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2 Easy Ways to Have More Flowers Next Year

A fun guide on how to grow more flowers, easily! The two methods include: 1. Sowing mature seeds – Remove seed pods from spent and dried flowers. – Break apart seed pod to release mature seeds. – Scatter seeds and stir them into the soil surface. 2. Replanting new starts – Locate new seedlings starting […]

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New Agricultural Products

by Sandy Swegel As a gardener I often say “Thank God.” The growing legality of growing marijuana has meant a proliferation of stores that sell amazing tools and new agricultural products that make gardening easier and cheaper. Despite living in Colorado, I’ve never been interested in smoking pot. Even as a decadent college student I […]

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Communicating with Plants

Use Your Own Intuition to Garden by Sandy Swegel Reading through all the garden porn…uh I mean seed catalogs…I found myself quite transported this morning.  Looking at the beautiful pictures in the catalogs, I realized that when I considered getting seeds for a certain plant, my mind was quite filled with images of what the […]

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Winter Sowing

Seed Starting by Sandy Swegel My first packets of seeds have come in the mail and I’m so eager to start gardening, but the 10 inches of old snow that’s still all over my garden is a real obstacle.  My lights are reserved for tomatoes and peppers….but I want to Garden NOW.  When I’m in this predicament, […]

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A Tip for Impatient Gardeners

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 […]

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Gardening on Top of the World

…with Penn Parmenter! Baskets of Beauty Food is beautiful.  I love growing hanging baskets of beautifully colored lettuces and greens. They make a wonderful winter gift and I promise you – if you show up to your next dinner party with a full-blown basket of edible beauty – you will win the night.  It won’t […]

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How to Make Garden Friends

Seeds Bring People Together by Sandy Swegel Many of the ideas for this blog come from questions I hear from an email list of gardeners I belong to.  I introduced a new gardener to our group this week and she was so grateful to suddenly have a whole network of people she could turn to […]