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Herb Gardening With Culinary Herbs, Ornamental Herbs And Medicinal Herbs

JB — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:46:11 +0000

By Mary Hanna

Herb gardening has been around for centuries and the joys of an herbal garden is well know to many gardeners. Even beginner gardeners can have a high quality of success by starting with the basics and working their way up to a more complicated herbal garden. You can plant

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Why You Should Garden – (very old advise, still valid for today)

JB — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 06:41:27 +0000

There are more reasons to-day than ever before why the owner of a small Place should have his, or her, own vegetable garden. The days of home Weaving, home cheese-making, home meat-packing, are gone. With a Thousand and one other things that used to be made or done at home, They have

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Moon Gardening: Planting By Moonlight

JB — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 03:37:31 +0000

By Gene DeFazzio

Moon Phases and Planting

Planting by the phases of the moon is a method of cultivation as old as agriculture and civilization. Based both in tradition and superstition, the character and growth traits of plants were seen to vary with the phases of the moon. Through the corridors of

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Culinary Herb Gardening

JB — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:37:08 +0000

By Jeff Slokum

There is nothing more pleasing than walking right outside your kitchen door and finding all the spices you’ll need for a tasty and fresh dinner. How about picking a bit of rosemary for those lamp chops, or cutting a bit of that fresh dill for that flounder you’re baking,

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Spring Flower Gardening

JB — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:01:28 +0000

By Linfa Jenkinson

Spring is the time when nature and your garden awakes and comes alive after the long winter. That first spring flower or that first green leave is the sign that winter in coming to an end and that a new growing season has arrived.

Spring and Flower gardening is

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Wind Chimes Go Great With Gardening

JB — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:26:56 +0000

By Lee Dobbins

What could be more relaxing than gardening on a nice summer morning? Listening to your wind chime while you garden! Wind chimes are not only fun to look at but they add much more to your garden then just visual appeal.

Wind chimes have tones and vibrations that soothe

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A Few New Plants And Vegetables To Try

JB — Sun, 15 May 2011 21:20:27 +0000

If you’re tired of the same old plants and vegetables in your garden, here are a few new varieties to try.

Begonia Eureka–This plant is designed for superior garden performance and is available in several colors ranging from green to bronze. These grow especially well in heat and humidity.

Begonia “Super Olympia”

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Vegetable & Herb Gardening for June

JB — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 07:17:44 +0000

Vegetables

Aphid numbers are still high now on a wide variety of landscape and garden plants. It is usually not necessary to spray insecticides or release beneficials to control aphids. Populations of lady bird beetle, green lacewings and wasp parasites build up quickly to keep aphids in check. You’ll see these predators

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Grow Transplants Successfully

JB — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:04:16 +0000

How many times have you tried to get an early start on your garden by growing transplants inside only to give up in frustration because you could not get the right combination for success?

Growing transplants can be a bit tricky if you don’t have all the ingredients you

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Blueberries Make Beautiful, Delicious Fall Landscape

JB — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:30:37 +0000

When pondering what to plant in your yard or garden this fall, consider blueberries, says Mary Beth Musgrove, Alabama Cooperative Extension System horticulturist.“Rabbiteye blueberries are one of the most delicious fruits grown in the South,” says Musgrove. “They are also one of the easiest fruits to grow. They are beautiful, produce delicious fruit

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