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Awesome Gardening tips and amazing things to see now in the garden

Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden---This week you will learn how to attract beneficial insects to your garden. There are a variety of common plants and flowers that attract beneficial insects....

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An Ardent Attentive Gardener

An Attentive Ardent Gardener Yesterday at a Father’s Day picnic, a fellow gardener was telling me that he was glad that all the seeds that he had started were planted in his garden. However he was...

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Old favorites

I have a picture hanging in my office. Five people stand stoically in front of a drab building amidst an even drabber landscape in what appears to be the late 1800's. Two details of that drab building scream...

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Summer fruit the tomato

With the explosive retail prices of organic tomatoes, along with the ease in growing them, you might well consider finding a sunny place in your yard or on your terrace or windowsill to grow a selection of ...

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Amazing Ideas for the garden

So much of the country is experiencing tremendously dry and extremely hot weather this beginning of July. Yet in my territory, in the northeast corridor of the United States, we have had an onslaught of cool,...

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Moving a garden and more gardening tips

When I asked you, to tell me about your experiences moving a garden, I was flooded with mail. Your letters were funny, warm, poignant, all speaking to the difficulty--physical and emotional--of leaving a...

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First Weekend of Summer

The Summer Solstice: Facts and Folklore---The summer solstice occurred yesterday Friday, June 20, at 7:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This astronomical event not only marks the beginning of summer, but June...

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Happy Father's Day

As I sit in my sunroom and peer out the window, I am thrilled to see blue skies and warmer weather. The summer garden is planted and I can sit back and enjoy the late spring garden. In June, our family...

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Taking pictures

Learn how to think small. "Think small!" That's hardly what our parents and teachers and other adults in our lives told us when we were growing up. But if you learn to think small in your own Backyard...

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Critters in the vegetables in the garden

Every garden has them – pests. And they come in all shapes and sizes. From small and slimy slugs to hungry four-legged Bambis and everything in between. While you can find an endless array of chemical...

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