How to Overwinter Hot Pepper Plants
As summer draws to a close and the days become shorter, I always feel a little bit wistful as I put my hot peppers to...
Gardening Tip – Tips and tricks to Keep your garden green
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Win a FREE SEED VAULT – Tips for Saving Heirloom Garden Seeds
There is something very rewarding about saving seeds. Share them with your friends & neighbors, or give them away as small gifts. By saving your...
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A Garden for Butterflies – FineGardening
Today’s photos come from garden designer James Dillon. Attached are pictures of a garden I designed pro bono for the Monarch Alliance (a nonprofit in...
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FORAGING – Coming Home Through Traditional Foods
Record-Eagle.com – Today’s mass-produced food landscape is often detrimental to food sovereignty efforts. Indigenous ancestral teachings are anchored in creation stories and cover science,...
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How to Care for Calendula in Winter
Calendula is one of my very favorite herbs to grow in the garden. The bright, cheerful flowers provide a splash of color in the autumn...
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Silty Soil Suggestions: Amending & Improving Silt
Many of our world’s ancient civilizations were created along the banks of rivers. This is not a coincidence because rivers offered strategic resources. The ancient...
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The three best alternatives to box for simple topiary – The Middle-Sized Garden
October 18th, 2020 Posted In: Garden trends & design, Gardening know how There are only a few good alternatives to box (English boxwood or Buxus...
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Different Types of Bird of Paradise Plants
With their tufted heads and uncanny beaks, all the different types of bird of paradise flowers (Strelitzia spp.) are showstoppers in their own right. Even...
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How to Winterize Milkweed Plants
I absolutely love milkweed. When the towering stalks pop up each summer, I get to watch my garden turn into a monarch butterfly paradise! Milkweed...
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groundcovers: out with the old, in with the natives, with ken druse
WHAT THE WORD “groundcover” means has really changed in the years Ken Druse and I have been gardening. And I’ll admit right here, some of...