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Growing a Salad Garden

Growing a salad garden is easier than you think. Most salad greens are quick growing and ready to harvest just 4 to 6 weeks from seeding. They can be grown in garden beds or containers, with the majority thriving in the cooler temperatures of spring and fall, although there are also plenty of heat-tolerant greens [&hellip

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The monarch butterfly host plant: Milkweeds and how to grow them from seed

Winter doesn’t necessarily seem like the best time to be starting seeds outdoors in most of North America, but for one very valuable group of plants – the milkweeds – winter is the perfect time to get planting. In case you aren’t familiar with this particular group of plants, milkweeds are in the genus Asclepias, [&hellip

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10 plants with showy blooms

Sassy, flashy, frilly, flouncy. I was trying to think of some good descriptors that connect all the flowers I’m about to talk about. I decided on showy, which means impressive and ostentatious. Because these plants are not meant to be wallflowers, gently fading into the rest of the garden. They are meant to stop you [&hellip

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7 of the Best Vegetable Gardening Books

I’m always on the lookout for the best vegetable gardening books, and each year, I add several new titles to my collection. At this point, I have dozens and dozens of books dedicated to food gardening. It’s true that there are a lot of fantastic books on vegetable gardening available at local bookshops as well [&hellip

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Organic fertilizers for container gardening: The best choices for success

When it comes to organic fertilizers for container gardening, you have two basic choices: granular or liquid. Let’s talk about each of them in detail.  This post is an excerpt from Container Gardening Complete by Jessica Walliser Complete Granular Fertilizers for Container Gardening There are dozens of different brands of complete granular fertilizer blends. Most [&hellip

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Organic Fertilizers for Container Gardening: The Best Choices for Success

***This contest has ended. No more entries are being accepted. See below for winners’ names.*** To celebrate the release of Savvy Gardening contributor Jessica Walliser‘s newest book, Container Gardening Complete (Cool Springs Press, 2017), we’re giving away two copies of this beautiful book!! One winner will be selected from U.S. entrants and another from Canadian [&hellip

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Book giveaway and excerpt from Container Gardening Complete by Jessica Walliser

To celebrate the release of Savvy Gardening contributor Jessica Walliser‘s newest book, Container Gardening Complete (Cool Springs Press, 2017), we’re giving away two copies of this beautiful book!! One winner will be selected from U.S. entrants and another from Canadian entrants. But before you enter the contest, we wanted to share a sneak peek of what [&hellip

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Zucchini growing problems: 10 common issues and how to overcome them

Zucchini and other soft-skinned summer squashes are usually pretty easy to grow. But, gardeners do sometimes face struggles with these productive crops. Perhaps your vines stopped producing in mid summer? Or the fruits were small or deformed? Or maybe your plants simply died before producing any fruits? If you found yourself asking why zucchini growing [&hellip

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Easy projects for mini holiday houseplants

Last year, as I was pushing my cart around a local garden centre, trying to decide between an amaryllis and paperwhites, I discovered something sitting among a table of poinsettias: a mini poinsettia! I brought it home and popped it into a tealight candle holder and thus started my obsession with miniature houseplants. This year, [&hellip

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Plant an Herb Garden for a Kitchen Window

There are so many reasons to grow herbs indoors; they add garden-fresh flavor to food, fragrance and greenery to indoor spaces, and because packages of fresh herbs are expensive to buy at the supermarket, growing your own can save you money. It’s easy to create an herb garden for a kitchen window when you start [&hellip

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