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The other day, I suddenly realized that I hadn’t sprinkled MoleMax on our front flower bed. This wonderful repellent keeps gophers and voles from destroying our plants during the winter. When our landscape is covered by snow, lots of nefarious activity goes on underneath. Gophers chew on and eat plant roots. Voles chew mostly at the base of plant stems. […]
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Do you get cold easily? Do you dread having to do projects or tasks outside during the fall and winter months? Well, a heated vest might be just what you need. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism many years ago. Even though it’s manageable with medication, I’m always cold. Whether I’m indoors or outdoors, I’ve always had to put on a […]
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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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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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Winter sowing is the topic of this week’s video. And it just happens to be my third video of the 2024 gardening season. Some of you may be familiar with this unusual method of starting seeds. But this just might be the first time many of you have heard of it, however. Put simply, this is a method of starting […]
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When the weather gets colder in the fall, it’s easy to think the garden season is over and you can head indoors. Not so fast! In this week’s video, I take you along while I handle some important late season garden tasks. I’ll be bringing delicate garden art and glass rain gauges indoors so they won’t break from the freeze-thaw […]
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If you haven’t heard of winter sowing, you are in for a treat! After all, who wouldn’t love to plant seeds right now, in the dead of winter, and pull it off?! That’s the topic of my newest video and it is the coolest thing ever… no pun intended! Winter sowing involves planting seeds outdoors in containers, usually between December […]
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We’ve been having some wild, wintry weather since early November and it technically isn’t even winter yet! That got me to thinking about how beautiful the snow is. I grew up in Southern California so the “white stuff” has been a bit of a novelty for me. While some residents grumble about the snow, we are like little kids! For […]
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It’s time for my next video but it didn’t end up going the way I had planned! I had intended to talk about and demonstrate fall cleanup tasks. Apparently, Mother Nature had other plans. Bill and I were down in California for a weeklong family visit. The weather was lovely there for the most part. However, when I checked on […]
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I’ve got a brand-new video for you! The title is “Garden Clean-up & Update” and I wanted to share a lot of things that have changed in our veggie garden since you last saw it. As I’ve mentioned, Bill and I were out of town for 9 days, and even though we didn’t get any frosts while we were gone, […]
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