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Better Gardener: 4 Seed Starting Kits That Work For Your Garden
Midsummer can be a challenging time for my front lawn ornamental edible vegetable garden (see below). It’s hot. It’s humid. It’s buggy. Plants react in different ways to the summer season depending on...
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An Easy Way to Water
Are your summer months spent traveling and vacationing in and out of town? Weekend road trips or a week at the beach can do some damage to your garden if you’re not careful. We take a lot of weekend...
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Top 5 Secret and Natural Soil Additives For A Healthy Garden
Eleven years ago I was a “traditional gardener”, meaning I used the traditionally advertised products on the market that were filled with chemicals to treat my garden. This led to over-fertilizing and...
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Essential Garden Tools for Beginners
If you’ve ever wandered into your local garden center and been overwhelmed with the selection of tools and gadgets, you are not alone! With an abundance of options, it can be overwhelming to start your...
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3 Ways To Frost Proof Your Garden
Fall is almost upon us, so it is time to start planning for how you are going to extend those garden crops for as long as possible through the frost season (see the before picture on the right)....
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3 Knock-Your-Spring-Socks-Off Bulb Combinations
If you’re looking for first-of-the-spring blooms, you have to plant bulbs. And you have to get them in the ground this fall! I understand how overwhelming it might be to decide which bulbs to pair...
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Chasing the Winter Blues with Lively Greens!
The following is a guest blog post from Katie McCoy Dubow. The winter blues affects us all differently, but surrounding yourself with fresh, colorful plants all winter is sure to be the cure for what...
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Oh My Deer!
The following is a guest blog post from Scott Jamieson, Vice President with Bartlett Tree Experts. Deer, they are so cute—who doesn’t want to see a deer? One in the landscape can be a fantastic sight,...
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Tickled by Bunny Tail Grass
A few years ago I tilled up the entire lawn in my front yard and planted herbs, veggies, fruits and edible flowers, but I had a dilemma. How should I handle the strip that runs between the sidewalk...
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Lunaria: The Money Plant
Coin-shaped seed pods have earned Lunaria the common names of ‘money plant’ and ‘silver dollar plant.’ When I was young, one of my mother’s close friends had a garden tucked with all sorts of...
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