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Know Before You Grow: Lavender

Know Before You Grow: Lavender

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Lavender from Seeds Lavender is such a joy in garden and home that every gardener should grow at least a containerful, and the lucky among us will...

Know Before You Grow: Lavender

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Lavender from Seeds Lavender is such a joy in garden and home that every gardener should grow at least a containerful, and the lucky among us will...

The Beginning Gardener’s Guide to Composting

The Beginning Gardener’s Guide to Composting

Dale Spoonemore

Composting Can Lead to More Fulsome Plants, Vegetables, and Flowers While we love to plant and admire our beautiful results in our gardens, we sometimes forget about our soil. As...

The Beginning Gardener’s Guide to Composting

Dale Spoonemore

Composting Can Lead to More Fulsome Plants, Vegetables, and Flowers While we love to plant and admire our beautiful results in our gardens, we sometimes forget about our soil. As...

How to Deter Deer from Your Garden

How to Deter Deer from Your Garden

Carrie Spoonemore

The Buck Stops Here Did you know that an adult deer will eat six to 10 pounds of greenery daily? You probably do if your yard is their dining room!...

How to Deter Deer from Your Garden

Carrie Spoonemore

The Buck Stops Here Did you know that an adult deer will eat six to 10 pounds of greenery daily? You probably do if your yard is their dining room!...

Park's Guide to the Best Cherry Tomatoes

Park's Guide to the Best Cherry Tomatoes

Carrie Spoonemore

Guide to Growing Cherry Tomatoes from Seed The first time I tasted a sun-warmed cherry tomato straight from the vine, I stopped thinking of tomatoes as something that belonged in...

Park's Guide to the Best Cherry Tomatoes

Carrie Spoonemore

Guide to Growing Cherry Tomatoes from Seed The first time I tasted a sun-warmed cherry tomato straight from the vine, I stopped thinking of tomatoes as something that belonged in...

Know Before You Grow: Mint

Know Before You Grow: Mint

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Mint from Seeds Ideal to grow for beginning gardeners, mint Is the easiest of all herbs to grow. Mint is a hardy perennial in Zones 4-9, in...

Know Before You Grow: Mint

Stephan Winterfeldt

How to Grow Mint from Seeds Ideal to grow for beginning gardeners, mint Is the easiest of all herbs to grow. Mint is a hardy perennial in Zones 4-9, in...

Bean Diseases: Abbreviations Defined

Bean Diseases: Abbreviations Defined

Carrie Spoonemore

Bean Diseases-Abbreviations Defined Selecting the best varieties of vegetables to grow each year should include not only flavor, yield, and growth habit, but also disease resistance. Disease resistant varieties will...

Bean Diseases: Abbreviations Defined

Carrie Spoonemore

Bean Diseases-Abbreviations Defined Selecting the best varieties of vegetables to grow each year should include not only flavor, yield, and growth habit, but also disease resistance. Disease resistant varieties will...