Share my passion for all things gardening!
We all love cooking with garlic, right? Well, did you know it’s easy to plant garlic and end up with a fabulous harvest? Find out how in this week’s video. I’ll start by showing you how to prepare your planting bed and plant the cloves. Then you’ll learn the differences between soft-neck and hard-neck garlic. I’ll also cover the best […]
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I get a lot of questions about how to prune raspberries so that’s the topic of this week’s video. And I included blackberries as well, since their pruning method is very similar. You will learn some very interesting things about the two main types of raspberries, which are summer-bearing and fall-bearing. Once you know which type you’re growing, you will […]
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I just love this time of year! To celebrate it, I shot a video showing the type of plants that provide us with beautiful fall colors. In it, you’ll see the trees, shrubs and perennials that add beauty to the landscape when other plants are winding down. There is something you need to know, however. When we first bought our […]
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There are a lot of different types of fall garden tasks that we should be doing. And that is the topic for this week’s video! In it, I cover both vegetable garden and ornamental garden projects you’ll want to take care of. These include harvesting green tomatoes before you get a frost. The timing on harvesting potatoes. Checking over your […]
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My favorite aspect of gardening is that I’m always learning new things. Plant propagation is one of them. In this week’s video, I show you how to propagate lavender from cuttings. Why propagate your own plants? Well, how does FREE sound? It’s a great way to stretch your gardening dollars, plus you can share plants with friends. I actually wrote […]
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Here it is Sept. 7 and there’s so much going on in the garden these days! In this week’s video, I share lots of helpful vegetable garden tips. They include when to harvest winter squash and pumpkins, and how to cure them prior to storage. If you haven’t heard of the “curing” term, here’s how it works. After harvesting squash […]
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In this week’s video, I get to harvest tomatoes from my garden. And that’s what this time of year is all about, right? We’re all harvesting the bounty from the plants we so lovingly have tended throughout the spring and summer. But before I started to harvest tomatoes for this video, I wanted to cover something really important. What’s that, […]
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What a treat to tour so many Minnesota gardens! Bill and I traveled to Minneapolis to attend the Garden Communicators International conference. During it, we toured a lot of public and private gardens that were filled with amazing plants and wonderful inspiration. For the second half of the trip, we visited my side of the family. That was so much […]
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I’ve been on vacation! Now that I’m back, I have shot a new video for you. I felt it was high time I took you on a vegetable garden tour. After all, we’re already past the halfway point of August, right? In it, you’ll see how our tomatoes, butternut squash, pole beans, cabbage, broccoli and watermelons are doing. As always, […]
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It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by our harvests this time of year, isn’t it? Everything is coming quickly and it’s hard to keep up with it all. I decided to focus this week’s video on tips for preserving beans, zucchini and berries. The best part of all is that you won’t need any special equipment to do this! For example, […]
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