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The Water-Smart Garden: Techniques & Strategies For Conserving, Capturing & Efficiently Using Water in Today’s Climate… and Tomorrow’s by Noelle Johnson (aka AZPlantLady) Review by Susan Mulvihill As someone who grew up in California and lives in Arizona, Noelle Johnson knows about conserving water. Most of us understand that we should all reduce our water use. And I’m sure everyone […]
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Did you watch my beet video last week? That was the first crop I featured in my new video series. This week’s video focuses on how to store carrots so they’ll last a long time for you. Then I discuss a lot of wonderful ways of cooking carrots. This includes using them in baked goods and savory dishes. I think […]
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Today is the start of my new series of videos called “You Grew It, What To Do With It!” And beets are the crop I focus on this week. For years, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how we store or preserve our crops. I’m often asked how we cook certain crops. I’ve decided to cover this topic […]
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I’m always sad when the growing season comes to a close. But boy, did I learn a lot this year! In my newest video, I share my top garden takeaways. It’s so important to take the time to reflect on how the garden season went. This includes successes and failures, although I prefer to call the latter “learning experiences!” That’s […]
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I don’t know about your weather, but fall is getting serious here in Spokane, Wash.! It got me to thinking about fall gardening and what I’ve learned you should or shouldn’t do right now. I love this time year, especially because of the beautiful fall colors. And having the garden wind down is also nice because I’ve worked hard all […]
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Well, I knew our garden would soon be impacted by some fall frosts and that’s exactly what happened. We vegetable gardeners always hate when that happens, right? And to make matters worse, they occurred while Bill and I were on a 2-week trip in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Fortunately, I had done a lot of harvesting and processing […]
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This year has been a real challenge for gardeners everywhere. Primarily, the problem has been the weather extremes, which have caused some tomato problems that I don’t ordinarily encounter. For the most part, tomatoes and other crops have been very slow to ripen. The two main tomato problems have been damage from tomato fruitworms and catfacing. Let’s take a look […]
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I recently returned from the Garden Communicators International conference, held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to seminars and presentations, we visited many public and private Grand Rapids gardens. They were so inspiring! I thought it would be fun to take you along on a tour through a photo slideshow. Here are the public gardens you’ll see in this video: […]
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When September arrives, we vegetable gardeners tend to feel a bit overwhelmed. There are so many crops to pick. In this week’s video, I share all sorts of harvest tips. It’s my hope they’ll take the mystery out of knowing when to pick them! If you’ve been following my weekly videos, you know this has been a very challenging growing […]
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Three weeks ago, I shot a video about planting a fall garden. Unfortunately, it was still too warm to plant my fall crops. I finally was able to plant them just in time for this week’s video. Whew! You’ll get to see everything I planted and learn some helpful tips along the way. In the initial video, I gave all […]
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