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How to Keep Your Early Spring Plant Purchases Alive!

How to Keep Your Early Spring Plant Purchases Alive!

The back seat of your car is chock-full of plants. Yippee!! But, it’s still April… uh oh. Now what?? Box-stores,…
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Now is the Time to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Planting

Now is the Time to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Planting

It’s April and it’s time to start thinking about preparing your gardens for spring planting. While we’re still a week…
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13: How to Ripen and Harvest Vegetables from Your Garden

13: How to Ripen and Harvest Vegetables from Your Garden

Fall is just around the corner and if your garden is anything like mine, you’re seeing lots of green tomatoes…
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Podcast #8 Succession Planting: How to Grow More!

Podcast #8 Succession Planting: How to Grow More!

Want to get the most out of your garden this year? Of course you do — and you can with…
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How To Extend Your Gardening Season with a Low Tunnel

How To Extend Your Gardening Season with a Low Tunnel

Just because the calendar says “fall” doesn’t mean that the gardening season has to come to an end. On the…
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Episode #2: How to Extend Your Garden Season; Plus Planting Fall Garlic

Episode #2: How to Extend Your Garden Season; Plus Planting Fall Garlic

In Podcast Episode 2, I share a few ideas on how you can extend your gardening season into late fall…
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🍂Leaves! If you're lucky enough to have them, use 🍂Leaves! If you're lucky enough to have them, use them in your garden! Shredded or chopped, they are a fantastic, organic, FREE, mulch material.

🌬️ They'll protect your soil from winter erosion and compaction, and help insulate the soil.

🪱 Leaves also provide food for soil organisms...which show up rather quickly!

Don't bag them, use them! Your garden soil will thank you. 🍁🤎

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#fallleaves
#gardenmulch
#leavetheleaves
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