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Butterfly on Goldenrod
March 17, 2025

Don’t blame the goldenrod!

Sneezing, coughing, wheezing? Please don’t blame the goldenrod. Ragweed which is similar in appearance may be the culprit. Both bloom at the same time. But ragweed has small, nondescript flowers that are wind-pollinated. This means that ragweed’s fine and light pollen grains float through the air, possibly causing “hay fever.” Goldenrod, with its showy, colorful […]
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Landscape Fabric Use
March 10, 2025

Using Landscape Fabric

Whether you’re new to gardening or have been at it so long your thumb is a deep shade of green, you may have seen rolls of landscape fabric at DIY stores and gardening centers—and become intrigued. For those who lead active lives, spending a few hours on the weekend pulling or digging weeds out of a garden […]
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Vegetables in garden
March 5, 2025

Intro to Organic Gardening

What does it mean to have an organic garden? Does organic gardening mean you have to put up with insects eating your plants or unattractive flower beds? The short answer is that organic gardening means not using synthetic products, including pesticides and fertilizers. Ideally, organic gardening replenishes the resources as it makes use of them. […]
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Dried Vegetable Seeds
September 28, 2024

Saving Vegetable Seeds

Gardeners tend to be a thrifty lot, and saving seeds from one year to another just makes sense. So, start saving those vegetable seeds! Here’s a quick primer on the benefits of seed-saving and how to know when a seed is ripe. Why Save Seeds? There are three good reasons to learn the technique of seed-saving. Saving […]
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Autumn Mums
September 17, 2024

Mums the word!

Available in dozens of gorgeous varieties and colors, mums bloom for weeks – which is why they’re a favorite for filling pots and beds when other blooming plants start to wane.  Here are a few tips for caring for your garden mums. – Note – there are two types of mums. Those sold in Adams […]
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Fall Composting
September 1, 2024

Fall Composting

As autumn progresses, gardeners begin wondering what to do with all the plant parts that need to be pruned off, and later, all the leaves that will fall. A great alternative to those landscape waste bags is to recycle right in your own yard and benefit from all that free organic matter. Composting is not something […]
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Man Planting Garlic
September 1, 2024

Fall Gardening Tips

Putting the Garden to Bed This is mostly a matter of cleaning and covering up. As the temperatures drop, those plants that aren’t killed outright by frost prepare for dormancy. Clear out the spent stems and foliage of annual flowers and vegetables to prevent the possibility of their harboring disease pathogens and insect eggs over […]
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Petunias needing iron
August 14, 2024

Perk Up Your Petunias

Do your petunias or millions bells look very sad right now? Here’s what they may telling you: “My leaves are very pale in color. I’m hungry and need fertilizer and an iron supplement to help me look lush and green again. Try Jack’s Classic, Espoma or Fox Farm fertilizers.” “My flowers have disappeared! Look under […]
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Miss Violet Buddleia Butterfly Bush
July 1, 2024

August in the Garden

August is awesome in the flower garden which is exploding in color with 19 different kinds of zinnias, feathery and “brain-type” celosias, sunflowers (including a helianthus sunfinity double, an intro for 2025), cleome, cosmos, statice, marigolds, and a butterfly favorite, tithonia. My granddaughter Priya helped create 30 containers, each one displaying a new introduction for […]
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