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Garden Tips
SmVegetableGarden 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
You don’t need a farm to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and fruits. You don’t really even need a garden. Plant breeders know that after taste, home gardeners want a high yield in a small space. So they’ve been developing more varieties that can grow in a small foot print or even live in containers all year long.
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Growing Spinach 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
Leafy vegetables always taste better fresh from the garden. Spinach, like lettuce, grows best in the cool weather of spring and fall. Spinach also grows extremely quickly, which means you don’t have to wait long to enjoy it, but you’ll also have to keep planting new spinach to extend the harvest. Getting spinach to grow is easy. Keeping your spinach growing takes some finesse. Tips for growing spinach in the home garden.
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Plants for Bees 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
Every garden needs pollinators and bees are among the best. Without them there would be limited flowers and even fewer fruits and vegetables. To attract bees and other pollinators to your gardens you need to select flowers and plants that are high in nectar and pollen and plant so that they are obvious and available to the insects. Here are some tips for luring bees to your garden and lists of good plant choices for bees.
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Growing Onions 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
Growing onions takes patience, since all the action takes place under ground. If you can provide a rich soil and a full day of sun, you can grow a good sized harvest of onions for eating fresh and storing for later. And as with most fresh vegetables, onions from the garden will have far more flavor than onions from the produce aisle. Home grown onions can be more pungent too. Here are some tips for choosing and growing the right onions for your home garden.
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A – Z Guide to Plant Information 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
An alphbetized listing of plants with info on selecting, growing and using plants in garden design. Includes: flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs and more
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Preserving Vegetables 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
How to preserve fruits and vegetables by drying, canning, pickling and making jams and jellies. Keep the freshness of the harvest by preserving your own garden vegetables at home. There’s a method safe and easy enough for everyone, as well as tips for success and recipe suggestions.
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Harvesting Vegetables 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
There are no precise guidelines as to when to harvest your vegetables, but there are some rules of thumb to guide you. Most vegetables are harvested just before full maturity, for maximum flavor and the most pleasant texture. The following are vegetable harvesting criteria for judging whether your vegetables are ready for picking.
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Container Vegetable Gardens 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
You don’t need a plot of land to grow fresh vegetables. Vegetable container gardening can offer high yields in small spaces. With some thought to selecting bush or dwarf varieties, almost any vegetable can be adapted to growing in a container or pot. Container vegetable gardening is perfect for plants that take up little space, such as carrots, radishes and lettuce, or crops that bear fruits over a long period of time, such as tomatoes and peppers.
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Growing Green Beans 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
Often called green beans or string beans, the common garden bean can be both stringless and colors other than green. But it’s the green bean that everyone recognizes as one of the most frequently prepared vegetables. Hot, cold, even raw, string beans are versatile in the kitchen and very prolific producers in the garden. They are also easy to grow. Here are some tips.
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Peas Please 29 Jul 2010, 3:33 am
Peas are one of those vegetables that must be tasted fresh from the garden to truly be appreciated. Whether they are shelling, snap, snow or sugar pod peas, their moment of glory is rather brief in the garden. Learn how to make the most of the peas you grow.
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Stellaaaahhhh 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
growing daylilies, great repeat flowering daylilies, how to grow a daylily
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Nigella 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Nigella earns its common name of Love-in-a-Mist with a tangle of ferny, fennel like foliage that form a mist around the flowers. I’m not sure why anyone would call Nigella Devil in the Bush. Nigella flowers start off as interesting puffs, open into rich toned, straw-flower like blossoms and change into equally attractive seed pods. Here are some tips for growing Nigella in your garden.
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Garden Budget 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have a great garden, but it sure is easy to get carried away. If you’re not a budgeter in any other aspect of your life, you are not going to change your habit in the garden. But to prevent sticker shock from arriving halfway through creating your garden, let’s look at an overview for you to price out and determine what you can reasonably expect to spend.
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Rudbeckia 'Irish Eyes' 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Black-eyed Susans: Rudbeckia ‘Irish Eyes’
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Giant Vegetables 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Many gardeners enjoy the competition of growing giant vegetables and flowers, like 100 pound cabbages and pumpkins that gain 25 pounds in a day. Growing giant vegetables take planning and care. Here are 5 easy steps toward success in growing giant vegetables and flowers.
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August in the Garden 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
If you’re a gardener who thinks that the month of August begins the downhill slide into off season of gardening, think again. Your garden is hardier than you think and there are plenty of gardening tasks for August that will keep your flower and vegetable gardens going longer, as well as opportunities to get a head start on next year’s garden plans.
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Basic Considerations When Choosing Plants for a Formal Herb Garden 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Designing an Herb Garden
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Small Garden Containers 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Gardening in containers offers unlimited opportunites to experiment. Container gardens are a perfect match for small space gardenings. You can use the container gardens as the entire garden or make clever focal points. Gardening in containers allows you to control the growing conditions and experiment with different plants at the same time.
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Weed ID Quiz 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Know what weeds are in your garden can help you keep weeds out of your garden. This weed id quiz will help you learn to identify weeds and pinpoint how to deal with them.
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Ornamental Cabbage 29 Jul 2010, 3:04 am
Ornamental cabbage and flowering kale are in the same species, Brassica oleracea, as edible cabbages and kale. Although they are still edible, they aren’t as tasty and tender as their cousins. But they’re as easy to grow, as shown here.
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