Tips and Tricks
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. …
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Comments - 0If 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
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 …
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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
Comments - 2Deer: 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
Comments - 1Many 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?
Comments - 0First, save money and order lots of glads during our Winter Advance Sale. Then after frosts, plant the glads in successive weeks for at least a month, some each week. Result: Flowers to enjoy or cut for over two months in summer. Imagine the arrangements! This is something few gardeners …
Read more How to trick your Glads into four times the bloom.
Comments - 2When you see those mouthwatering photos from Holland, ever wonder how the pros do all that? Well, there a few things they do and most of us don’t. It’s amazing how easy it is to plant bulbs like a pro. 1. Plant them close together, not spaced out! Nothing’s more …
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