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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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Book Review: Strega Nona's Harvest
Gardening with kids? Here's a book they'll love, and you will, too.
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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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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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Video: A Vegetable Garden on Sesame Street
1 commentElmo, Big Bird, and Michelle Obama demystify gardening for the younger set.
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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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The Witching Hour: Gardening on the Dark Side
2 commentsIn the spirit of the season, steep yourself in herb lore.
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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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Pumpkins!
2 commentsIn October, pumpkins are everywhere. You can carve them, of course, but you can also eat them. And of course you can grow your own.
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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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What's the Best Way to Heat a Small Greenhouse?
11 commentsOn a more practical note while I do want to keep the greenhouse toasty inside, I'm also interested in keeping my electric bill down to a manageable size. Which isn't as simple as it sounds.
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To The Burren and Back!
3 commentsHere's an account of my visit to The Burren, an astounding limestone expanse on the western coast of Ireland, and my return to my garden in full fall mode.
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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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Help Wanted: Blogger
6 commentsCan you write engagingly, take decent photos, and post to our site a couple of times a month? You may be the gardener we're looking for.
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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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Seeing Green: The Emerald Isle
Ireland is a wonderland of magical bright green vistas—sometimes the sea is off in the distance—and other views feature unbelievable rock formations.
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QUESTION for Patti Moreno (and other rabbit owners!)
4 commentsHow much work is involved in raising a rabbit?
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Crabapple Pie is a Labor of Love
This year, the crabapples did not go to waste, thanks to an old Yankee Cookbook recipe.
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Specialty: culinary herbalism
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