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California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening Book Review
If you want to grow a beautiful and bountiful edible garden in California, Claire Splan’s new book is your guide to success. California Fruit & Vegetable Gardening addresses the challenges gardeners face in the Golden State.
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Front Yard Vegetable Gardening
If you’re tired of spending time and energy growing a green, but inedible front yard, there’s a delicious alternative waiting for you.
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Prolific Pole Beans
5 commentsPole bean varieties are tender, flavorful, prolific, and easy to grow. They're the perfect vegetable crop for the home garden.
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Harvesting Edible Weeds from the Backyard
With the advent of spring weather comes a huge variety of wild edibles in our gardens and yards, and these can be harvested and brought into the kitchen. Learn how to harvest three of my spring favorites: stinging nettle, dandelion, and chickweed.
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Video: How to Harvest Stinging Nettles
Stinging nettle is a great spring tonic, but the leaves and stem are prickly and will sting bare skin. See how to harvest it in this video.
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"Organic Gardener's Companion" Book Review
It is possible to grow an organic vegetable garden in the West. All you need is soil, sun, seeds and Jane Shellenberger’s new book.
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This is your LAST chance to win!
There is just one more chance to win a RainPerfect Pump. Don't miss out on this exciting contest!
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The Difference Between Hot, Cold, and Warm Compost Piles
2 commentsNo matter how much time you have (or the length of your attention span), there's a composting style for everybody. How to do hot, cold, and warm composting.
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Get ready for your THIRD chance to win!
We're on week THREE of our exciting contest with RainPerfect Pump. If you haven't won yet...don't worry. You could be the next winner!
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How to Grow Potatoes in a Trash Bag
12 commentsPotatoes are one of the easiest vegetables to grow. Even if you don’t have a large garden, you can grow potatoes in a 30-gallon trash bag.
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Aloe Vera, A Favorite and Useful Houseplant
Aloe vera is a tropical succulent with many uses. It will suffer if left outdoors when the night-time temperatures dip below 40° F; these plants must be brought inside a heated greenhouse or sunroom in order to survive cold winters (colder than zone 10).
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Native Seeds/SEARCH Catalog Review
2 commentsYou don’t have to garden in the Southwest to appreciate the work of Native Seeds/SEARCH. The varieties listed in its Seedlisting catalog promote “ancient seeds for modern needs.”
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Gardening for Beginners
3 commentsKatie Elzer-Peters new gardening guide is like a cookbook for beginning gardeners. Her “Beginner’s Illustrated Guide to Gardening” provides all the recipes they need for starting a garden and keeping it growing.
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Small-Space Gardening Book Review
If you enjoy reading contributing editor Chris McLaughlin’s weekly posts about vegetable gardening, you’ll love her new book on gardening in small spaces.
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Some thoughts on Groundhog Day
2 commentsYou say groundhogs, I say woodchucks. Either way, February 2 is their special day.
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Growing Oregano In the Kitchen Herb Garden
Oregano requires very little attention and happily produces many pungent, aromatic leaves with the most basic care. Pots or containers make a perfect home for oregano, which makes it handy for back porches or those with limited garden space.
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Catalog Review: Abundant Life Seeds
Abundant Life Seeds has been producing organic, Biodynamic & sustainably-grown seeds since 1975.
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Grow Heirloom Sweet and Hot Peppers in Your Vegetable Garden
2 commentsJust like all of the other vegetables out there, when you choose to grow heirloom sweet or bell peppers, a whole new world is opened up to you.
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Caging to Prevent Cross-Pollination of Vegetable Varieties
Caging is one type of physical barrier technique that allows heirlooms and open-pollinated plants to produce pure seed.
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Fisher's Seeds Catalog
2 commentsLonging for an old-fashioned approach to vegetable gardening? Then you’ll appreciate the no-nonsense attitude of the catalog from Fisher’s Seeds in Belgrade, Mont.
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