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Less is More!

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 […]

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 […]