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The Best Ways to Use Grass Clippings in Your Garden

Maintaining a traditional green grass lawn is a year-round process, with mowing typically being the most time-consuming task. Not only does this involve cutting the grass, but it also means figu...

May 2023

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You Should Install Real Drip Irrigation This Year

Drip irrigation systems make sense on a number of levels. Because you're watering exactly where you need to, you're watering as much as 70% less. That's because, as you hand water, a lot of what you'r...

May 2023

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You Should Hand-Pollinate These Fruits and Veggies to Grow More

Tickling your tomato blossoms and brushing your squash flowers probably aren't regular tasks on your gardening to-do list, but it turns out that hand pollination, in league with natural processes, can...

May 2023

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What Your Weeds Are Telling You About Your Soil

Pulling weeds growing in your garden, yard, flower beds, or between the cracks in your driveway is tedious work--especially when they seem to grow back overnight. But rather than blaming and then evic...

May 2023

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How to Plant a Low-Maintenance and Drought-Resistant Gravel Garden

If you're tired of watering your lawn to keep it alive, or if you live somewhere with water use restrictions, you may have given up on having a garden. In places where it's hard to keep traditional la...

May 2023

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How to Attract Ground-Dwelling Bees to Your Garden (and Why You Should)

Spring means flowers, and where there are flowers, there will be bees. These pollinators are a crucial part of the ecosystem, facilitating reproduction for many plants and playing a crucial role in th...

May 2023

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Our Favorite Tech for the Home Garden

Karen Hugg[photo1][photo2][photo3][photo4]A backyard garden can be a healing sanctuary after a stressful day, but maintaining that sanctuary, ironically, can require a lot of effort and time. Unless y...

May 2023

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Take These Steps to Keep Diseases From Ruining Your Garden

Viruses and funguses are among the worst gardening concerns, and we're often to blame. I spoke with Meg Cowden, fearless leader of The Modern Garden Guild and author of Plant, Grow, Harvest, Repeat ab...

Apr 2023

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Gardening Doesn't Have to Wreck Your Body

Gardening season is finally upon us, which is reason for celebration--even though the first time you head out to work in your yard or garden, you'll quickly be reminded how physically demanding it can...

Apr 2023

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You Should Plant Artichokes and Asparagus Right Now

When you think about the expensive vegetables at the store, you know, the really sexy ones that have "a season," you're usually thinking of perennial vegetables. Somewhat ironically, they're the most ...

Apr 2023

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How to Move Your Seedlings Outside Without Killing Them

Welcome to Fake Spring, a time of high anxiety for gardeners all across the U.S. We've spent the winter consuming seed catalogs like porn, stalking garden centers like pervs, and now we are jonesing f...

Apr 2023

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Why You Need to Double Check Your 'Safe Food' Ingredients If You're Allergic to Sesame

Sesame is now considered to be one of the major allergens that need to appear on ingredients labels. This should make life easier for people who are allergic to sesame, but the Washington Post reports...

Apr 2023

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The Best Ways to Keep Squirrels Out of Your Potted Plants

Most gardeners know that squirrels can pose a threat to nearly any potted plant. They like to dig in the soil to stash food they don't consume immediately, so in addition to digging up your plants and...

Apr 2023

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Everything You Should Be Using Your Local Extension Office for (but Aren't)

If you grew up on a farm, participated in 4-H, or went to a land-grant university, you are probably already aware of what a rich resource your county extension office is for pro tips and life skills. ...

Apr 2023

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The Simple Difference Between a Farm and a Garden

[photo1]Gardening has always been a part of American home life, with tens of millions of homes across the country sporting one. That got an extra boost during the pandemic-era lockdowns, naturally eno...

Mar 2023