifts that you can enjoy along with your kids.

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Saving Tomato Seeds

That completes the process of saving tomato seeds. Tomato seeds take a bit of work to save, but the effort is worth it and the seeds will remain viable for several years.

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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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Staking Perennials

Many perennial flowers need to be staked or supported as they grow, to keep from flopping. Staking should be done before the plant is full grown and before it sets flower buds. Early spring plant staking will provide a more natural look and not disturb flower production or growing roots.

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Beet: Chioggia

Beet: Chioggia

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Planting Bulbs in a Lawn

Planting bulbs to naturalize in your lawn is an easy way to put on a great display of spring color. However while planting the bulbs is easy, there are a few things to consider when planning and caring for bulbs planted in a lawn.

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How Much Mulch?

Knowing how much mulch or amendment to purchase for your garden is always a bit of a guess, but you can make it an educated one by using a couple of easy measurements and calculations. Here's how to know how many bags, pounds or cubic yards of mulch will actually give you 3inches of coverage.

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What are Rose Hips?

Rose hips are the seed pods of roses. We dont often see them anymore, because we tend to prune the faded rose blossoms to encourage more flowers. However if you leave the spent flowers on the rose bush at the end of the season, you should see these small, berry-sized, reddish seed balls, left on tips of the stems. Rose hips are actually very ornamental and birds enjoy them too. They are also edible and a good source of vitamin C. Heres how to harvest and use your rose hips.

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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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Does Any of Your Garden Harvest Make it to Your Holiday Table?

Gardeners have a special appreciation for harvest festivals. Holidays, like Thanksgiving, are centered around the food being served, even though most of the vegetables on the table came from...

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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 Flower Island

Small Space Gardening - Flower Island

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Asparagus Feature

Asparagus is a sure sign that spring is here and the gardening season has begun. Asparagus,one of the few perennial vegetable crops, is a favorite garden vegetable around the world, in shades of green, white and purple. Here are some things to know for growing great asparagus in your backyard vegetable garden.

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#7 - Oriental Poppy

Papaver orientale - Oriental Poppy

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Companion Planting for Organic Landscaping

Companion planting has been a gardening technique long before most of us were even aware of the term. Just think of the classic Native American "3 Sisters" planting of...

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Winter Garden Photo

Winter Garden Photo

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4-Legged Pest Control

How to control and prevent wildlife from invading your garden. Keep deer, raccoons, armadillos, squirrels, skunks and even dogs and cats, from destroying your garden with these barriers and repellents using sound, odor, taste and blocks.

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A Toast to this Seasons HarvestPairing Wine with Vegetables

Im an unabashed vegetable lover and even on Thanksgiving, meat is just an accompaniment to my veggies. This year, instead of matching your wine to your Turkey, choose a...

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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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Brugmansia 'Inca Sun'

Mail Order Gardening Association 2006 Winners

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Harvesting a Black Walnut CropA Tough Nut to Crack

The first time I saw an unhusked black walnut I thought it was an old tennis ball. Now I notice them everywhere. Ive been getting a lot of...

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Houseplants as a Centerpiece

Using Your Houseplants as a Table Centerpiece

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Choosing Garden Ornaments

What makes a garden statue look like it belongs there and another look completely out of place? Most of us tend to purchase garden art that is just too small and so then we buy a lot of it. Of course, like all art, personal preferences should always be considered. But there are some simple guidelines for choosing garden ornaments that complement your garden and that you won't have to keep explaining over and over to your friends.

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Sweet Corn F1 'Honey Treat'

Sweet Corn F1 'Honey Treat'

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Growing Rhubarb

Is rhubarb a vegetable? A fruit? An ornamental plant? Its a very ornamental vegetable that is usually prepared and eaten much like a fruit. All that and its perennial in many areas. Rhubarb is a cool season crop that is grown for its fibrous leaf stalks, which are a wonderful sweet-tart treat. These tips should help you get your rhubarb started right and growing well.

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Pepper F1 'Carmen'

Pepper F1 'Carmen'

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Melon F1 'Summer Dream'

Melon F1 'Summer Dream'

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Plants for a Small Garden

Every plant looks tempting in the nursery center or catalog. How do you know what will do well in your garden? There are some guidelines for what to consider when shopping for plants for your garden. While there are times to indulge yourself with whatever plant catches your fancy, when designing a small garden, every plant matters. Choose wisely.

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Gaillardia, Blanket Flower

Gaillardia, Blanket Flower Photo

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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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Centerpiece with Dried Flowers

A Thanksgiving Centerpiece with Dried Hydrangea and Ornamental Corn

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Backyard Pond in Virginia

Backyard Pond in Virginia

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Small Space Gardening

Small Space Gardening - Framing a Window

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Asparagus Feature

Asparagus is one of the few perennial vegetable crops for the home garden. Plant it once and it keeps on gorwing. There is some up front work to be done, before you can enjoy the harvest, but a well-established asparagus bed can produce for decades. Heres how to grow great asparagus.

