Before 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
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If 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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Deer: KEEP OUT! If Bambi likes to chow down on your vegetable plants and maybe strip your rose buds before they open, here’s great news. Years ago, the second spring after I had just created a new garden with expensive rose bushes and a big vegetable patch, it happened. Deer …
Read more Gardeners’ Best-Kept Secret on How to Make Your Whole Garden Deer-Resistant
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Many of us know lettuce as the versatile leafy green used as a base for salads, a topping for sandwiches, and an occasional edible garnish. It’s mild crunch makes it the perfect companion for many dishes, and often adds a textural zing which enhances equal and opposite flavors and textures. …
Read more What Should I Plant with My Lettuce?
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News Flash: You can thank Cortez for the Beefsteak Tomato. Remember Hernando Cortez? He’s the Spanish Conquistador you learned about in fifth grade who conquered Montezuma and the massive Aztec Empire in Mexico back in the early 1500s. He and his soldiers arrived in Mexico, just a few years after …
Read more You can thank Cortez for the Beefsteak Tomato.
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Pssst: There are only two important types. And they’re totally different. Ok. OK. There are others, but only two big ones for gardeners—one tall perennial, and one short annual, both easy, easy, easy to grow! You’ll want them both. Here they are: Number One. One of the most important plants …
Read more What’s your Phlox IQ?
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I just got a great email from a gardener in North Carolina who has been planting our dahlias for several years. Here are his photos, and the new ones he’s trying this year. “Dear Linda: Each spring, I’ve found dahlias from Eden Bros. are great “fillers” in our garden—wherever I …
Read more I love your Dahlias!
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This beautiful newer member of the Oriental Lily Group brought a brand new color to the group, and what a color it is! Each petal is apricot pink, with a deep salmon-colored stripe down its center. And imagine the competition. The Oriental Group includes Stargazer, the stunning red lily that …
Read more Salmon Star – Spectacular new Oriental Lily that lives up to its name
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The numbers are in: Customers’ Top Five Favorite Vegetables I asked our Order Department for the results from all of 2017, and here are the winners. Out of the hundreds of varieties of vegetable seeds we carry, these are the top 5 winners. That means thousands and thousands of our customers are …
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The numbers are in: Customers’ Top Five Favorite Herbs I asked our Order Department for the results from all of 2017, and here are the winners. Out of all the herbs we carry, these are the big winners. And why not? They’re some of the all-time tastiest and easy to …
Read more Top Five Favorite Herbs to Plant
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