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5 FREE Soil Amendments that you can Easily Find!

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 […]

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 […]

How to Transplant your Veggie Starts

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 […]