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How to Prepare the Garden For Winter by Sandy Swegel As Fall proceeds at full speed, our tasks in the garden take a new direction as we start primping for winter interest. There’s no longer time for flowers to set new buds to bloom before frost. There won’t be any tomatoes that aren’t already on […]
Preparing Your Garden For Fall by Sandy Swegel What a great time of year this is. And not just because the harvest is upon us and tomatoes are ripening and winter squash are filling out. It’s a great time because school is starting again and school supplies are in the stores bringing up great memories […]
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 […]
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 […]
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds I’m fortunate to know lots of gardeners. They are a quiet bunch for the most part and sometimes rather eccentric. But they are on the forefront of an environmental movement that is making a big difference in our community: turning front yards into vegetable gardens! It begins as the gardener runs out […]
Try These First Timer Tips If you are a beginner, you’ll soon learn that Gardening is both an art and science….and a bit of luck. You start by reading books and the backs of seed packets. You ask other gardeners and talk to strangers at the garden center. But mostly you observe. You watch what […]
How to Determine the Day in Your Area The gardener’s mantra in winter is, “how many days until the last frost?” But if you ask three gardeners you know what the last frost date is in your area, I’ll bet you get three different answers. That’s because determining “average” last frost is a lot like betting. Scientists can’t […]
What To Do With Your Fallen Apples by Sandy Swegel While I continue to have a good supply of huge zucchini from the four zucchini plants my neighbor is growing, the bounty and surplus this year is from apples. Talk about a windfall. Day after day there are dozens of apples that fall on the ground […]
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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