If you are gardening with a hose that is filled with lead and BPA – a standard American garden hose…
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Organic Control Of The Japanese Beetles
Want a Japanese beetle? I have about 2 million of the shiny, metallic green creatures. They have copper-colored wing covers…
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Phenomenal Lavender Salmon Rub Recipe from Peace Tree Farm
My dear friends, Lloyd and Candy Traven are the owners of Peace Tree Farm, a haven of professional environmentally-friendly greenhouses on…
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Spectacular Fairy Garden Planting Container
When I met Denise English from Eco Personal Garden at the Independent Garden Center Show in Chicago and she had…
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Winter Garden Art Installation
Winter. It’s killing me. Beyond hurting my osteoarthritis and making me cold, winter is dark and dank in the northern…
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Winter Conservatory Tour Biltmore Estate
In the cold silence of winter, when we feel isolated from one another and arthritis pain and depression are pulling…
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Office Desk Hack
When I visited Shirley Bovshow this season, I loved going to her garden-themed office and teaching facility near Los Angeles,…
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Garden Clogs – A Review
I’m a huge fan of rain boots in the garden, but garden clogs have an advantage over the boots of…
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Recycle an Iron Arbor
**This arbor story is a recycled post from 2010. I recently had a reader ask me to post it again…
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How To Plant a Bulb with a Drill
Right now across the United States it is the season to plant bulbs and I have a solution to make…
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How To Dry Herbs
An herb garden is a reflection of beauty and is intricately tied to food and family, it seems a good…
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Best Self-Watering Garden Container
Self-watering garden containers – I have been sent dozens of them to try by various manufacturers and have covered a…
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How To Plant a Butterfly Weed Video
Last season I wrote about the butterfly weed and how to plant it. Please go HERE FOR THE LINK and…
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3 Tips to Prevent Blossom End Rot
As soon as I recovered from the evil Japanese beetles, I look out and see my tomatoes with Blossom End…
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Living Wall Cone Container Garden How To
Looking for a new garden project, but have the mid-summer can’t-find-the-perfect-plant blues because the garden centers are cleared out? I…
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