Learning how to divide hostas is good for your landscape in terms of inexpensively expanding your garden areas using existing plants.
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Green tomatoes
Green tomatoes in my dad’s garden
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Young beans
Almost ready to pick yellow wax beans in my dad’s garden.
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Climbing cukes
Cucumbers climbing the fence in my dad’s garden.
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Small cuke in the garden
The first cucumber of the year in my dad’s garden.
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Garden Tomato Kites
This photo, a tomato kite, is a close-up of the picture previously sent.
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Tomato Kite Creation
My husband Mike invented these tomato kites because he didn’t like any of the other alternative tomato supports like cages or stakes. Made from wood and string the supports are flexible and float in the breeze giving the plants a comfortable place to rest and grow. Here he is setting them up on each plant. […]
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How Long Do Seeds Last?
Before I buy new seeds, I’d like to know if I can use the ones I have left over from last year. How long do seeds last? Is there a general rule I can follow to tell if they are good? Seeds have widely differing useful lives. Onion, aster, and delphinium, for example, must be […]
The relationship between cats and tulips may seem obscure, but gardeners who are cat lovers would instantly understand…
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Wildflower Gardening
One of the best reasons to grow native plants is that they’re relatively easy to raise, because they’re so well adapted to our region (which isn’t to say they are immune from their natural insect and animal predators, but that’s the trade-off in ecological gardening). Like all plants, native species have differing soil and water […]
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The Dating Flowers
This is a photograph of my crocus garden. I challenged myself to take some macro images of my new sprouted crocus bulbs. I particularly like how the background has soft colors so the vibrant colors of the crocus bulbs stand out. Very happy with how this came out. I firmly believe that we do not […]
Roses belong to an enormous family called Rosaceae, encompassing thousands of plant species from apples to strawberries. Here are a few hardy-rose suggestions: Canadian Explorer Series (Zones 2–7): Developed in Ottawa at Agriculture Canada’s Central Experiment Station; exceptionally hardy roses bred from rugged parents with spectacular results. Vigorous climbers and shrubs; primarily red or pink; […]