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Taking Care of Your Plants in the Heat July can be hot in the garden. If you’ve kept up with weeding earlier in the season, there may not be too much work outside of harvesting veggies. Two midsummer tasks are important now. Fertilize plants that have been working hard. Tomatoes….because I want lots of tomatoes and […]
How To Know What to Plant This Month by Sandy Swegel As a gardener, I’m always surprised by the veggie seed sales in July. I know from a marketing point of view the prime seed-buying season has past and companies have to move product still in inventory. But from a gardening perspective, it doesn’t make […]
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 […]
The Ins and Outs of Freezing Your Produce by Sandy Swegel The avid vegetable growers on my gardening email list have noted that alas, despite trying to plan well, their freezers and pantries are almost bare despite the fact that there’s still snow on the garden. We’re fortunate to live in times with well-stocked grocery stores. […]
Preparing Your Garden for What You Really Need The holiday season always involves lots of cooking. Each time I’m shopping for food I find myself thinking, I could have grown that. A big winter squash cost me $5 the other day. And paying $2 for parsley that practically grows itself suddenly seems crazy. As I think […]
My Favorite Gift Giving Tips by Sandy Swegel Are you the kind who is frantically looking around for inexpensive gifts to bring to a party you’re going to tomorrow night? Or perhaps you’re the kind of person who had your holiday shopping and decorating done by Thanksgiving evening and now you’re relaxing in your lovely […]
Picking Your Favorite Tomatoes for the Year by Sandy Swegel What were your favorite tomatoes this year? Or should I say who were your favorites since we do have relationships with our plants! We had a killing frost so it is officially the end of the tomato season, although just the beginning of the “what […]
Mid-Season Garden Report Card How is your garden faring? by Sandy Swegel Here’s the report card for my garden. June had record high temperatures and little rainfall. Lots of extra watering helped, but plants don’t grow as well without natural rainfall. Lettuces and Spinach. The heat made them bolt early and they are all bitter or […]
Preparing for Late Summer Harvest and Beyond by Sandy Swegel I was surfing the garden internet last night at Garden Rant http://gardenrant.com/2012/06/grazing-my-way-through-the-lull.html where blogger Michele Owens is lamenting the midsummer lull in her vegetable garden. It’s so true, late June is a difficult time in both the vegetable and flower garden. There was the wild […]
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