Saturday, 21 April 2018

Google Alert - garden tips

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Daily update April 21, 2018
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As you plant your vegetable garden this year, remember to rotate the various crops. Tomatoes, for example, should not be grown in the same soil two years in a row — primarily because of disease organisms remaining in the soil. So plant your new tomato starts where you grew your squashes last year; ...
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I recently shared a few (if 60 is a few) of my favorite photos of art in the garden with the Indianapolis Hostas Society. I clarified to the audience that I was indeed not an artist, by any means. But after years of writing and taking photos for garden features for various magazines and simply touring gardens for ...
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LEWES, Del. — At the end of an exceptionally cold March, Austrian peas and other plants were braving the chill just outside the hoop house of Hattie Allen, a member of Future Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture. A small group of farmers had joined her for a hands-on workshop ...
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"Just look at that rich, dark soil," I exclaimed the other day, while leaning on a hoe and gazing tenderly at a freshly dug furrow. "Think of how cozy you'll be underneath such a soft blanket of earth." "I also hope you'll appreciate the hours I toiled getting rid of so many rocks and roots," I continued. "Not to ...
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(Swipe or click to scroll photos) Morning glories can be grown in containers or in the garden as long as they have plenty to climb, moist soil and lots of ... a little closer to gardening season, so the Herald Times opted to gather some gardening tips from a master gardener who lives and plants in the area.
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Pollinators are the unsung heroes of the garden or, in the case of the matriarchy of bees, the heroines. Honeybees are responsible for every one in three bites of food we take, but in recent years, they have disappeared at an alarming rate. In 2015, 42 percent of bee colonies collapsed in the United ...
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Local gardeners answer questions about spring gardening and offer tips to homeowners in or around The Woodlands area on what flowers and plants go best with each season throughout the year and how to best maintain a garden.
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It may be argued that a garden can consist of a few pots on a deck or balcony or a small plot outside the kitchen door but most people would think a much larger area would be necessary. A plot 40 feet/12 m wide and 60feet/18m long should furnish enough fresh vegetables for a family of six adults with ...
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... may finally have some warmer weather ahead, which means it's time to plant your summer garden. No summer garden is complete without tomatoes, so whether you like red, pink, yellow, purple, white, beefsteaks, slicers, cherries, or grapes, here are some tips on getting your tomato garden started. 1.
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A: Most university potato researchers recommend cutting seed potatoes into blocky chunks that have at least two eyes for home garden planting, and then spreading the pieces in shallow containers (the garage is usually fine) to 'suberize' or heal over, which helps prevent rotting after planting. Although ...
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