Gardening Tips by Charlie Nardozzi I’ve been watching Charlie Nardozzi give gardening tips on WCAX.com for years, recently he did one on roses that I wanted to share with you. In this 5 minute clip discusses various types of rose, their care, and best of all: things you have around the house to keep them […]
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Gardening companion planting chart Via Heirloom Organics Every year this garden companion planting chart is out and used in an effort to have garden success. It’s very helpful when trying to keep all these plant friends together. Try it and let me know what changes you notice in your garden. A handy garden layout using
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Daily Harvest As many of my faithful readers know, I recently started growing salad greens indoors. Which was detailed in my post: “Let the Gardening Begin” from January after setting up the 3 tier grow rack from Gardener’s Supply. Not knowing what would grow best, I started with the basic baby green mix, with excellent
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Improve your indoor grow system with lights I’ve had my eye on a home grow light system for some time. The 3 tier grow rack caught my eye. I felt it was time to upgrade from the makeshift home unit created with a bakers rack and shop light. The home setup worked, just not well.
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Soul Food and Gardeners: I’ve read Organic Gardening Magazine, on and off, since the mid 80’s and have yet to be disappointed. In fact, if anything, I might be considered an OG magazine hoarder, or one would think considering the boxes of past issues tucked away upstairs. Thankfully, I now have the digital subscription on
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The grand opening of our Night Blooming Cereus I remember when I first noticed buds starting to develop and my heart skipped a beat due to the joy for the coming event. We moved the rather large plant indoors last Sunday, due to the approaching storm, as it was becoming obvious that the grand opening
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Opening Soon: Night Blooming Cereus I was gifted a night blooming cereus, I carried this rather gangly looking plant into our home. My husband dropped a few “ugly ducking” comments but I assured him that, soon, hugely scented blooms would open making everything worth the effort. UPDATE: Below, you’ll find our time-lapse photo series of
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Making your own self watering planter I love all the self water planters that have come out on the market recently. Luckily one source for gardening toys tools, Gardeners Supply, has their main offices here and an outlet store as well. Many times I have looked at the catalog for things then run over to
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Keeping Organic Gardens Weed Free Weeds, we all have and have spent too much time removing them from our gardens. Over the last few years I have discovered a few nice ways to keep my gardens weed free and my time pulling them significantly reduced. Here is a list of the things I have done
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Mother Earth Garden Planner Update We are now fast approaching the planting season here in northern Vermont. If you recall from a past post titled: “Mother Earth News Garden Planner” I am trying this online planner vs hand written notes. To date they are doing exactly as they promised and sending email reminders regarding my
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