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You know a plant is wonderful when you see a football playing jock carefully harvesting the blooms of lilies because “They look pretty good.” And with that direct approach, a large armload of …
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This spring I moved our compost bin into the redesigned vegetable garden. It was an attempt to make the compost where we'd use it rather than having to dig and move it a hundred feet. And that's …
Pond scum is pretty much an ugly thing in the backyard pond and usually results from a complete unbalancing of the water system. You'll recognize it because of the floating algae that is coalescing …
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I have (and need) a lot of garden hoses. So first thing in the spring, I pull the hoses out from underneath the porch and lay them out in the backyard to begin the sorting. The big black ones are …
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I know, I know you want to grow every vegetable in the catalog. :-) However, let me suggest you take a deep breath and consider the five vegetables you like to eat. Or will eat may be more to the …
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I’m not sure how many of you have seen this website It is the oldest organic gardening organization in the U.K. (Used to be the Henry Doubleday Research Association) Fifty years old now. They have a …
