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How To Keep Holiday Houseplants Alive
Holiday Blooms From Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, millions of houseplants are used as gifts and decorations just to be dumped when holiday cleanup commences. That’s a nice boost to growers and...
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How to Use a Soil Blocker and DIY Soil Mix
Why I Decided to Use a Soil Blocker For years I have been putting off blocking my own soil for starting seeds. Amazing how hard it can be to actually change, even when you already believe in the...
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Hardening Off Seedlings For Planting
What is “Hardening Off”? A new gardening season is upon us and everyone is thinking about starting seeds. The process of preparing young seedlings for transplanting outdoors is the turning point for...
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How To Start A Garden From Seeds
Walk into any nursery or garden center and you will see loads of gorgeous plants. It’s hard for any plant lover to resist walking away with a cartload of those beauties, but look a little deeper and...
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How to Deal with Mexican Bean Beetles in Your Garden
What are Mexican Bean Beetles? First of all, what the heck are Mexican Bean Beetles? Most people mistakenly identify them as ladybugs. This clever critter may look like a ladybug, but it’s actually a...
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Planning for a Fall Vegetable Garden
Our summer garden in its full glory. Starting Planning for an Autumn Harvest We just picked our first bunch of tomatoes last week, but I’m already thinking our fall vegetable garden. Partly because...
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How To Get Ready For A Fall Garden
Time To Move On It’s hot, the tomatoes are just about worn out, the bean beetles have severely battered the snap beans, the summer squash is long gone. What better time to start a new garden phase?...
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Fall Planting For Spring Flowers
Autumn Planting Fall planting makes perfect sense. When you collaborate with nature, she determines the schedule. In gardening that means do the work now and wait for the result. Fall is the time...
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Dutch Oven Cooking: Blueberry Cornbread Cake Cobbler
TV Magic Debbie and I were streaming an old episode of Good Eats and got inspired. Alton Brown featured Dutch oven recipes, and I suddenly had a flashback to my Boy Scout days in the 1980’s. When I...
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How to Use a Soil Blocker and DIY Soil Mix
Why I Decided to Use a Soil Blocker For years I have been putting off blocking my own soil for starting seeds. Amazing how hard it can be to actually change, even when you already believe in the...
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The Benefits of Seed Starting in Soil Blocks
Efficiency Of Soil Blocks When I originally posted about how to use a soil blocker, I had just begun making and starting seeds in soil blocks. I had known about the process for quite some time, but...
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Hardening Off Seedlings For Planting
What is “Hardening Off”? A new gardening season is upon us and everyone is thinking about starting seeds. The process of preparing young seedlings for transplanting outdoors is the turning point for...
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How To Start A Garden From Seeds
Walk into any nursery or garden center and you will see loads of gorgeous plants. It’s hard for any plant lover to resist walking away with a cartload of those beauties, but look a little deeper and...
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How to Deal with Mexican Bean Beetles in Your Garden
What are Mexican Bean Beetles? First of all, what the heck are Mexican Bean Beetles? Most people mistakenly identify them as ladybugs. This clever critter may look like a ladybug, but it’s actually a...
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Planning for a Fall Vegetable Garden
Our summer garden in its full glory. Starting Planning for an Autumn Harvest We just picked our first bunch of tomatoes last week, but I’m already thinking our fall vegetable garden. Partly because...
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How To Get Ready For A Fall Garden
Time To Move On It’s hot, the tomatoes are just about worn out, the bean beetles have severely battered the snap beans, the summer squash is long gone. What better time to start a new garden phase?...
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Fall Planting For Spring Flowers
Autumn Planting Fall planting makes perfect sense. When you collaborate with nature, she determines the schedule. In gardening that means do the work now and wait for the result. Fall is the time...
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How to Plant Garlic in the Fall
A Fall Hope I’ve written several times proclaiming my appreciation for fall and fall gardening. Garlic is one of the reasons. I actually planted garlic for the first time once several years ago and...
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Dutch Oven Cooking: Blueberry Cornbread Cake Cobbler
TV Magic Debbie and I were streaming an old episode of Good Eats and got inspired. Alton Brown featured Dutch oven recipes, and I suddenly had a flashback to my Boy Scout days in the 1980’s. When I...
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Seed Starting Success Tips
Our Best Seed Starting Tips If you’re starting a new garden, one of the first skills you will want to develop is starting garden plants from seeds. Buying garden seeds and starting them yourself costs...
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