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Heirloom Potatoes in the Fall Garden

Heirloom potatoes are the old fashioned potatoes that gardeners have been growing for years. While commercial growers stick with one type, small gardeners can plants many varieties of heirloom potatoes and experience many different varieties.

3 comments    food fall garden
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5 Ways To Use A Green Tomato

Long ago when everyone raised their own food there were a multitude of recipes for using up the very last vegetables in the garden before frost. When frost was looming grandmother would pick the tomatoes...

8 comments    food garden vegetables
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Fall Vegetable Garden: Organic Produce For Winter

Here in Texas it is near 100 degrees on this August day. In some ways much too hot to be thinking of a fall garden yet in others, time is almost here to plant for late autumn and early winter harvest. Where...

4 comments    food organic autumn
Laying Down the Newspaper78

Make a New Garden Bed with Sheet Mulching

SHEET MULCHING is a fast, labor saving technique for building new planting beds and suppressing weeds. You may need a little mental tweak to think like a sheet mulcher. Instead of picturing what you need...

4 comments    home gardening compost
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Planting a Fall Garden with Cool Weather Crops

Because it is September many people think that the gardening season is over. Not so I say! Cool weather crops make gardening into the fall easy to do. So if you aren't tired of planting, weeding, watering and...

3 comments    home food gardening
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Fall Gardening in the Pacific Northwest

Fall gardening in the Pacific Northwest is when the hardwork, the backbreaking work begins. October can be still summer warm, in the 60's and 70's so just a little cleaning up, deadheading and raking of...

1 comment    plants mulching transplanting
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Putting Your Garden to Bed

The weather has changed not only are the hours of sunlight becoming less and less but there is a chill in the air that says Fall is in full swing and winter is on its way. It is time to put the garden to...

4 comments    advice how to gardening
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Ideal Transplanting Time

It's the ideal transplanting season! We’re heading into the ideal time for transplanting. If you want to relocate existing plants or extend your plantings with newly purchased plants, fall is the...

0 comments    gardening lifestyle daylilies
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Storm damage

– September 28, 2008 In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, save perhaps in Daffodil...

0 comments    gardening organic plants
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Quick flower bed overhaul

It is not too late to plant and redo your flower beds. Here is a neglected flower bed in my backyard that needs reworking. A hard frost at Halloween finished off the annuals in the bed. Here is a picture of...

0 comments    water plants flower
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