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Jump Starting the Season: Getting the most from a cold frame
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Cold Frame for March Days
One accessory for the garden which can be invaluable is the cold frame.
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A Bumper Crop
The use of a small propagator has produced a bumper crop of South African bulb seedlings
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Finding Hidden Treasures
One man's junk is another man's treasure.
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Wintering Plants in Pots - Part 2
Cold frames of some sort are an indispensable part of gardening once you get into propagation of any kind. This week, I'll tell you about some of the kinds of frames I've used to protect my hardy potted plants over the winter.
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Winter Garden Ideas
Get a head start on your early spring vegetable garden or grow vegetables all year long, even in the Midwest, with these tips and tricks.
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Raised Bed Gardening II
In Raised Bed Gardening Part II, I explain how to easily create a raised garden bed, a raised garden bed frame, and a cold frame. Raised bed gardening can be easy!
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Extend the Growing Season
Learn how to extend the growing season using a patio grow house. The growing season can be extended by 3-4 weeks in the spring and fall using this handy gardening tool.
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Garden Harvest All Year Round
In just about any climate, grow and/or harvest fresh garden produce - without adding artificial heat.
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Winter in the Vegetable Garden
Winter in the organic vegetable garden is a time of reflection and rest, but you can also engage in limited planting and extensive planning.
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You Can Harvest Your Garden All Year Round
The power of the winter sun can extend your harvest year-round in most locations.
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Ashes in the Organic Garden
Ashes are a source of nutrients and a natural pest repellent in the organic garden.
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Early Season Vegetable Gardening
January is a good time to prep your vegetable garden, plant cool season crops and get your seed starting supplies ready for the upcoming season.
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It's Easy to Propagate with Hardwood Cuttings
The cold months are perfect for taking hardwood cuttings from shrubs and trees to create more plants for your garden or yard.
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How to Cold Stratify Chill Seeds
Many perennial flower seeds (tree and shrub seeds, too) need to be chilled or cold stratified to germinate. Step by step instructions using refrigerator to stratify.
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Recycle Seed Starting Containers
Tips on finding and planting cheap or free, recycled or improvised seed starting containers from seed pan to individual plant pot to waterproof tray. Garden green!
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Ready for Spring
If you've got a case of late winter gardener's and forager's blues, here are some projects and harvests to cure what ails you.
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A Stroll in the Cold
Notes on a brisk winters' day in Colonial Williamsburg.
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Christmas for Every Vegetable Gardener
Christmas gifts for the vegetable and orchard keeper which are sure to please. Find something for every gardener with this list of gifts.
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Groundsel Shrub
Add the vigorous native fall flowering groundsel shrub to your natural habitat garden in southeastern coastal or piedmont regions.
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How to Grow a Large Pumpkin
With a little planning, some care and patience, anyone can grow a very large pumpkin.
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Plant Successively For Fall
There's still time to plant those cool weather crops for fall.
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The New Terrarium by Tovah Martin Reviewed
This review is about a new how-to book for indoor gardeners. The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature is by garden writer, Tovah Martin.
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Thinking Beyond the Spring Garden
Sowing seeds a few weeks apart throughout the growing season keeps fresh produce on the family table well into autumn.
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APRIL SHOWERS
Gardening in a mild wet and windy climate in the west of Ireland.
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Growing From Seed
Most real seedaholics have pretty much finished sowing perennial and woody plant seeds until late summer begins the process again. However, I'm always off sinc. I tend to do things when I have the time, not when I'm "supposed" to. As seed is on my mind, I thought some of you may be wondering how to go about growing plants this way. It's a great way to have large numbers of the same plant for making swathes and drifts or sharing with friends. It's also about the only way you can actually get your hands on some plants; those that are rare or slow and are not to be found in nursery catalogs
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How to Grow Cauliflower
Cauliflower can be a tricky vegetable to grow in the home garden. Following are a few tips for successful planting and harvesting of cauliflower.
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Not too late for fall vegetables
Make some room in the garden for your autumn vegetables. These varieties will provide bounty well into the winter!
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Slugs and Snails in the Garden
Dealing with the slugs and the snails
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Starting with Seeds: Pansy
Starting pansies from seeds is an excellent choice in January. Beginners will enjoy the lower temperature requirements, and the plants are usually moved outdoors, away from the indoors growing area making room for the fast growing summer annuals. Pansies make beautiful additions to the home landscape. Some have blotches ("faces") and they come in many different colors. Since they will withstand mild frost they are excellent companions to spring flowering bulbs. Contrary to common belief pansies are fairly easy to grow from seed, even for inexperienced growers. Lean the truths and myths about these early spring jewels.
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Top 40 Garden Terms
Understanding what all those how-to books are talking about makes gardening easier for the novice. Below, often heard garden terms are explained for the new gardener.
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Garden Plans
Making the right choices for your garden in the spring can help simplify maintenance later on and ensure a bountiful, carefree garden season.
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Greening Up Your Autumn
A collection of online resources to help with back-to-school and other fall activities.
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How to Prepare the Vegetable Garden for Spring
The vegetable garden may not be producing this late in the year but the work is not over. Preparing for spring gardening begins in late fall.
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Recipe: Sauted Winter Greens
Kale and chard are hardy winter greens that can be sauted quickly and easily for a tasty side dish rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, potassium and dietary fiber.
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Recipe: Spinach Mushroom Quiche
Whether in the dead of winter or in the warmth of midsummer, this quiche and its variations will delight family and friends.
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Selecting, Growing, and Using Lavender
With its luscious fragrance and many uses, lavender is beloved by all. But the different varieties can be confusing. Here is a guide to set you straight.
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A Basic Vegetable Garden
How to plant a vegetable garden for food survival. Simple survival tip and information on global seed banks, Norwegian seed bank and Millennium Seed Bank.
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A SURPRISE EVERY DAY
Inspecting the flowers on the new crop of seedlings

Big Tooth Maple
Big-tooth maple has beautiful green foliage that provides brilliant fall colors,
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Blue Treasures for Rock Gardens
There is good news for lovers of rock gardens and blue flowers: an abundance of choices awaits. Among these are Asia bell and corydalis.
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Don't Rush The Season
Season extenders can protect tender seedlings.

EARLY SPRING FLOWERS
Early spring flowers in the garden.

Garden Jobs for February
February is the month for pruning vines, planting bare root trees, and starting seedlings. Work this month sets the stage for a glorious garden this spring and summer.
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Get Your Garden Started Right: Three Invaluable References
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Heirloom Lettuces of Note
Grow fresh, crisp, colorful lettuce in containers, greenhouses and open vegetable patches
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Ho-Ho...O! Organic Gardening Gifts and Tips for the Holiday Season
A concise gift guide for the organic gardener on your holiday shopping list.
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How to Propagate Dahlias
Divide tubers and root cuttings to increase dahlia plants and provide masses of cut flowers from late summer through to the first frost.
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Hybridizing Daffodils Part #2
Hybridization of daffodils not only requires the patience to wait for several years for results, it also requires the knowledge of cultivation, and selection of the seedlings with potential for further study and evaluation.
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Jajik
Cucumbers have been Cultivated in the Middle East for Thousands of Years. Here is a Simple Recipe for a Cold Cucumber and Yogurt Soup.
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