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There’s been a fair amount of disappointment that’s cropped up in my vegetable garden this season. I have stunted beets, a Jekyll-and-Hyde situation with some shallots, mysterious nightly holes in my Swiss chard (turns out it’s earwigs) and a bacterial disease in my tomatoes. Oh, right, and there was that groundhog who ate my entire container of kale in one…
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Round about July I assess all of my containers for the possibilities of what I call “Summer Swap-Outs.” The containers with items such as cascading petunias, summery lobelia and mounding verbena are handling the heat well. Others that I planted many months ago now—the containers with kale and arugula, for instance, or the spring pansies—have seen their peak. Even my…
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Over the last decade cannabis production has come out of the closet, quite literally. The first person I knew to have grown his own cannabis (or marijuana or pot or whichever name you prefer to call it) grew several pots of it in his bedroom closet, hidden away from his parents. And while some folks may grow cannabis in places…
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Not finding the items you’re looking for at the garden center or home improvement store? Are you thinking you missed the memo advising you to buy all your gardening supplies—from plants to pots, soils to supplements—early in the season? Well, you didn’t miss the memo, and your neighbors didn’t buy out the stores—even the online stores!—before you started shopping. What…
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Perhaps you were bitten by the gardening bug during the first few months of the pandemic. You may have sprinkled some lettuce seeds in a window box, bought some tomato plants for the sunny patch in the back yard or potted up all sorts of colorful annuals to brighten up your deck. You’re even watching some fall-planted bulbs emerge from…
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