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Planting

10 Ways to Have Healthy Soil

Growing vegetables in your own garden is a great way to save money and eat more healthily. We grow our own veggies so that we will have fewer chemicals in our foods, but what we may not realize is our garden soil could be polluted. Here are ten quick ways to have healthy [...]

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10 Organic Gardening Tips

Organic gardening is the healthiest way to grow flowers, fruits and vegetables. Imagine eating your homegrown fruits and vegetables,  whole foods free of any harmful pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers!
As a bonus, organic gardening is environmentally sound, keeping those toxins out of the soil and water supply.  Here are a few organic gardening tips to [...]

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How to Divide Daylilies

If you’re looking for a drought resistant, long lived, hardy  and easy to care for perennial to solve some of your landscaping problems, then daylilies (Hemerocallis spp) may be just what you’re looking for. With their arching sword like leaves and large trumpet shaped blooms, they can be a border, an accent, or a filler [...]

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Kale

Kale – Beautiful and Nutritious
Kale may be just what your garden needs. Are you looking for a plant that has multiple faces – nutritionally rich, easy to grow, and beautiful enough to use as an ornamental? Kale fits the bill on all counts.
Although we hear more about kale today than a few years ago, and [...]

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How to Make Your Gardening Easier

Gardening is enjoyable, rewarding, relaxing… and hard work. There is always something to do – watering, weeding, planting, harvesting.
Most gardeners enjoy the time they spend working in their gardens, but there comes a point when garden tasks can pile up, making you can just a little overwhelmed. Here are some gardening and planning tips can [...]

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Companion Planting – Does it Work?

Companion planting is a method of growing plants together, with the idea that they will benefit each other in some way.
But, just as we have good neighbors, there are bad neighbors as well. Some plants really dislike each other, and shouldn’t be planted in close quarters, as it may cause one to perform poorly or [...]

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Gardening With Rock

Gardening with rock was a natural for us as we landscaped our property. We live on a rock – a sandstone based island with thin soil, towering firs and cedars, salal too thick to beat your way through. Our house is built upon and pinned to the solid bedrock that is never far from the [...]

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Seven Essential Culinary Herbs

There are seven essential culinary herbs that everyone should grow, whether its in the garden or in containers. These seven are the ones most used in cooking, and by growing them yourself, you’ll add flavor to your meals as well as saving money.
Historically, herbs have been used as remedies for illness, flavoring foods, storing with [...]

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