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Double Duty Okra Flowers and Vegetables
Even if you don't eat okra, consider growing the plant just for the blooms.
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Ways to Preserve Tomatoes and Peppers
Celebrate the grand garden season finale. Here are some faster, space-saving methods to harvest and store garden produce at its best.
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New hardy hibiscus
Look for these new perennials: hardy hibiscus with giant 8" flowers and summer-long blooms. Bring exotic pinks, dark red, lavender and rose colors to containers, foundations and small space gardens.
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Use Vinegar or Baking Soda to Kill Weeds
Keep sidewalks and driveways weed-free all summer. Try these simple and safe remedies as weed and grass killers.
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Best chocolate zucchini cake
Solving zucchini overload. Make two cakes. Eat one, freeze one. Repeat. And repeat again. And again. Kids will love eating their vegetables with this moist, chocolatey cake.
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How to cook and peel hard boiled eggs
Never boil another egg. Learn how to peel eggs perfectly every time. Use eggs as a protien source to complete lighter seasonal meals.
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What Is Wrong With My Tomato Plant? 5 Common Problems
This article will guide you through the five worst tomato problems and how to prevent them.
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Container plants that can take the heat
How to select the best plants for the hottest weather. These portable plants attract birds and butterflies. When planting for summer color, consider the view from inside your house.
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Build a Raised Bed Garden: Quick, Easy, Cheap
Time to build a 4' x 4' concrete block raised bed. Make this a fall project. Add leaves and grassy material throughout the cool seasons. Get a jump on spring with your new raised bed.
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How to Grow a Spaghetti-Sauce Themed Garden
Grow all the vegetables and herbs needed for the best fresh and canned spaghetti sauce. Know where your food comes from and what's really in it. Start with this pasta sauce.
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The Real Dirt on Potting Soil
Soilless Potting Soil. Is it better than garden soil? What you need to know whether mixing your own potting soil or buying bagged.
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Starting tomatoes from seed
Are you ready? It's time! In the coldest and ugliest of winter, when you are desperate to see Something - Anything grow, start big juicy tomatoes from seed. Here's how.
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Grow Tarragon for French Recipes and Herb Vinegar
Tarragon is fragrant, tasty and good for you. Make gourmet herb vinegar for pennies with just two ingredients. Recipes for French Tarragon Chicken, sleep inducing tea and home grown Herbes Fines.
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Why Black-Eyed Peas Mean Good Luck
Eating black eyed peas is a fun family tradition in the South now. But once eating cow peas, Southern peas or black eyed peas was a matter of survival.
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Grow Organic Onions
Sow onion seed in flats six weeks before the last frost date in your area. All alliums are heavy feeders and require plenty of water. Get new tips for scallions, leeks, chives, onions and shallots
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Fall garden clean up
A few extra steps in the fall will put you weeks ahead in the spring. Try these simple low cost or no cost suggestions. That will mean less work and more vegetables for you.
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Bacon and tomato quiche
Easy and Elegant. Easy enough to throw together for tonight's meal or, elegant enough for company brunch. Red & golden heirloom tomatoes will make this recipe your specialty.
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Keep squirrels and rabbits out of your garden
At Last! Pet friendly pest control. Stop tomato stealing squirrels. Keep rabbits from eating all the tender green bean seedlings.
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How to Grow and Harvest Organic Garlic
Plant in the fall. Add a fresh layer of compost as garlic starts growing quickly in the spring. Garlic is ready for harvest by midsummer. Gentle harvesting will extend the garlic's longevity.
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How to Stake, Cage, or Pen Tomato Vines
Proper staking or support is required for big, beautiful tomatoes. Here's my review of the best supports for every type of tomato vine.
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How to identify and save seed
Make it a habit to label plants. We show you how and where to find attractive labels. Arrange seed in the order in which it will be planted.
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Pinching Terminal Buds for Better Plant Growth
Pinching will not make plants healthier or more flavorful. It will encourage a fuller, bushier plant with more flowers and leaves.
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Rid Your Garden of White Flies
White flies will seriously damage a plant and cold weather solves the problem. Several organic controls are listed.
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Beautiful white flowers, shrubs, and lilacs
Pure and perfect white spring flowering trees, shrubs, perennials.
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Spring veggies, what to plant first
What to grow first. Cool season suggestions for the earliest garden. Raised beds and container gardens mean a 1 or 2 week head start. Grow mixed spring greens, wilted lettuce or baby spinach salads.
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How to harden off tomato plants
"Harden off" tomato plants to prevent transplant shock and sunburn.
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Seed Starters for Cheapos and Righteous Environmentalists
Plant the potted seedlings right into the garden for healthier transplants. Turn toilet paper rolls into seed starting pots. Jump start seedlings with ready made compostable containers.
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Eat Indigo Rose Blue Tomatoes
From fighting cancer to fighting wrinkles, anthocyanins are regarded as one of the best reasons to eat deep colored fruits and vegetables. More than a novelty, blue foods are healthier and beautiful.
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Potato Leaf or Regular Leaf Tomato Varieties Plants, which is Best?
A guide to potato leaf and regular leaf tomato plants. Choose angora or rugose leaf tomatoes.
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Understanding Tomato Tags. Labels explained.
What does VFTNA, F1, determinate mean on the tomato tag? It's easy to understand. Here's how to read the label on a tomato.
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Seed starting, growing and storing Basil
Be a gourmet gardener and grow several basil varieties. Begin with seeds, starter plants or cuttings. These beautiful plants grow well in gardens, containers and hanging baskets and window boxes.