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Growing Vegetables Indoors
As the winter months descend upon us all, it can be a bit depressing thinking about the layers of snow blanketing our growing spaces. While some vegetables will certainly do just fine in the colder [ … ]
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Scallions, The Never-Ending Onion!
There is something quite incredible and alluring about any recipe that starts with the instructions to chop up a few scallions. These sweet and tasty little members of the onion family add robust flavor to [ … ]
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Cover Crops: Green Gold For The Garden
I’m always looking for ways to improve the sandy, dry soil in my Colorado garden. I’ve hauled countless loads of manure from a nearby alpaca farm, and I keep a compost heap humming at the [ … ]
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Proper Plant Propagation – Part II
In this installment we will discuss the various types of layering, division, separation, grafting, and budding. Layering Plant stems, still attached to the parent, may form roots where they touch rooting medium. When severed from [ … ]
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Top 10 Dos and Don’ts for Fall Gardening
From the crisp mornings and yellowing leaves to football games and the start of another school year, there’s no denying that fall is in the air. While fall induces thoughts of warm apple pie, tailgate [ … ]
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Proper Plant Propagation, Part 1
When it comes to gardening and plant propagation, we usually talk about propagating by planting seed. However, there are several other types of propagation that we can use to continue specific plant varieties. They include [ … ]
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Seed Preservation – What You Should Know
For thousands of years people have been preserving seeds, and not just for consumption. Properly stored seeds ensure that farmers have seeds to plant new crops the following year, and they also ensure the survival [ … ]
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Winter Storage and Care for Strawberries
Strawberries are a great addition to any garden, but they do require special care and attention, especially in the winter. To keep your plants healthy and producing for many seasons, you will want to prepare [ … ]
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Fall Planting, Planning, and Preparations
While many of us think only of spring as planting time, there is much gardening to be done throughout fall. Officially, fall begins with the autumnal equinox, but a much better description of fall comes [ … ]
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Growing Garlic
Fall is coming, and now is the perfect time to think about cool weather planting. One of the hardy mainstays in the garden is garlic. Garlic is a member of the Allium (onion) family, and [ … ]