Gardening

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  • Controlling critters in your desert garden

    Gardening in the desert is challenging not only because of the heat, but with your garden being the tastiest thing for miles, you will be vying for produce with all of the hungry desert critters that live here too. In...

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  • How to save bean seeds

    How to save bean seeds (Video)

    Growing extra beans for seed saving is easy and a good way to be self sufficient. You’ll have best success at harvesting seed if you sow a few extra plants with your first planting of beans and leave...

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  • You can grow potatoes too!

    Pass me a spud, Bud!

    Potatoes! Mashed, baked, and fried; in yummy potato salads and in many forms and combinations they are one of the world’s staple crops coming in fourth after wheat, maize and rice. Here in Passaic County New Jersey and...

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  • Container Gardening

    Vegetables to grow in containers

     Container Vegetable Gardening     Are you thinking of growing some vegetables in a container? Living in an apartment? Perhaps your past container gardens were not all you had hoped?  Container gardening can be a challenge, a...

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  • Beans, the age old legume

    Beans, as popular now as they were 10,000 years ago

    Beans are one of the first opportunistically gathered crops to be cultivated by humans, perhaps as far back as 10,000 years ago. Their deliberate cultivation indicates the boundary of man’s development from pure hunter gatherer to a...

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  • Rosa 'Salet'

    Northland Rosarium 2013 schedule

    Northland Rosarium,  our local growers of hardy, own root roses, has announced their schedule of 2013 events and seminars.Opening Day is this year is April 17, 2013. This year, open hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p...

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  • Colorful peppers

    Multi colored peppers add beauty to the garden; these should be started now

    Sweet peppers, tasty and versatile bring a blaze of bright color to the home garden. Those gardeners who wish to start their own peppers from seed indoors should probably start right now to enjoy a late summer rainbow.Sweet peppers...

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  • Hydrangea

    Caring for hydrangeas

    The hydrangea is a popular plant among gardeners, for the ease of care and beautiful, long lasting blooms they boast during the summer months.  The key to growing hydrangeas is to know which type of plant will thrive in...

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  • Tips for planting your desert vegetable garden

    April is National Gardening Month, and for the Tucson area, that means its time to plant warm weather crops. If you have not yet set out tomato, pepper and eggplant plants, do so as soon as possible. Planting now ensures...

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  • List of idea's for the exterior space (Photos)

    List of idea's for the exterior space (Photos)

    Qualify the outdoors with extending the interiors to the exterior making the outdoor comfortable for personal enjoyment.In addition, to planting which is most desired, to inviting butterflies, sparrows and other wildlife that is acceptable.To rearranging things to make...

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