Garden Catalogs: A Tall Order
The garden catalogs are coming. What do you expect from yours? Will it deliver? In the new year, gardeners everywhere will begin looking ahead. This going forward often includes a penchant for seed starting. We feed this craving by buying seeds ... [... more]
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Winter Gardening
Winter gardening takes many different directions where the snow falls and the cold wind blows. Lazy gardeners salivate over garden catalogs until spring returns. Unreconstructed gardeners fill out long lists, ordering from the same catalogs and ... [... more]
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How to Build A Miniature Indoor Greenhouse for Your Home
How to build an indoor greenhouse for germinating seeds and growing seedlings under artificial light. When the cold of winter has the northeast in its grip, the garden catalogs arrive and we are seduced by the myriad of offerings. For those of us ... [... more]
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Catalog Shopping for Northern Gardeners
Shopping from mail order plant and seed catalogs requires different considerations for northern gardeners than for those from more southerly regions. Here is the lowdown. Included is a resource for customer feedback from almost any garden catalog ... [... more]
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Banish The Winter Doldrums
Along about February, when Cabin Fever sets in, dramatic steps must be taken to retain one's sanity. One step is to pack one's bags and head for warmer climes to bask in the sun among palm trees. A second is to spread garden catalogs about and ... [... more]
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Forcing, Etc.: The Indoor Gardener's Guide to Bringing ...
 From Amazon.com: What's a dyed-in-the-wool gardener to do when faced with stubborn Old Man Winter's downright refusal to let much of anything grow? Force it, that's what. Forcing is the art of convincing a bulb, branch, houseplant, or cutting to flower [... more]
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The Well-Designed Mixed Garden: Building Beds and ...
From Amazon.com: Tracy DiSabato-Aust's Well-Designed Mixed Garden provides sound direction for plant lovers looking to free their garden from the doldrums and fashion a rich tapestry of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, vines, grasses, and bulbs. [... more]
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Forcing, Etc.: The Indoor Gardener's Guide to Bringing ...
From Amazon.com: What's a dyed-in-the-wool gardener to do when faced with stubborn Old Man Winter's downright refusal to let much of anything grow? Force it, that's what. Forcing is the art of convincing a bulb, branch, houseplant, or cutting to flower [... more]
CDN$18.95
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