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Photo of Unidentified Rose

Photo of Unidentified Rose

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It's AlmostTurkey Time!Aren't You Glad You Grow Sage?

What would Thanksgiving turkey be without sage? Sage is one of those wonderful Mediterranean herbs that asks only for sun and warmth and then takes care of itself. ...

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What are Plant Tubers?

What do they mean by plant tubers? Are these like flowering bulbs?

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Deer Resistant Bulbs

Deer resistant, spring blooming bulbs are welcome in any garden. It is possible to find spring blooming bulbs, other than daffodils, to plant in your garden that will survive the deer and even rodents.

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Ornamental Grasses for Winter

Ornamental grasses accent a garden any time of year, but they might just be at their most imposing in the doldrums of winter. Ornamental grasses provide structure, texture and drama to the gardenscape. Here are 10 of the best ornamental grass and grass-like plants for winter interest. Several are North American natives and all of them are very easy to grow. Many even do double duty by attracting birds to your winter garden, by providing shelter and food.

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Potatoes: All Blue

Potatoes: All Blue

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Photo of Unknown Old Rose

Photo of Unknown Old French Rose

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Question of the WeekWhy is My Plant Leaking?

I haven't been able to find anything about this online, so I thought I'd ask. I brought my potted elephant ear in for the winter and the leaves are...

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Using Wood Ash in the Garden

Is wood ash good for garden soil? Will it do more harm than good? That depends on your soil and, of course, on the wood that was burned. Here are some thoughts to consider before you put wood ash on your garden plants.

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Annual Garden Plants

Annual flowers and plants only live for one growing season. But not all plants that are killed by frost at the end of the season are annuals. An annual plant must complete its life cycle in one growing season.

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Flowering Plants for Dry Areas

Its a smart idea to study up on which plants can adapt to dry areas, because sooner or later every garden will experience a period of drought. While water is crucial to growing healthy plants, there are many perennials that can withstand periodic dry spells, if they are given a chance to become established before they are severely stressed.. Here are 10 perennials that may surprise you with their drought tolerant constitutions.

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Flower and Garden Shows

The choice of spring flower and garden shows continues. Whichever you attend, you can expect garden landscape displays, competitions, a vendor area, seminars by garden experts and floral displays.

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Koreanspice Viburnum

Koreanspice Viburnum (Viburnum carlesii)

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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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Front Yard Gardens

If there is one place that small space gardening should be more widely practiced, it is in front yards. We have surrendered the front of our homes to foundation plantings of overly pruned evergreens and uninspiring dots of geraniums. It is intimidating to experiment in full view of every passer-by, but the pay off is great and I think youll find most people, neighbors included, will be delighted.

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Winter Protection for Flowering Shrubs

One of the most common springtime questions is why aren't my 'Fill In the Names' blooming. And the most common answer is that the flower buds were killed by...

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Preserving Leaves

Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps if you dry or preserve the leaves first. Luckily this is easy to do and there are 4 basic methods for pressing and preserving colorful fall leaves below.

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Rose Bushes in Pakistan

Rose Bushes in Pakistani Garden

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What is a Perennial Plant

Perennial gardening is very popular because growing plants that live more than one garden season lets your garden design evolve. But perennials don't live forever and not every perennial flower will survive your winter.

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Foxgloves Garden Gloves

Gardening gloves need to be durable and flexible. Too many gardeners start the day with garden gloves and end the day without because gardening requires dexterity. Foxgloves garden gloves are deceptively attractive for such a rugged product.

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Hemerocallis (Day Lily)

Hemerocallis (Day Lily)

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Herbal Sugars

Herbal sugars can be made easily and used to flavor things like baked goods and drinks. Just as herbal butters, oils and vinegars infuse your cooking with flavors from the herb garden, herb infused sugars will make your fresh herbs go even farther.

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Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)

Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan)

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Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

Deutzia 'Chardonnay Pearls'

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Forcing Bulbs IndoorsCreate Some Winter Cheer

Why wait for spring to enjoy spring bulbs? There's plenty of time to force some bulbs into bloom indoors. Some, like amaryllis and paperwhites, don't require much more...

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Question of the WeekWhy is My Plant Leaking?

Q: I haven't been able to find anything about this online, so I thought I'd ask. I brought my potted elephant ear in for the winter and the...

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Winter Interest in the GardenIs it Just a Gardening Hoax?

I'm feeling tidy this fall and I've been cutting back and cleaning out my garden beds to get a head start next spring. I have several grasses that look...

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Halloween Au Natural.Before You Inflate Another 10' Pumpkin, Look Around the Yard for Halloween Decorating Vignettes.

