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Grow Your Own Seasoning Vegetables

Seasoning vegetables are the staple of any kitchen garden cook’s kitchen. Think about it. What would chili taste like without onions? Or, try making fresh tomato sauce and leave out the garlic. Trust me,...

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Garden cloches protect young seedling from harsh weather and pests. Image:(c)2008 Marye Audet90

Portable Garden Cloche

While glass cloches are a charming addition to any garden there are other, less expensive ways to accomplish the same thing. Empty gallon milk cartons, two liter soda bottles, and even chipped Mason jars can find a second life as a garden cloche.

1 comment    how to gardening vegetables
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Rose Bushes - Planting Pruning and Pictures

Carefree Beauty Ask someone to name a flower, and the first one that will most likely come to mind is a rose. Rose gardens are beautiful and abundant. Planted and pruned correctly, rose bushes will produce...

40 comments    gardening garden photo gallery
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Can I make a living from growing vegetables at home?

Picture courtesy of www.iheartcleveland.com So can I make a realistic and viable income from growing and selling my own vegetables from home, will it be worth the effort required, and will it generate an...

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Heated Propagator63

Extending The Growing Season

  If you are serious about growing your own vegetables as a hobby, a necessity, to save money, or to provide your own high quality organic produce, your main adversary is the growing season.   Lack of...

0 comments    food tips gardening
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Grow winter onions - Tips

In this day and age we're all trying to save money, and what better way to do this than growing your own vegetables. Gardening a couple of times a week burns calories and can help you lose weight and keep...

0 comments    home food tips
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Top This Sunflower

We grow 'em big here in the Pacific Northwest! One of the things I love here is our long growing season - balmy summers, lots of rain, mild winters. All factors for what really amounts to almost a 10 month...

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Mesquite Country

Today Fang wanted vanilla ice cream, chocolate fudge, and nuts. Now that sounds like a good start on a banana split to me. Of course, all the ingredients have to be sugar free and low in carbs. That makes...

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The Grand Tetons, a view from Idaho.  (c) Christa Dovel, 200671

High Mountain Gardening: Plant in the Fall for an Early Spring Harvest

Gardening in the mountains has a life of its own. The deep snow cover keeps the ground from freezing hard, allowing perennials from zone 5 to grow heartily, assuming it is only the roots that must survive the...

12 comments    how to tips gardening
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How to Grow Red Beets: a Healthy Vegetable.

  Red beets are a smart vegetable to raise in the home vegetable garden. They can be planted early in the spring and at intervals throughout the growing season. Both the tops and the bottoms of the...

0 comments    how to home food
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