You waited seven, maybe nine months, for all that homegrown garlic to finish growing. Now that you’ve dug it all up, you want to savor it for as long as possible until…
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Tomato planting is something I look forward to every spring. I start counting the days from the time I sow my first seed to when I might have that first vine-ripened tomato…
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Your garlic cloves went in the ground last October, grew through winter and spring, and now that it’s May, they’re ready to be plucked from the garden, right? Well, maybe. Garlic is…
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I should know better, but it happens every year: I start too many seeds, feel uncertain about whether or not I planted enough, then realize I’m growing more than my family can possibly…
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Garden of Eatin', How-To, Seeds & SeedlingsStarting Seeds in Eggshells… Cute and Yes, Even Practical
You can start seeds in almost anything these days… peat pots, seed trays, toilet paper rolls, newspaper rolls, paper towels, or even that good old-fashioned thing called the ground. But have you…
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Exactly as the title says — this is an easy and foolproof guide to starting seeds indoors. Whether you have a dedicated vegetable bed in your backyard, or a cluster of containers…
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This post is in partnership with DripWorks. All thoughts and words are my own. In my last post, I went over why you should install a drip system, what a drip system…
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Early spring can feel like a game of garden roulette: sunny and warm one week, tempting you to transplant all those tomatoes you’d started inside, then wet and cold the next week,…
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This post is in partnership with 3-IN-ONE® and Lava Soap®. All thoughts and words are my own. When novice gardeners ask for advice on gardening tools, my response is always to buy the…