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The long, hot days of summer are starting to come to an end, and with August right around the corner, cooler weather will be here before we know it. As we head into the transition out of summer and into fall, now is the time to begin thinking about the …
Read more Best Herbs to Plant in Late Summer
Comments - 1If you’ve never had the pleasure of enjoying a hearty potato soup with leeks, you’re missing out on one of the best tasting meals that can be completely grown in your garden! This tall, tasty allium is an excellent ingredient for many fall and winter dishes – and also happens …
Read more How to Grow Leeks in Your Fall Garden
Comments - 0Growing your own fruits and vegetables is rewarding. Growing heirloom varieties is even more so. Of course, growing our own saves us money and allows us to know exactly what goes into our food and, therefore, our bodies. But what’s the fun in growing conventional varieties anyone can go buy …
Read more 5 Heirloom Vegetables to Plant in Your Fall Garden
Comments - 0Herbs and spices launched thousands of ships in the global quest to move these desirable culinary ingredients to hungry cooks worldwide. Today, herbs are relatively commonplace—easily purchases at your local supermarket. The problem, however, is most often these herbs command a high price even when they’re not organic. If you …
Read more Culinary Herbs You MUST Grow in Your Garden
Comments - 0As the long summer days begin to wind down and cooler evenings begin to show their face, home gardeners around the country should have one thought on their mind…get those fall gardens planted! Vegetables grown in the cooler fall weather have a tendency to taste even crisper and sweeter than …
Read more 5 Tips to Get Started on Your Fall Garden
Comments - 0July is often the month where gardens across the country begin to burst with colors and produce fruits and vegetables at a rate that is hard to keep up with. It’s also the month where a garden that hasn’t been receiving proper care will begin to show the effects of …
Read more 6 Tips to Keep Your Garden Healthy This Summer
Comments - 0As the home to one of the Internet’s biggest selection of vegetable seeds, we here at Eden Brothers have been around quite a few vegetable gardens. There are some years where every thing we touch with our green thumb flourishes, and there are years where the harvest would barely be …
Read more 5 Questions to Answer Before Buying Vegetable Seeds
Comments - 0You may have noticed quite a lot of momentum building behind the movement to plant more wildflowers in the last several years—and for good reason. Wildflowers are an important part of the local ecosystem within your community and play a vital role in the success of countless species of native …
Read more 4 Reasons to Go Wild for Wildflowers
Comments - 0Before the advent of modern pharmaceuticals, people cured what ailed them with a vast array of natural substances, not the least of which derived from plants. Around the world, knowledge of which plants were useful for different symptoms was passed down through the ages and cultivated for the purpose of …
Read more 6 Medicinal Plants to Grow in Your Garden
Comments - 0If you’re just getting in to gardening, you may think mulch is simply a way to make a garden bed look orderly and neat. While this is certainly a great benefit of mulching your beds, the real reasons are far greater for your plants than they are for the aesthetics …
Read more Mulch Matters: 3 Very Good Reasons to Mulch Your Beds
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