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2 days ago by Tim B.

Well, it is probably about time for the mid-season garden progress report. The spring garden was a success. Most of the spring crops did well, despite all of the heavy rain. The spring crops that have been harvested include lettuce, green onions, broccoli, and peas. Side shoot harvest continues on t ...

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9 days ago by Gardener

At first, he thought they were the noblest of creatures. Everyday one or two would visit our meadow, grazing like little brown and white lawn mowers across the four acre expanse. “Beautiful creatures,” he would smile. But by the time the whole ordeal reached its volcanic conclusion, the fuzzy four-l ...

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19 days ago by Sharon

Hi Folks - I’ve still got spots in my fall gardening class coming up in July. The class will run four Tuesdays, from July 7-July 28, and cover most of the details of setting up a fall garden. For those of you in really warm or cold climates, or in the southern hemisphere, the information will be rel ...

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30 days ago by mynortherngarden

Another sign of the rise of the grow-your-own-food movement arrived in my mailbox today: I got a seed catalog — for vegetables, in June. The Territorial Seed winter catalog includes dozens of varieties of vegetables to grow in greenhouses, hoop-houses or other season-extending apparatus. As you migh ...

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50 days ago by gardener

The author of Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series), Steve Solomon, is a well-known West Coast gardener who has written several books. He also teaches gardening master classes at the University of Oregon and throughout North America. In today’s ...

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82 days ago by laurelhilke

Techniques For Achieving Better Homes And Gardens By: Stephen Campbell Many gardeners strain to evade fall gardening as much as they can because of the winter frosts which ordinarily fall quite early and can make things somewhat tough. Discovering all you can regarding fall gardening and other garde ...

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92 days ago by GreenFingers

The fall has arrived, and while some people take this season as indicative of a time to stop doing yard work, it can actually be a time to do some beautiful yard work. Fall is known for its beautiful colors, and you can make those a part of your garden by doing some fall gardening. Think [...]

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121 days ago by gardener

For beginner gardeners, one of the biggest challenges is actually planting the plants! Getting them out of the pot, figuring out where to plant them and then trying to dig a hole the right size isn’t that difficult, but if you’ve never done it before it can be rather scary. Here are 6 [...]

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199 days ago by Milkweed

It's been unseasonably warm this week, so we pulled back the floating row covers to reveal the toughest of the fall-planted veggies, still soldiering on even after nights in the single digits. Here's what's still growing: Chinese Cabbage (pictured above) Mustards Beets Chard Alliums-Leeks, Onions, G ...

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207 days ago by stephscip

I've just polished off the last bit of pole beans that I got from my garden. Included with that was a wild garlic that I got from my compost heap and two tomatoes that I had sitting on my window sill. I wanted to get to the tomatoes before the killing frost in zone five. As long as they have even th ...

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