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Why You Want Redworms and Earthworms in Your Garden
5 commentsI like being a worm farmer. Like my fondness for rabbit poop, I take great pride in the rich nutrients they produce for my garden. These are natural talents we humans can't begin to duplicate. Our poop just isn't that great.
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Plant and Harvest Broccoli this Winter (and the "Choppin' Broccoli" song)
Many gardeners started their broccoli seeds several weeks ago. However, I was slow on the up-take this year and didn't start any seeds myself. I was so slow, in fact, that instead of getting to carefully choose my broccoli variety, I had had to pick up whatever was available at the nursery. Works for me; beggars can't be choosers.
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Video: The Indoor Vegetable Garden, Part 5
This is the final video in the Indoor Vegetable Garden Series. Don't miss it.
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Harvest Carrots Faster in Any Type of Soil
Carrots are an excellent source of beta-carotene (converted to vitamin A in the body), Vitamins K with traces of C, B, and E. They’re a good source for potassium and manganese, as well. Whose body couldn't use that nutrition for the winter?
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Video: The Indoor Vegetable Garden, Part 4
In Part 4 of The Indoor Vegetable Gardening series, I start seeds in recycled containers.
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The Indoor Vegetable Garden, Part 3
In Part 3 of my Indoor Vegetable Gardening Series, I expand my growing space. Check out how I maximize my indoor growing space.
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All seeds are treated equally, even biennials
Tips and challenges for saving seed from biennial plants in a cool climate. After all, every seed deserves to be saved!
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Growing and Harvesting Winter Lettuce
1 commentWhile lettuces are predominately a cool-weather crop, there are summer varieties available that don't disappoint. They're so easy to plant, grow, and harvest that I try to have lettuces in my garden every season.
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Video: The Indoor Vegetable Garden, Part 2
1 commentIn the second installment of my Indoor Vegetable Gardening Series I plant the seeds! Watch to see the different vegetables I am starting.
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Video: The Indoor Vegetable Garden, Part 1
In the first installment of my five-part Indoor Garden Video Series, I build an inexpensive plant stand for my sun porch.
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Cool Weather Lettuce for Fall and Winter Gardens
3 commentsAny gardeners out there planning on having some home-grown lettuce on the Christmas dinner table? What varieties are you planting and where the heck are you?
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Video: Getting Started in Worm Composting
1 commentHere's how to turn your kitchen scraps into nutrient-rich compost.
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Saving Squash Seed
1 commentPeople have saved squash seeds for hundreds of years. Read about one technique we use to process squash seeds at Seed Savers Exchange and different methods that have been used throughout history.
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Video: Composting Made Easy
4 commentsJodie Colon, Compost Educator at Bronx Green-Up, shows you how to mix dead, dry leaves and stems, fresh moist green plant materials, and food scraps in a compost heap.
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Grow Herbs Indoors this Winter
Some gardeners grow a fall garden outdoors, some plant an eclectic group of flowers and veggies in a heated greenhouse, and others plant an herb garden indoors. Then there are those of us die-hards that practice all of the above in determined to feed the plant addiction year-round.
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Saving Titan sunflower seeds
A Baseball players guide to eating and saving sunflower seeds.
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The Best of the Fall-Harvest Apples
You just can't get the whole pie baking experience from the inside of a box on the freezer isle. No, the true affair of pie baking is an event.
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Fall Leaves Make a Great Garden Mulch
2 commentsDon't bag them and send them to the dump. Put this resource to work for your garden.
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Spiders in the Garden
4 commentsHollywood and Halloween have done nothing for the reputation of spiders (not to mention bats) and their true value they bring to the natural world.
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Why Grow Your Own Food?
4 commentsSuburban and urban farming is being accomplished successfully in backyards everywhere. And it is being done with high yields on very little land.
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Our contributing editors are accomplished gardeners, passionate about discovering and sharing new ideas and practical techniques.
Danielle Sherry
Specialty: Small scale veg gardening
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Matt Berger
Specialty: first time gardener
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Specialty: suburban farming
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