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How to Outsmart Your Weeds

Our Favorite Weeding Tips by Sandy Swegel It’s Spring.  Your plants are tiny and growing. Your weeds are huge and growing.  If you want a nice garden, you really do have to outsmart your weeds and deal with the weeds that are gobbling up your soil nutrients and drinking your water.  Weeding doesn’t have to […]

3 Superfast Ways to Weed this Spring!

How to Quickly Handle Weeds 1. Off with their heads.  Most of us spend our time nurturing seedlings….but weed seedlings are a very different species.  With the first warm spells of spring, hundreds of thousands of weed seeds germinate.  I sharpen my hand-held hoe (a scuffle hoe works too…any sharp edge) and one swift run along the […]

Front Yard Vegetable Gardens

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 […]