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New Orleans Vegetable Trials Yield Big Results
The Louisiana Master Gardeners make the most of cool weather with their plantings at the New Orleans Botanical Gardens. Educational programs like these help vegetable gardeners with their spring plantings.
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Kitchen Gardening
Tortilla Soup–Comfort Food
There is nothing like a bowl of nourishing hot soup on a cold winter day, especially a grey, damp rainy day that sort of seeps into the bones in your…
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Kitchen Gardening
Celebrating America’s First Gardeners
In honor of Presidents’ Day, here’s a salute to America’s First Vegetable Gardeners. The gentlemen farmers, like President Thomas Jefferson, were passionate plantsmen who helped lead a nation with politics…
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Snow: Poor Man’s Fertilizer
Is this familiar adage an old wive’s tale? In fact, snow does contain nitrogen and other particulates like sulfur, which it collects as it falls through the atmosphere, however so…
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Kitchen Gardening
Chocolate Tomatoes are a Sweet Garden Surprise
Do you want to give chocolates and flowers to your sweetie for Valentine’s Day? Instead of a box of chocolates and a dozen roses, try these chocolate tomatoes for a…
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Kitchen Gardening
Seeds
If you haven’t ordered your garden seeds for 2018, now is the time. As I sit by the woodstove looking out on another grey, cold day, the precipitation is coming…
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Winter Musings
We have had very cold weather this month and now we have warmed up just a bit--enough to tease us--and make us think spring is in the air. Not. However…
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Container Gardening Complete for Small Vegetable Gardens
Small-space vegetable gardeners will surely want to try the many creative projects in Jessica Walliser’s new book. If you’d like to learn how to plant a bean trellis bin, a…
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Kitchen Gardening
Plant these Vegetable Winners for Garden Success
The All-America Selections trial judges do all the work, and vegetable gardeners reap the rewards. Smart gardeners will look for these vegetable winners to plant in their gardens this season.
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Tools for the New Year
Here are a few gifts that I ask for every year--as well as a few new tools that I received this holiday season. These are items that I find essential…