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Dream Time: The Plant Catalogs Are Here!
Plant catalogs are the stuff of dreams. Find your favorite here! Brilliant descriptions and fabulous plants beguile and bewitch us. Year in and year out, we read and dream. Connect with The Catalog of Catalogs.
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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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Garden seed starting.
Seeds that do not sprout after sowing , perhaps they start to appear and then die, the problem could be what is called damping-off disease. This is caused by a fungus .
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Garden Shopping (or Surviving The War of The Roses)
Reginald takes you on a shopping trip for your gardening needs, if he can survive the outdoors.
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Gardener's Journal: A New Software Program for Gardeners
Review of Gardener's Journal, a software program for maintaining garden records that is currently being developed.
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Gardening Seed Starting Choices
With all of the advantages from starting beautiful gardens from seed it is no wonder that more gardeners are using seeds to start plants.
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Herb Garden Planning: Seeds
Start planning your herb garden now by selecting and ordering seeds.
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Kids and Gardening
Being outside can be one of the funnest things for children. What is there to do outside? Well...this time of year is planting your garden time... so let's get out the seeds and start our garden!
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Middleton Place Garden
The 18th Century formal garden at Middleton Place
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Organic Garden Seeds of Autumn
Organic gardening opens the door for seeds to germinate wherever they fall. No herbicides will interfere. Nature provides rich rewards for the receptive garden.
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Saving Herb Seeds
Don't overlook the bounty that can be harvested from herb seeds! How to harvest and store seeds.
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Soil, In The Beginning...
Feed the soil, feed your family
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Storing Seed
A little care when storing your saved seeds will insure they are still viable when you need them, next spring.
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What's that Round Thing?
Seedpod? Yes, daffodils do have seeds occasionally.
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When to Plant Desert Garden Seeds
When you plant seeds which you will transplant outside in your garden depends upon many factors.
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Y2K and the Gardener
OK - I'd prefer to be an ostrich and just ignore this whole issue. I can't believe the world is going to crash when that clock rolls over at midnight. But just in case it does. . . we gardeners can really help!
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Annual Poppies as Landscape Focus
Seaside and sheltered landscape plantings and herb gardens present some down-to-earth examples for using annual poppies in natural appearing gardens.
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Overwintering in the Greenhouse
With proper overwintering techniques, which are made much easier with the use of a greenhouse, many plants can be preserved only to be more vigorous beautiful producers.
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Barter Is Better, part one: Round Robins
A Round Robin Exchange is a cross between a barter system and a surprise gift. Here are instructions for starting and managing your own Round Robin.
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Barter Is Better, part two: Seed Swaps Online
Now is the time to start planning this year's garden, but don't spend a small fortune on what you see in the catalogs. Get the same plants for the cost of a stamp by swapping online.
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Beating the Gardener's Winter Blues
This is a brief review of garden planning techniques. I review considerations touched on in the "Planning Your Garden" article of March in advance of the seed-starting season in February.
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Choosing The Corn Variety for You
Choose a variety of corn that suits your tastes as well as your growing area
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Edible Flowers from the Herb Garden
In most herb gardens, there are a number of plants species with edible flowers. Blossoms can really add a lot of zesty color and flavor to an otherwise ordinary meal.
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Florence Fennel - The Gourmet Vegetable
Florence fennel is both a vegetable and a herb which attracts beneficial insects. Now is the time to start it in the garden.
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From Tiny Seeds to Primulas Galore
From the first tiny seeds that travelled all the way from Scotland, the Primulas now give joy and are the glory of the summer garden at "Kibbenjelok"
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Green Tomatoes (and pink and purple and striped...)
Heirloom tomatoes offer the best of taste and variety.
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Harvesting Herbs
The first of a 3 part series on harvesting, drying and storing herbs.
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New "Old" Varieties for 2001
Of course they're not really new, but they could be new treats for your garden.
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Organic Edible Gardening With Kids
Even the most reluctant child may eat his broccoli when he commands the organic growing process from soil to table.
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Planning Next Year’s Desert Garden
Whether you're looking at bleak, snowy days in the high desert, or chilly winds in the low desert, now's the time to think about what your garden will look like next year
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Plant Potatoes in Autumn
You can plant potatoes in late November following these tips for a bountiful spring harvest.
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Pre-Spring Tune Up
Getting a head start on the season before the work load piles up can fill the time until we can get into the garden again.
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Preparing your Garden for Planting
Preparing your soil to support a bountiful harvest. Wood ashes are great for cleaning and enriching your garden soil.
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Ready, set, sow!
Now is the time to browse the online seed catalogues to plan a spring garden filled with annuals and vegetables. This article gives you the sources and the know-how to start sowing!
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Saving Plant Seeds
Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.
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Seed Germination tips,Epsom Salt/Miracle spray & Spicy Crabcakes
Patience is sometimes the KEY to germination. Maryland Crabcakes are the best..especially Hot-N-Spicy and tips on the Miracle Spray Epsom Salt.
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Seeds 2003
Pull up a chair and enjoy my annual seed-shopping guide.
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Seeds Are In The Air Again!
Seeds are in abundance right now! It's a tropical plant lovers paradise!
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The Dirty Laundry Behind Organic Seed Germination
Starting seeds indoors doesn't have to be scary, but it usually does take some practice...and a few piles of dirty laundry.
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Why Grow Heirlooms?
A quick introduction to some of the pleasures of growing fruits and vegetables that have been favorites for generations and still taste great.
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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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With a hopeful eye on the weather
March is a restless month for gardeners. With a constant eye on the weather, we wait for signs of spring. To wile away the days, surf the 'Net for weather forecasts of the upcoming gardening season.
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Chiles, Aphids, Datil Pepper and Beef Chipotle Chili.
Organic controls for pest-free Hot Peppers and the Famous St. Augustine, Florida, 'Datil Pepper' as well as a HOT Tex-Mex recipe are some of the features this month. Bon Apetite!!
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Grow Your Own
Even if you don't have a green thumb, indoor gardening is one way you may be able to make a dent in your grocery bills, and please your palate at the same time.
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Heirloom Seed and Heritage Seed
What is an heirloom seed, heirloom plant, or heirloom vegetable? Where can I buy heritage or heirloom seeds? Want to know? Learn the answers here.
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Integrate Poppies in the Landscape
Early season uniform poppy beds require planning and design to focus attention on residential and commercial landscapes. Presented is a planting sequence for Zone 5.
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Natural, Cheap Seed-Starting
Organic gardeners that start their plants from seeds can save money and ensure that no chemicals interfere with the growing process.
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NEW HERBS FOR 2003
Celebrate the new gardening season by trying some of the new herb varieties introduced for 2003.
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New Herbs for 2005
For hard-core gardeners, this is by no means too early to begin planning for the coming season. In 2005, you should see a number of excellent new varieties of herbs on the market.
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