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Using the “CVG’s Contest Winner Pickorama” it has determined that =*N*= is the winner of their choice of an earth friendly product from EcoSmart. Please contact my using the link in the header with the product you want and you contact information and I will pass the info to EcoSmart. Thanks for everyone that entered and for those who didn’t win check in the next couple hours for another…
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How to grow garlic in your garden
My experiment of planting organic garlic which I bought from my local produce section of my grocery store seems to be working well. If you want to try this yourself here are some hopefully easy to follow steps: Buy some good looking garlic at your grocery store (I chose organic since I made an assumption there was a decreased chance that it was treated to prevent growth) When you…
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Successive Pea Planting
Last year by 5 year old learned she likes to pick and eat fresh pea pods and was very diligent on harvesting new peas as she found them. Unfortunately this meant less peas for me. This year I am using successive planting to ensure I get my fill this year but also do not get overwhelmed with one big harvest all at once. I started the process about a…
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Do have have to follow the directions on the back of my seed packet?
Though the advice on the back of a seed packet gives some great information, they are recommendations and their advice may not exactly apply to your garden. First is row spacing, many times you read something like “plant seeds 3 inches apart in rows 1 foot apart” This brings up some immediate logic of why can the plants be 3 inches apart one way but 12 inches in another. …
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Hunting for spring at our local nurseries
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How to start a winter vegetable garden
width=”550″ height=”413″ /> Why let your gardening season end, with a little creativity there are many vegetables that can continue growing right through winter. I find this fun as wells of a rewarding challenge bringing in some great produce from my garden all year round. Choosing your winter vegetables First we need to determine what vegetables to grow, given temperature and lack of light will be a reality we…
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I love your blog- it’s really great!I poked a few onions in our garden and now we have really awesome Horton Hears a Who big poofy flowers!How do you know when to harvest the seeds from the flowers?
Emily, I should have taken some pictures when I did harvest them. Basically I waited until they looked really ugly (dead and brown). Since itwas my first time I did pinch a few pods open to confirm there were some viable seeds.After that, I threw them in a paper bag and forgot about them for a few months (couple weeks should be long enough but I literally forgot about them) they should be dry enough to seperate.