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The Denton County Master Gardener Association will hold its annual plant sale at 6333 Hobson Lane in Denton from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday April 13.Shoppers can choose from a hard-to-find grasses and...
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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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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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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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I just dropped 3 figures at Target. So it is comforting to me to see that at least some small portion of the proceeds goes toward worthy causes like this Target Free weekend at Wave Hill.The Riverdale area of...
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Most people know that FLOTUS, the First Lady of the United States is an enormous advocate for eating and living healthy, and even has a garden at the White house to promote that goal – and also, just like the...
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July 4th in Zone 6 gardens, like those in Passaic County, New Jersey. The veggie garden looks wonderful, but beneath the surface there is trouble brewing. Squash bugs, potato beetles and other beetles of all sorts are plotting to pillage...
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Spicy hot foods are all the rage and nothing heats up dinner like the new varieties of chili peppers. The heat in pepper plants comes from a compound called capsaicin and the content of this chemical his risen dramatically in...
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Spring is here and with it comes the blooming of beautiful desert wildflowers.With over 600,00 acres, Anza Borrego Desert State Park is the largest state park in California and is one of the best places to see wildflowers...
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Wisdom of the mind is like flowers of the garden. The Gardener exists, ready for the flowers. It is there, a block of soil awaiting a seed to be sown. The beauty awaits the splendor of the...
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