It’s easy to go overboard when shopping for seed supplies. Not only is it exciting to start growing things again, but there are so many tempting products. If you’re not careful, starting seeds can become surprisingly expensive. But with a ...
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9 Clever Ways To Jump Start Your Garden During Winter
While garden season may seem a lifetime away when you’re hauling wood and shoveling snow mid-winter, there are many things you can be doing now to ensure a healthy, productive garden in the coming season. 1. Collect wood ash Wood ...
Read More »Inexpensive Ways To Help Potted Plants Survive Winter
Raise your hand if you’ve ever scored a massive deal at your local nursery at the end of the gardening season. Keep your hand up if those massive deals were on half-dead plants in plastic containers. I did that once. ...
Read More »How To Grow (And Harvest) Ginger Indoors … Without Killing It
Ginger is one of those ingredients that warms you from the inside out. It is especially great to have during winter as part of soups, teas, juices, Asian dishes and herbal remedies. And if you like to grow your ...
Read More »5 Reasons To Apply Mulch Before The Snow Flies
Mulch? In the winter? You betcha. Mulches — particularly organic ones — are gardening stars. But when mulches are touted, we usually hear about benefits that are specific to the growing season. Mulches, Wikipedia tells us, “retain moisture in the ...
Read More »Growing Salad Year-Round: The Right Way To Do It
Spring and summer bring a bounty of wonderful fresh vegetables to enjoy and for many, salad greens become a staple. But in the fall and winter, you might feel like you’re missing out if you can no longer enjoy fresh ...
Read More »The Indoor Winter Garden: 5 Vegetables You Didn’t Know You Could Grow In Hanging Baskets
The square footage of my vegetable garden is about the same as the square footage of my house. While I do love fresh organic veggies, finding space to grow them indoors during the winter can be a bit of a ...
Read More »7 Steps To Growing Citrus Indoors … No Matter Where You Live
When skies hang low and gray, few things brighten an indoor corner quite like a citrus tree. Laden with camouflaged limes or unignorable lemons, modern dwarf varieties mean that growing citrus is no longer the exclusive purview of the fortunate ...
Read More »The Indoor ‘Egyptian Secret’ That Grows Vegetables 30 Percent Faster
When you live in a climate that experiences changes in climate, you know that there’s a limited time of year where you can successfully garden. By using hydroponic technology, you can grow a garden in the winter — and you ...
Read More »So Many Zucchini, So Little Time! Tips To Use Up Your Zucchini Harvest
We’ve all heard jokes about gardeners creeping up to their neighbors’ doorsteps in the dead of the night to “give away” extra zucchini squash. There are few garden plants that produce as prolifically as zucchini. Although there are many creative ...
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