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  1. Read this: The $64 Tomato

    Read this:  The $64 Tomato
    The $64 Tomato:  How One Man Nearly Lost His Sanity, Spent a Fortune, and Endured an Existential Crisis in the Quest for the Perfect Garden William Alexander, 2006 The paperback cover of The $64 Tomato quotes a line from the New York Times Book Review of the book:  “Gardening as an Extreme Sport.”  The reviewer […]
  2. Pruning Roses in the Winter

    Pruning Roses in the Winter
    Winter need not be the end of gardening, even if you live where snow flies.  In fact, once the ground is good and frozen, or your plants are fully dormant for the winter, it is time for pruning!  Woody plants that flower on new growth are good candidates for winter pruning.  If your plants flower […]
  3. Time to Order Seeds!

    Time to Order Seeds!
    It’s time for the seed catalogs to start arriving!  I look forward to opening my mailbox in January, which makes me different than about 99% of the population, I know.  I look forward to the glossy pictures and gardening dreams that arrive with my seed catalogs.  (My credit card bills are ever-present.  They aren’t any […]
  4. Greeting Cards that Grow

    Greeting Cards that Grow
    Recycled paper cards filled with seeds are presents in and of themselves.  If you love to garden and get the blues during the winter, here’s a gardening inspired craft to keep you busy and create works of art for your friends.  Make several of these at a time, and you will have a handy stash […]
  5. Houseplant Starts Make Great Gifts

    Houseplant Starts Make Great Gifts
    Use your green thumb to give gifts to your friends!  It is certainly easy to “snip snip” a few starts off a spider plant or sitck a trailing piece of pothos in a little bud vase.  It is nicer if you go ahead and root those starts yourself and pot them up in a cute […]
  6. Aphids in the salad? "They're a garnish!"

    Aphids in the salad?  "They're a garnish!"
    The morning my boyfriend broke up with me (the one I thought I would marry, though obviously that didn’t happen), I sat in the snow on my patio in Delaware and sobbed my eyes out, planting lettuce in a pot.  I was so upset, I couldn’t see straight, and the only thing I could think […]
  7. Now is the time for All-Season Deer Repellent

    Now is the time for All-Season Deer Repellent
    Winter is almost upon us, and with it, less tender vegetation for deer to eat.  In northern climes, leftover grain from harvests will soon be covered with snow.  What does that mean for avid gardeners?  All but your most prickly, foul tasting (at least, for deer), trees and shrubs become targets for hungry pests.  If […]

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