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Do It For The Pollinators I’m always in search of how to do things more easily and efficiently in the garden. Once again today I was at the garden center eavesdropping and heard a typical customer question: ”What should I plant to get pollinators to my yard?” The answer the garden center owner gave surprised […]
Get Out and Take a Hike by Sandy Swegel Our gardens are grand places to be. Assuming we don’t worry too much about weeds. Here are our favorite flowers to make us happy. And over there our favorite tomatoes are thinking about ripening. We may cultivate some wildness by planting a pollinator meadow but for […]
Gardening Self Care by Sandy Swegel Being in the garden is lots of fun…the time with nature, the growing, even the weeding are all a joy to the gardener. Less fun is how dirty we get and how irritating nature can be to our bodies, especially in the form of excess sun and pollen. Here […]
Preparing Your Plants for the Coming Frost by Sandy Swegel Frost? Are you crazy some might say? We’re finally hitting 90 degrees and the tomatoes are starting to grow. And you’re thinking about frost? But this isn’t about the last frost in the Spring…it’s about the first frost in the Fall. Knowing when the first […]
Gardens Name Themselves by Sandy Swegel A friend told me years ago that everything should have a name, even inanimate objects. She was helping me garden one year and within just a couple of weeks, everything we might ever have a need to refer to had a name. The big orange wheelbarrow, of course, was […]
Give Your Current Plants The Love They Deserves by Sandy Swegel One of my favorite things to do is spend other people’s money. Or better said, to go shopping with them and encourage them to buy the cool things they want to buy. I always covet plants and yet I know I don’t have the […]
Creative Ways to Help Your Garden by Sandy Swegel One of the problems with gardening is that you just can’t rush Mother Nature. If you don’t get those tomato seeds planted early enough, there’s just no way to trick the plants into growing overnight. Compost is the same…you can’t just mix everything up today and […]
Seed Starting Tips by Sandy Swegel Gardening can be frustrating for people who hate to wait. It’s not easy to speed Mother Nature along, so on a fine warm day, we find ourselves at the garden centers spending a lot of money on bedding plants or transplants. Seed lovers know that is not always a […]
Avoiding Plant Transplant Trauma by Sandy Swegel You’ve done all the work of getting little seedlings started. Maybe you’ve already hardened them off. Now, planting them in your garden has a few tricks that can make a big difference in how many vegetables you get to eat. “Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner” was one of the things I learned […]
Composting Tips by Sandy Swegel How to make bad compost: You need the right proportions of greens and browns to get the metabolic process going. Too much brown and nothing happens. Too much green and you either get slime or the greens just turn brown. You need the right amount of water. Too little water […]
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