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When most think of a garden, they think of finely manicured soil with neat rows of beautiful plants surrounded by a picturesque fence. Anyone who has gardened knows this type of garden requires a lot of herbicide or work and is not that easy to maintain for someone who has …
Read more 4 Reasons To Build Raised Garden Beds
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Some people grow plants purely for their aesthetic properties, opting for the most beautiful, interesting or complementary varieties to make their garden pop. Some, on the other hand, like to ensure that what they are growing is both beautiful and potentially useful. Sometimes that utility is unknown until someone happens …
Read more 5 Flowering Plants With Surprising Uses
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Let’s face it, sometimes our efforts to create balance and avoid a hoard of hungry pests from destroying our plants and compromising all of our hard work simply doesn’t work out as planned. In this case, you might consider calling in the big guns with chemical pesticides to eradicate the …
Read more 5 Natural Methods of Pest Control
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As gardeners of all skill levels tend to their flowers, plants, shrubs, and other foliage, it’s all too easy to overlook a leaf here or there that is discolored and write it off as an area to prune. Maybe it’s from bugs, or maybe it’s from lack of water. However, …
Read more 4 Common Plant Diseases and How to Spot Them
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Congratulations, you made it through another year of gardening! We hope you enjoyed beautiful blooms, bountiful harvests, and the satisfaction that you created something beautiful at your home. As the growing season comes to a close, one area of your garden that you can still work on is your tools. …
Read more Offseason Garden Tool Audit: How to Choose the Right Tools for Your Garden
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If you aren’t familiar with Charles Dowding, it’s time to get acquainted. He’s a soft-spoken British market gardener and author whose YouTube videos are chock full of growing methods that help him increase yields, save space or make his garden easier to manage. His long, informative videos take you through …
Read more 5 Awesome Growing Tips from Market Gardener Charles Dowding
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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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