Tag Archive | "Garden"

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Save Seeds Now For Next Year’s Garden Flowers

If you love the flowers in your garden but don’t love the idea of spending money on new ones, why not save their seeds to plant next year?

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Garden Sitters Save The Day During Summer

The season has come when many home gardeners, their numbers booming since the pandemic began, are being rewarded with fully matured, ready-to-pick vegetables and flowers. It’s also vacation season, and this summer travel is back.

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Weeds Aren’t All Bad, But Do Need To Be Controlled

Eons ago, the first humans learned to drop seeds into the ground to grow plants for food, for beauty and for fiber. We’ve come a long way developing what plants we grow and how we grow them. And throughout all this time, weeds have tagged along.

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Gardening Success Means Avoiding These Common Mistakes

Much of gardening is learned by trial and error, for many, mostly error. lanting a shade-lover in full sun isn’t likely to breed success, nor is letting your emotions run rampant at the nursery.

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A Tomato Lover’s 7 Tips For Growing Them Big

Tomatoes are not only my favorite backyard crop, they’re also the most popular among American home gardeners.

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8 Nostalgic Garden Flowers Worth Revisiting For Charm, Aroma

In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, Our Town, heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes, then common, are, indeed, wonderfully fragranced. Yet somehow, they’ve fallen out of favor in American gardens.

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