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How-ToRejuvenate Your Strawberry Patch
There is nothing quite like a warm strawberry picked ripe from your own garden, but not everyone has success with strawberry plants every year. Sure, plunking a strawberry plant in…
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How-ToA Potting Table with a Twist
It’s not easy being the carpenter son of a garden-center owner. It seems as if every year my mother asks me to build something crazy that she has seen in…
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DesignPlants for Property Lines
We have all seen it: the line of arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis and cvs., USDA Hardiness Zones 2–7) marching down the property line, stiff as can be, their heads lopped off…
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ArticleWhat’s Wrong with My Veggies?
It never fails. Each year, I’ll be working on the East End Community Organic Farm on Long Island, and a gardener will call out to me from a nearby plot.…
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Kitchen GardeningBuild Your Own Wheelie Bin Composter
This composter turns a garbage bin into a moveable compost machine.
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Kitchen GardeningFloating Row Cover and Grow Tunnels Extend the Growing Season
Although summer has gone and fall is here, it does not mean the end of the growing season. By using floating row cover or a grow tunnel covered with it--you…
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Kitchen GardeningRaised Bed Installation & Building Tips
Putting in a raised bed garden? Here are some “builders tips” to make the project easier.
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ArticleWelcome Fall–Celebrate the Autumnal Equinox
It's that time of year again already--the summer has come and gone--and today we celebrate the official arrival of autumn. There is still lots to do in the garden...
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How-ToTraining Grapevines on an Arbor
Form a sheltering canopy by guiding the vines to the top and pruning them annually
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ArticleSummer Salad, Nicoise-Style
Summertime and the living is easy--supper time involves as little cooking as possible--and preparing something simple with garden produce. Here is a recipe for an easy salad, Nicoise-style, using whatever…
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