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Your Spring Garden Clean-Up Checklist

Your Spring Garden Clean-Up Checklist

Stephan Winterfeldt

Start Spring Cleanup Late Enough to Not Disturb Sleeping Beneficial Insects You have started your tomato seeds indoors, and they look great. Seeing them grow makes you anxious to get...

Your Spring Garden Clean-Up Checklist

Stephan Winterfeldt

Start Spring Cleanup Late Enough to Not Disturb Sleeping Beneficial Insects You have started your tomato seeds indoors, and they look great. Seeing them grow makes you anxious to get...

Know Before You Grow: Melons

Know Before You Grow: Melons

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Watermelon and Other Melons from Seed When you think of melons, you probably think of summer. It's hard to beat the simple pleasure of eating a sweet,...

Know Before You Grow: Melons

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Watermelon and Other Melons from Seed When you think of melons, you probably think of summer. It's hard to beat the simple pleasure of eating a sweet,...

Canning Vegetables: The Basics

Canning Vegetables: The Basics

Shelby DeVore

It’s Canning Season!  July is when the garden is fulfilling its promise (a little earlier in the South and a little later in the far North). Maybe you are a...

Canning Vegetables: The Basics

Shelby DeVore

It’s Canning Season!  July is when the garden is fulfilling its promise (a little earlier in the South and a little later in the far North). Maybe you are a...

Know Before You Grow: Peas

Know Before You Grow: Peas

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Peas from Seed Peas are delicious fresh or cooked, frozen, or dried. They taste so good right off the vine that it is hard to save any...

Know Before You Grow: Peas

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Peas from Seed Peas are delicious fresh or cooked, frozen, or dried. They taste so good right off the vine that it is hard to save any...

Help for Stretched Seedlings

Help for Stretched Seedlings

Carrie Spoonemore

How to Identify Whether Your Indoor Seedlings are Stretched Are the seedlings you have started indoors now quite tall, rather pale, and/or downright spindly? Are they even beginning to bend...

Help for Stretched Seedlings

Carrie Spoonemore

How to Identify Whether Your Indoor Seedlings are Stretched Are the seedlings you have started indoors now quite tall, rather pale, and/or downright spindly? Are they even beginning to bend...

Know Before You Grow: Broccoli and Cauliflower

Know Before You Grow: Broccoli and Cauliflower

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Broccoli and Cauliflower If you want vegetables that are loaded with vitamins and nutrients as well as delicious flavors and beautiful, eye-catching colors, look no further than...

Know Before You Grow: Broccoli and Cauliflower

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Broccoli and Cauliflower If you want vegetables that are loaded with vitamins and nutrients as well as delicious flavors and beautiful, eye-catching colors, look no further than...