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Soil Preparation
Soil Preparation
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Turf Needs TLC Too
For much of the northern hemisphere, fall is an important time to care for lawns.
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Composting Supplies for Gardeners
Organic gardeners who aren't getting quick results from their composting methods can speed up the decomposition process with these compost helpers.
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Digging Daffodil Bulbs
The care and cleaning and preserving of daffodil bulbs is an important part of the gardening experience.
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Gift Ideas for Organic Gardeners
Organic gardeners are a special breed. When birthdays and holidays come around, nothing makes them happier than a gift bag of dried manure. Here are some more ideas.
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How to Treat Common Compost Problems
Turn smelly compost bins and cold compost piles into sources of rich organic humus for the garden with these composting tips.
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Indoor Composting Methods
Organic gardeners can create odorless compost indoors using modern bins and composting methods. No red worms are required.
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Islands of Delight
How to plan and create island beds
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Mid-winter gardening
This article describes a presentation given by Judith Adam during a workshop held at the Civic Garden Centre in Toronto on Sunday, February 28, 1999.
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Much ado about mulch
Mulching garden beds with leaves protects perennial plants from the freeze and thaw cycles so typical of our southern Ontario climate.
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Organic Gardening
Organic gardening and conventional vegetable gardening differ in pest control and fertility: organic gardening utilizes organic weed killer and organic fertilizer.
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Unusual Items to Add to Compost
Add unusual or unconventional ingredients to your compost, and increase your humus production while keeping waste out of the landfill.
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Compost: Organic Fertilizer
Compost is an organic fertilizer and mulch. Learn how to make organic fertilizer in a compost pile and benefits of compost as organic fertilizer and mulch.
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Gardening Tips 101
Gardening Tips 101
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Perfect Patios - Part 2
Using containers, borders and raised beds to grow a range of climbers, shrubs, perennials and annuals to enhance your patio garden
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Plant Health Care, Part 3- Soil Micro-biota
Soils are communities of living organisms that often form symbiotic relationships that function to enhance plant health, vigor and growth. In part 3 of PHC, check out the Micro-biota that inhabit the rhizosphere.
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Soil Rejuvenation
Soil Rejuvenation: Your Plants and Flowers Will Thank You For It! Improve old garden dirt by adding soil amendments, such as peat moss, redwood soil conditioner, organic compost, gypsum, milorganite, etc.
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Summer Perk Up
Perk up your late summer garden by planting second crops of both flowers and vegetables. You can also weed, mulch, prune, deadhead and more to keep your garden looking tidy.
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Tumbler Compost Bin
Using a compost bin or compost tumbler is a big help in making compost. It averages 4-6 weeks in a tumbler compost bin, while a compost pile might take 1 year.
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Year of the Melon
National Garden Bureau names 2005 the Year of the Melon. Includes watermelon, cantaloupe, crenshaw, and honeydew.
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Composting – Emulating Nature
Composting is the making of soil through a process that emulates nature.
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Designing a Landscape for Seaside Garden Success
Beautiful seaside gardens need the correct garden landscape to thrive. Planning to counter wind, salt spray and soil problems will ensure a beautiful seaside garden.
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Waterwise Gardening
Waterwise gardeners need only follow a few principles to conserve and make the most of a dwindling resource.
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Great Garlic Growing & Harvesting
Growing garlic is easy, and so is keeping it fresh for healthy, flavorful cooking! Read on for spring and summer garlic care, and check out great fall planting tips too!
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Planning for Perennial Crops - Vegetables
Perennial vegetables will be growing in the same spot for as much as two decades, so it's important to choose and prepare their locations carefully.
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Agricola Torelli Mario
Farming organic is a choice according to Gianfranco Torelli. It has become a family tradition, to be stewards of the land and to leave a rich legacy to the next generation. Read what "Biologica" means to this winemaker.
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Care of Iris Flowers
All varieties of iris flowers can be easily grown in any lawn or garden by following a few simple care and maintenance guidelines.
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Caring for Alstroemeria Flowers
Alstroemeria flowers are easy-to-grow perennials which require only minimal care and routine maintenance to thrive in the garden for many years.
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Caring for Aster Flowers
Aster flowers can add color and style to any home garden with a little care and routine maintenance.
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Compost, a Gardener's Black Gold
Gardeners around the world use compost to feed their garden, which is a special potion called 'Black Gold' by those familiar with it.
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Front versus Backyards
Front versus Backyard Gardens.
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Lawns: Seed vs. Sod
Lawns: Seed vs. sod. Fall is the perfect time to get a new lawn. Whether it's seed or sod, soil preparation is a key.
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Sure Signs of Fall
Signs of Fall: Fall gardening Chores
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Trimillii AmiciViticoltori
A group of Italian winemakers from various parts of Italy come together to create organic wines.
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Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens help show America's resolve and show patriotism not witnessed since World War II. Time to plant many row crops, including lettuce, cabbage, spinach, kale, Asian vegetables, garlic, artichokes, asparagus and more.
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Winter Salad Vegetables: Born to be Mild
Winter Vegetables: Grow your own salad in the depths of winter throughout most of California.
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Winter Tasks for Trees and Shrubs
Trees and shrubs add structural interest to the winter organic garden. Ensure they survive the season with proper maintenance.
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A Kitchen Witch's Garden
An introduction to growing a magical garden for kitchen witches, covering herbs, vegetables, fruit and flowers.
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Bare-Root Season is Here
Bare-Root fruit trees, nut trees, some shade trees, grapes, raspberries, blackberries and more can be planted during our mild-winter garden season in California
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Brassicas Bring in the New Year
Harvest a bevy of brassica greens from the southern kitchen garden for a healthy diet in the new year.
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Building a No-dig Garden
A no-dig, raised bed garden is easy to build following these straight-forward instructions. Such a garden will give years of maintenance free production.
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Don't Waste Those Leaves!
Piles of valuable nutrients rain onto our yards and gardens each fall. Here's how to make the most of fallen leaves.
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Easy Composting in the Garden
Composting directly in the garden is easy and has advantages over traditional methods.
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Edible Flowers and Leaves of Garlic Chives
Garlic chives are herbaceous perennials grown for their excellent flavor and attractiveness as garden specimens.
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Fall Classics
Fall Classics
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Fruit Tree Primer
Fruit Tree Primer. It's bare-root fruit tree season. Time to plant.
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Garden Compost to Produce Blooming Gardens
Well balanced compost helps to produce a lush garden while home produced compost is good for the environment. A well designed compost bin produces eco-friendly mulch.
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Give Your Lawn Some 'Air'
Aeration: 'Air' for Lawns
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Grow Giant Vegetables Organically
If you've ever admired a pumpkin that looked like Cinderella's coach or a giant tomato that resembled a softball, learn how you can grow giant produce without chemicals.
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Growing Violets and Pansies - Viola
With their colorful faces and sweet scent, violets are one of the first flowers to awaken and ring in spring.
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