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Growing Nasturtiums to Eat
A favourite edible bloom, nasturtiums are a lovely, colourful addition to any vegetable patch or community garden plot.
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NASTURTIUMS-JEWELS OF THE GARDEN
Some plants like to be pampered. Others prefer a hands-off approach. Nasturtiums thrive on neglect. Just give them a sunny spot in poor, dry soil.
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Flowering Plants for Kids to Enjoy
Children can be successful gardeners, growing bright flowering plants and aromatic herbs with joy when careful plant selections are made for them.
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Medieval Era Herb Garden Plants
Continuing to look at our herbs and medieval plants still in use today. Many medieval herbs and plants are still used in modern gardens very successfully.
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Edible Flowers
Edible flowers can add both color and flavor to your appetizer or salad.
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Edible Flowers for Colorful Salads
Edible flowers are making a comeback in celebrity chefs' cookery books and in stylish restaurants. Salads are a wonderful way to enjoy the color and flavor of flowers.
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Cascading and Trailing Annuals
Top six annual plant selections for weeping growth habit that adds lovely growth to containers, hanging baskets, raised beds, mixed borders, rock gardens and more.
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NEW HERBS FOR 2004
2004 brings a new gardening season. This year, a number of fine herbs are being introduced to American gardeners.
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Planning a Vegetable Patch
Gardeners should consider what to plant, what can be grown from seed, and how to incorporate colour into the vegetable garden in the upcoming growing season.
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October Plant Gallery
Plants of seasonal interest in October - photos, descriptions, hardiness and cultivation information.
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Summer Blooming Annuals
Summer blooming annuals are plants that flower in the summer, produce seed and then die. See six of the most popular and useful annual plants for summer flowers.
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Vines in Trees
Some vines in trees work well with the tree, but some invade the tree's canopy and eventually kill the tree.
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Cool Season and Cold Tolerant Annuals
Now we can plant cool season and cold tolerant flowering plants to reward ourselves for making it through another winter. Just don't forget that they were raised in greenhouses and need to be acclimated to the weather before you leave them on their own.
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Gardening In The Low Desert, February 2000
Gardening in the low desert for January, including companion planting, citrus care, starting seeds for vegetables and other things to be done this month.
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Plants For Summer Container Combinations
Here are some of my favorite annuals for summer - Check them out and recommend your favorites!
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Companion Plants: Tomato Asparagus
When you plant tomatoes with asparagus, they complement each other and help each other thrive. That is what companion planting is all about.
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Growing Herbs in Containers: Light, Life Cycles, & Propagation
Lists of herbs that can be grown in containers, with info about their light needs, life cycles, and best methods of propagation.
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Herb Glossary: Lavender to Oregano
These plants have a myriad of medicinal, culinary and decorative uses, several of which are detailed here.
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Create a "Living Nectar Screen" for Hummers!
Create a unique "living nectar screen" for your hummers! Planting climbers on both sides of free standing dividers will produce masses of color and foliage, and also provide your hummingbirds with a steady diet of nectar from early spring through late fall.
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Sweetheart Garden, Themes for Children's Gardens Series
February is the perfect time to consider planning a Valentine sweetheart garden for you and your child. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
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The Charm of Herbs
Herbs cast a spell upon gardeners, With their fragrance and texture, these are very worthwhile landscape plants. Here is the latest scoop on new varieties, books, and research on herbs.
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Attracting Beneficial Insects
Attracting helpful insects such as bees, butterflies and ladybugs to the vegetable garden is easy to do by adding beautiful feature plants to the patch.
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Coffee Can Planter Project
This simple and fun coffee can planter project will result in unique and attractive containers for the back yard, deck or balcony garden.
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Edible Flowers: Take Time to Nibble the Roses
Let loose the creative cook inside and whip up a few meals with flower power! Flowers not only dress up a salad or dessert, they add exotic and unusual flavor to any meal.
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I am what I eat
if we eat what was grown in the healthy soil.
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Install a Rain Barrel to Save Water
Gardeners can save water and reduce the water bill by collecting rain water in a barrel or other container near the vegetable plot.
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Introduction to the Rules of Companion Planting
Companion planting is an organic, chemical-free way to achieve maximum productivity, beauty and health in your garden.
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Supports for Climbing Vegetables
Add visual appeal and maximize potential growing space by creating unusual, functional structures for climbing fruits and vegetables in your garden!
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Creating a Special Memory Garden
Gardeners can commemorate the birth of a child visually in the garden, honor the loss of a loved one or celebrate a special event or wedding anniversary with plants.
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Good Companions
You know about basil and tomatoes and roses and garlic. But what about French beans and onions or lettuce and strawberries? Companion planting can provide larger, healthier plants and help avoid spraying.
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Grow annual vines for quick cover
Looking for a quick fix to cover that chain link fence? Try a fast growing annual vine.
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Seeing Red
Red, one of the most powerful colors in the spectrum, can add a warm look to your garden. There are many combinations of red flowers which will create striking displays.
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Beautiful Edgings! Wrap your garden up neatly
Those front of the border plants can make or break your garden
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Butterfly Gardens for Pollinators
Butterfly gardens are easy to grow and attract beneficial insects. Understanding these pollinators will help when creating a flower garden for butterflies.
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Companion Planting
By knowing which plants like to grow together and which ones don't, your garden can be more productive than ever.
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Garden Spells
Sisters Claire and Sydney Waverley are just like any other modern American women--they struggle with love, romance...and a little thing called a family legacy of magic.
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Growing Easy Container Gardens
Read about some great ways to create beautiful container gardens.
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How To Enjoy Your Martini Outdoors
Although the Martini carries an air of distinction and sophistication, there is no reason it can't go on a picnic, hike, cross country ski outing or hunting trip.
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Bible Spices and Herbs
This is the final article about Bible herbs, spices and fiber plants for Northern gardens.
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Companion Plants for Home-Grown Tomatoes
Companion planting, a staple technique of chemical-free horticulture, works particularly well for tomatoes. Find out which plants will help your crop!
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Connecting with Nature Matters
Renowned biologist, eco-psychologists and "green" builders agree that interaction with nature is vital to our wellbeing. Here are simple ways to add nature to each day.
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Easy Plants to Grow From Seeds
Close your eyes and cast your seeds to the wind. It's almost that simple. A list of nearly fail-proof seeds that produce living, green plants.
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Edible Flowers
Edible flowers add color and interest to meals and beverages.
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Herbal Salad Dressings
Herb Gardening is a bi-weekly column on growing, harvesting herbs; culinary, medicinal and crafting uses.
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Springtime Fun
Ideas for early spring
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Summer in the Flower Garden
Continue caring for your annual and perennial flower gardens in the summer months to ensure a continuous succession of blooms until first frost.
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Teaching Preschoolers the Letter G
Preschoolers can successfully learn to trace and write the letter G as well as recognize objects beginning with the letter G through simple, fun activities.
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Backyard Adventure
We often seek escapes to exotic destinations without realizing the wonder and adventure in our own backyard. Experience the natural surroundings with a holiday at home.
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