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Vegetable Gardening

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 Get Rid of Garden Slugs Naturally

Have you noticed little silvery trails on some of your chewed plant leaves? You just may have slugs in your garden.
Slugs can be a big problem when it comes to plants and vegetables.  As vegetable gardeners, we hate to see the fruits of our labor destroyed by slugs.  If you’re gardening organically, getting rid of [...]

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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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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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Asparagus – Spring’s First Fresh Green

Aah! Spring’s first fresh asparagus – delicious fresh from the garden, lightly steamed, and served with a little butter! Rich in B vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, and iron, asparagus is often the first spring vegetable that you can harvest. Asparagus is a long-lived perennial, that can give you that fresh taste of spring for up [...]

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