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In The Garden
Welcome To The Garden!
In this section we have choosen content to help you get started and stay motivated to keep and maintain a healthy garden. There is all types of gardening content here including composting, seed starting, cover crops, permaculture, aquaculture, hydroponics, salad gardening and much more.
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Summer Gardening Tips
by Michael J. McGroarty
Along with summer time comes high humidity. High humidity can cause a lot of problems with the plants in your garden and around your house. One of the simple things you can do is don't water just before dark. Make sure your plants are nice and dry when you tuck them in for the night and you can cut down of the chance fungus being a problem. . . .
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Spring Planting Tips
by Michael J. McGroarty
Spring means that the garden centers are packed with people, and car trunks are packed with plants. Everybody has dirt on their knees, dirt under their nails, and are excited about gardening. To make certain that this excitement yields positive results, let's discuss the basics in this article of spring planting tips. . . .
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Weed Control Facts, Winning the Battle of the Weeds
by, Michael J. McGroarty
Keeping your landscape plantings, flower beds, and nursery crops free of weeds is a battle, but if you approach it with a strategic plan, you will prevail. In order to develop a plan, you first must understand how weeds work, and what kind of weeds you are dealing with. . . .
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Organic Weed Control Using Corn
Kathy Anderson
Corn gluten works by preventing germinated seeds from growing a root. A plant that has already grown roots will not be affected by corn gluten. For the best results, the corn gluten should be applied early in the season, before the weed seeds germinate and grow roots. As a pre-emergent herbicide, corn gluten tends to have a cumulative effect and becomes even more effective on weed seeds with repeated applications over time. . . .
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Saving Seeds From Your Garden
Kathy Anderson
For many gardeners, the garden actually begins in January when the first seed catalog arrives in the mailbox. While the cold wind howls outside, we retire to a cozy chair and leaf through the catalog, carefully notating which varieties of lettuce and tomatoes to try and wishing we had the space to plant each and every flower so artfully displayed on its pages. . . .
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Prune and Trellis Your Tomato Plants To Achieve Higher Yields
Kathy Anderson
For many home gardeners, the tomato crop is often a source of pride. Gardeners often compete to see who can grow the earliest ripe fruit, the biggest or most flavorful tomato. The desire for perfect tomatoes sends many gardeners to their local garden centers in search of the latest potions or products that promise to help them achieve their goals. . . .
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Let's Grow Some Potatoes
Kathy Anderson
You may have heard old timers say that potatoes should always be planted on Good Friday. This old wives' tale is absolutely absurd. Good Friday does not fall on the same calendar date each year and can fall anywhere from early March to mid April. If folks in New England or the upper Midwest tried to plant potatoes on Good Friday, many years they'd be digging through rock-hard soil that was still frozen solid. . . .
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Planting Tomatoes In Your Garden
Kathy Anderson
Tomatoes are without a doubt one of the most popular vegetables in the home garden, and for good reason. Homegrown tomatoes are very nutritious and much more flavorful than those bought from a store. Tomato plants will produce an abundance of fruit for the home gardener if they are properly planted and cared for. . . .
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Building Raised Bed Gardens
Chef Keith Snow
In this article I discuss construction techniques and benefits of raised bed gardens. I have used raised bed gardens with much success. As long as they are built using the right materials and are the correct size raised bed gardening can be a delight. High yields and working without bending over as much are part of the enjoyment raised bed gardening can provide. . . .
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Composting in a Small Outdoor Space
Provided by The New York City Compost Project
backyard or side yard at all. This doesn't mean you can't compost -- it just means you'll have to pay special attention to your compost bin, to avoid attracting rodents and other vermin or creating any odors that will upset your landlord and neighbors. . . .
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Nine Steps To Hot Composting
By Jim McNelly, Earth 911
Active, hot composting is a BATCH process. It differs from passive piles that just "sit there" seemingly forever or "continuous flow systems" where stuff is periodically dumped on top of the material already in the bin and removed from the bottom when it is dark and crumbly. . . .
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Worm Composting Basics
By Eric Vinje, Planet Natural
Worm composting -- also known as vermiculture -- is the proverbial win-win situation. It gives you a convenient way to dispose of organic waste, such as vegetable peelings. It saves space in the county landfill, which is good for the environment. . . .
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Composting-A Skill You Need To Learn
Chef Keith Snow
One of the hallmarks of any successful garden is a good composting strategy. Learning how to start and maintain a compost pile will be a skill that you will need if gardening will be a part of your life. These short videos and other information will give you a good start for building your compost pile. . . .
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Starting Seeds Indoors-What You Need To Know
Chef Keith Snow
Starting seeds indoors is a basic tenet of gardening. Usually, novice gardeners start out buying plants from a nursery then replanting them in their gardens. As they get more experience they learn to start plants from seed. Starting from seed is MUCH less expensive then buying baby plants from a nursery operation. . . .
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Seed Sprouting Basics
Chef Keith Snow
As this country learns more and more about being self sufficient and enters the family of home gardeners, homesteaders and small farmers the topic of seed sprouting comes up. Sprouts are easy to produce, inexpensive and extremely nutritious. . . .
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Natural Bug Control-Does it Work?
Chef Keith Snow
This short video shows some basic ways to help control garden pests using natural means. I have tried some of these with limited success, other with more success. The second video shows how to use diatomaceous earth. . . .
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