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Apr 27 2016
Soil preparation for annual flowers is important. Take time to properly prepare your soil before you start planting your sunflowers, petunias, geraniums, or impatiens.
Research Articles
Apr 13 2016

One rutabaga, two rutabaga, three rutabaga, four, please tell me I will not have to eat, one rutabaga more!  As a cabbage/turnip cross and being…

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Mar 8 2016

Strap on your gardening tool belt, kick off shoes and socks and wriggle your toes in the grass and I do not mean artificial.  Before…

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Feb 21 2016

Don’t you just love to prune? Yard trees, shrubs, berries, hedges and, most of all, fruit and nut trees are calling you to get out…

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Feb 10 2016
This process will help get rid of aphids. But whatever you do, please avoid using any synthetic insecticides!
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Jan 18 2016

Wonderful, marvelous, vegetable seeds.

They evoke the promise of bountiful beans, beaming beets, crunchy carrots, smashing squash, and mouthwatering watermelons. Every year we peruse the…

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Jan 3 2016

A favorite time of year for me at our small nursery was bareroot season. My father built wooden open-top boxes that would hold the sawdust…

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Dec 5 2015

Communing with soil microbes is the order of the day.  We know a fraction of what these tiny animals do to aid in plant growth. …