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Garden Tips
SmVegetableGarden 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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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Preserving Vegetables 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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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Plants for Bees 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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 Green Beans 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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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Growing Onions 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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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Harvesting Vegetables 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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 Spinach 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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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A – Z Guide to Plant Information 5 Sep 2010, 3:31 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 Leaves 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Kids have been pressing leaves between sheets of waxed paper for years. It’s an easy way to preserve the beauty of fall foliage and to get kids interested in the outdoors. Here’s how to press fall leaves with waxed paper.
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#12 – Nothing Beats the Softness of a Pale Pink Lily 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Pink Oriental Lily ‘Maywood’
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Growing Lettuce in Summer 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Summer is thought of as a cool season crop, bolting with the first hint of heat. There are a few tricks to prolong the lettuce harvest throughout the summer season.
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Planning a Great Fall Garden 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Fall gardening may be the best of all worlds. There’s no spring rush to get things planted and pruned, the weather is pleasant enough to spend the day outside. Even the bugs are less of a pest. To insure that you have a great fall garden, you need to get the fall bloomers in the ground a few months earlier. Include at least a few fall blooming perennials in your garden bed, some shrubs with fall interest and don’t overlook ornamental grasses, which often peak for the fall garden.
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Fall Decorations 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Using flowers from the garden to decorate is a fast and easy routine during the summer. Fall lends itself to more sumptuous decorating. The richer colors, dried seed pods and grasses and ample harvest provide supplies for some wonderful centerpieces, swags, and crafts. Here are some ideas for fall decorating from the garden. Use them as is or let them feed your imagination.
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Garden Books 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Next to actually working in their gardens, gardeners love to read and learn more about gardening. There are dozens of new gardening books each year. The following garden book reviews can help you find some of interest to you and your gardening needs.
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Garden Design Review 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Fall is a great time to take stock of what worked in your garden and what was less than successful. A garden is a work in progress that should get better every year. The following 10 questions will help you evaluate your garden and garden design, so that you can plan for the garden you envision. Good garden design can be as easy as recognizing what made you smile and what made your knees hurt. This year’s garden is full of hints to make next year’s garden even better.
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Compost 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
What is compost and why is adding organic matter important to the soil in my garden?
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Fertilizer for Seedlings 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Plant seedling can fed themselves up until their first true leaves appear. Then you have to make some choices about how, when and how much to feed your seedlings.
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Flower and Garden Shows 5 Sep 2010, 3:04 am
Just when we need it most, horticultural societies across the country provide us with a breath of spring in the form of flower and garden shows. Whichever you attend, you can expect garden landscape displays, competitions, a vendor area, seminars by garden experts and floral displays. Here is a listing of some of the most popular spring flower and garden shows.
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