Grow - Fine Gardening
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How-To
Tips for Growing Hot Peppers
Peppers are native to the tropics, which explains why they thrive in warm weather. As tempting as it is to get a jump-start on the gardening season, do not plant…
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Kitchen Gardening
Perfect Pickled Peppers: Recipes for the Garden
Pepper plants will keep producing as long as you keep picking the produce. Pickling is an easy way to preserve the flavor of freshly picked peppers.
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How-To
Building a Raised Bed, Part I
This video goes over the advantages raised beds offer, as well as what you will need to build one.
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Article
Winter Musings–the Year Ahead
Today is the full wolf moon as well as a penumbral lunar eclipse. We are into the cold winter months of January and February--although our days are now lengthening. Time…
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Article
Season’s Greenings: America’s Gardens at USBG
As always, the winter holiday exhibit at the U.S. Botanic Garden is worth seeing. This year the theme was botanic gardens from Hawaii to Maine--which made me want to visit…
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Article
Welcoming the New Year
Take advantage of the nice weather and get out there and walk or gather kindling or get an outdoor chore done. Some benefits of being out in nature are increased…
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Article
Books for Gardeners, Foragers and Cooks
I am a confessed bibliophile; I love books. I enjoy reading and learning and try to spend time everyday with a book. Currently, I am reading/perusing at least six books.…
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Article
Gift Ideas for the Gardener
Why not give the gardeners in your life a useful gift that they will use and appreciate? here are a few ideas for gardeners who like to cook and cooks…
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Kitchen Gardening
Rosemary is Still Rosemary Despite Name Change
Rosemary by any other name is still rosemary, unless the Royal Horticultural Society decides to change its name. What will its scientific name change mean for vegetable and herb gardeners…
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Article
What’s Cooking? Preserving? Fermenting? Infusing?
Tis the season; Thanksgiving Day officially sets off the holiday season! Today is an over-hyped day referred to as "Black Friday"--something that I am totally not involved in--other than to…