Halloween is David Beaulieus favorite time to decorate. Not so much for the spooky aspects but for the harvest theme and because Halloween is approached with such a fun-loving...

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Keep Fall's Beauty Around a Little LongerPreserving Fall Leaves

Fall foliage is a highlight of the season. Colorful leaves may be even more attractive than flowers. However to make an indoor display of fall foliage, it helps...

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November in the GardenA Regional Gardening Guide for November

November is when any similarity between gardening zones ceases to be. Some of you are just moving into your temperate, gentle garden season and others will have almost no garden...

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Growing Kale

Growing kale is an easy and very rewarding crop for the home gardener. This cooking green is as beautiful to look at as it is tasty to eat and it attracts very few pests or problems. The secret to growing great kale is cool temperatures and plenty of water. Heres how to have your best crop ever.

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Prechilling Bulbs

Many spring flowering bulbs can be forced into bloom during the winter, but most will need a period of cold temperatures to stimulate growth and flower production. This period of precooling varies with the type of bulb, as shown on the Prechilling Chart.

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Forcing Bulbs

Many spring blooming bulbs can be forced into bloom in the winter months. Some tropical bloomers,like paperwhites and amaryllis, take little effort at all.

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Root Pruning Trees

Transplanting and moving established trees can be intimidating. A process known as 'root pruning' can help ease the stress of the tree being dug and moved. Root pruning allows the tree to grown new feeder roots, before digging and transplanting elsewhere.

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SmVegetableGarden

You dont need a farm to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits. You dont really even need a garden. Plant breeders know that after taste, home gardeners want a high yield in a small space. So theyve been developing more varieties that can grow in a small foot print or even live in containers all year long.

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Ways to Make Gardening Easier

Gardening easier means you can garden more. Use these smart gardening tips to make your gardening chores and maintenance less time and labor consuming and make your time in the garden more enjoyable.

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Beet F1 'Merlin'

Beet F1 'Merlin'

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Carrot F1 'Rainbow'

Carrot F1 'Rainbow'

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Growing Winter Squash

Growing Winter squash can intimidate home gardeners. They grow on large vines, take all season to mature and then what do you do with them. There are also so many of them, its hard to know whats worth growing. Acorn squash, Hubbards, spaghetti? Heres a breakdown of the most popular winter squash varieties, how to grow them and how to use them.

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Pruning Evergreens

Evergreens such as fir, pine and spruce trees require little pruning, except to control their size or improve their fullness. Evergreen pruning should be done at the right time, while the tree has candles or new growth or the tree could end up misshapen.

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November in the Garden

A gardening calender for November? Gardening in November is a joy for those who've been waiting for cooler weather and almost non-existant for gardeners in Zones 6 on down. Even though the holidays start to demand more time indoors, there are still some garden tasks that need tending in the November garden.

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Greenhouse Kits

It's so tempting. The idea of a greenhouse means gardening year round, a warm sunny spot to garden in February. Tropical plants that survive the winter... Greenhouses are the ultimate fantasy for gardeners, but they're also a big responsibility. One night without heat and all of your plants and seedlings could be goners. Your greenhouse will need heat, water, benches, venting, electricity. And that's just for starters. Here are some greenhouse kits and their pros and cons.

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Folding Pruning Saws

For all the special garden pruning tools available, sometimes nothing beats the common old saw. The reason for buying a special garden pruning saw is that these are designed with sticky, gummy plants in mind. Your shop saw will probably just get stuck and/or bind if used to cut branches. There are convenient folding saws that tuck into your gardening bag to have ready whenever the need arises. Here are some things to look for in a folding pruning saw and some saws of note.

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Choosing a Greenhouse

Its so tempting. The idea of building a greenhouse means gardening year round. Greenhouses are the ultimate fantasy for gardeners, but theyre also a big responsibility. One night without heat and all of your plants and seedlings could be goners. Your greenhouse will need heat, water, benches, venting, electricity. And thats just for starters. Here are some key points to ponder before you buy a greenhouse.

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Brewing Compost Tea on the Cheap

“Wow, a picture of a bucket in a garage, nice blog you run Chris.”In all seriousness, this is my compost tea brewing system. It isn’t pretty, but it only cost me about $15, $5 if you discount things I already had. Compost tea is a great product. What it is is compost seeped in water [...]

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Garden Soil

Soil is often viewed as the boring part of gardening. While garden soil will never be glamourous or even as interesting as choosing plants, there is a whole world under our Wellingtons that literally and figuratively is the foundation for our gardens. New gardeners are cautioned to put money and effort into improving their soil before they even consider planting, but few appreciate this wisdom. Here's why you should.

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Finding Coleus

Coleus plants have become a must have in the garden. The colorful foliage instantly brightens a garden design and lasts all season long. Here's where to find out what coleus are available and identify your favorites.

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Spinach F1 'SPD415'

Spinach F1 'SPD415'

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