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Gardening is a popular pastime among people of all
ages and beliefs. It can be a seasonal endeavor or a year round
project. The cooler months provide a perfect time for planning the
next season's garden. These articles will help those planning their
garden for the spring, summer and fall growing seasons.
Saving Seeds from Your Garden
But have you ever wondered where your great-grandparents acquired
the seeds for their gardens, before there were seed catalogs and
fancy garden centers?
They saved seeds for the next year from their own gardens!
Which of the Hundreds of
Tomato Varieties Should I Plant
Tomatoes are such a staple in the modern diet that it
is hard to believe there was a time when this versatile fruit was
once thought to be poisonous. Thankfully this member of the
nightshade family has been known for centuries now to be a delicious
and healthful addition to our diet and is one of the most popular
garden vegetables.
How to Make a Weed Dabber
The tool that I am going to tell you about is for using herbicides
such as RoundUp. The biggest mistakes that people make when using
non-selective herbicides like RoundUp is over spray getting the
herbicide on plants that they did not intend to spray, and over
applying the product. If you spray to the point of run off, you are
applying way too much.
Companion
Planting
If you look closely at the natural landscape, you’ll never see a
large area populated by a single species. Why then would it make
sense to plant a single crop in a field or in a section of your
garden? It doesn’t. Companion planting makes a lot of sense.
The Indoor Garden: Plants that
Clean the Air
There are many reasons for creating an indoor garden
– significant among them is the need to clean the toxins from our
homes and offices. As a consequence of the energy crisis in the
1970’s, today’s homes and offices are built to conserve energy and
the outcome has been a lack of air exchange, with the resulting
increase of indoor air pollution.
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