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Perhaps I caught your attention with today’s topic, eh? After all, we gardeners love saving money in the garden, right? You can learn more about this in my column in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Saving money in the garden. On July 12, I posted a question on my Facebook page, asking folks to weigh in on what they do […]
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Take a look at this tomato seedling. I just planted it in the garden yesterday and am very pleased with the shape it’s in. I’m not posting this to brag. But, in my humble opinion, this is absolutely the perfect size tomato seedling for transplanting. You might recall that I mentioned a few weeks ago when I plant my tomato […]
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For today’s garden column, I thought it would be fun to write about some of the amazing cultivars of annual flowers available these days. Here’s a link to my column in The Spokesman-Review: Flowers bring beauty, birds, bees and butterflies to the garden. Or you can read my column below: Flowers bring beauty, birds, bees and butterflies to the garden […]
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If you’ve followed me for long, you know I am absolutely crazy about raised bed gardening! There are so many great attributes of this method of gardening, that I just had to share them in my column. You can read it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Raised beds offer bountiful benefits. Or you can read my column below. Column: […]
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As you know, my “Ultimate Seed Giveaway” ended on Friday night. And the winner is… drumroll please… Spring Truckey from Wisconsin! Woohoo! She will receive 11 packets of Botanical Interests seeds, all hand-picked by me. I know a lot of you are disappointed that you didn’t win, and I’m so sorry that I don’t have seeds for everyone. But I […]
Read moreWe all love giveaways, right? Well, if you love to grow vegetables or plan to grow them for the first this year, you’ll want to enter my Ultimate Seed Giveaway! For it, I’m partnering with my friends at Botanical Interests and have chosen a selection of awesome vegetable varieties as well as some glorious sunflower seeds to bring the pollinators to […]
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To borrow a line from Joan Rivers, can we talk? I’m sure many of you are thinking about starting your tomato plants in the next week or so. Let’s see a show of hands. Yup, a lot of you are getting ready to plunk tomato seeds into flats or pots. Well, if you live in a colder climate (i.e., zone […]
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The 2019 Seed Summit was a roaring success. What, you never heard about it? Well, that’s because it’s an annual event I hold with my best gardening buddies each January, so it wasn’t exactly in the news. But we gave it a name a few years ago and like to joke that the flags were raised and the delegates were […]
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Starting & Saving Seeds: Grow the Perfect Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs and Flowers for Your Garden by Julie Thompson-Adolf (Cool Springs Press, 2018, 160 pp., $25) Two of the most important and useful gardening skills are knowing how to start your plants from seed and saving seeds. Yet those two skills — especially the latter — are ones that many gardeners […]
Read moreAs a garden writer and a member of the professional organization, the Association for Garden Communicators, I occasionally receive seeds or product samples to test. (hey, it’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it) Last December, I received a cool package from Burpee Seeds that I wanted to tell you about. What they do is send out a type […]
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