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Maximizing Your Vegetable Garden

Maximizing Your Vegetable Garden

Ellen Wells

We’re continuing the efficiency theme from last month’s post about using garden space resourcefully and this month focusing on ways you can get the most bang for your buck in...

Maximizing Your Vegetable Garden

We’re continuing the efficiency theme from last month’s post about using garden space resourcefully and this month focusing on ways you can get the most bang for your buck in...

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herb garden in pallet

Cost-Effectively Using Space in the Garden

Ellen Wells

“Cost effectiveness” seems to be the buzz phrase for 2025. No matter the aspect of our lives, we are looking for ways to do more with what time, space and...

Cost-Effectively Using Space in the Garden

“Cost effectiveness” seems to be the buzz phrase for 2025. No matter the aspect of our lives, we are looking for ways to do more with what time, space and...

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Terrariums as a Fun Winter Project for Families

Terrariums as a Fun Winter Project for Families

Ellen Wells

Who wasn’t fascinated by the concept of terrariums as a child? The fact that you could put some baby plants—maybe even some worms!—and a bit of soil and water into...

Terrariums as a Fun Winter Project for Families

Who wasn’t fascinated by the concept of terrariums as a child? The fact that you could put some baby plants—maybe even some worms!—and a bit of soil and water into...

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Seed Swap 101

Seed Swap 101

Ellen Wells

In Universal Gardener Speak, January is Seed Starting Time. Southern gardeners in Zones 9 and warmer will start sowing seeds indoors right about now, with the timeline moving down the...

Seed Swap 101

In Universal Gardener Speak, January is Seed Starting Time. Southern gardeners in Zones 9 and warmer will start sowing seeds indoors right about now, with the timeline moving down the...

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Gifts That Gardens Give Us

Gifts That Gardens Give Us

Ellen Wells

If you’re feeling a little on edge, heavy with worry, and enveloped by a general melancholy, it might (ironically) make you feel a bit better knowing you’re not the only...

Gifts That Gardens Give Us

If you’re feeling a little on edge, heavy with worry, and enveloped by a general melancholy, it might (ironically) make you feel a bit better knowing you’re not the only...

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garlic and shallot bulbs

Planting Garlic and Shallots

Ellen Wells

Tomatoes and corn may be the darlings of the vegetable garden, but it’s the alliums that are the garden’s culinary workhorses. They’re used most every day in our kitchens! And...

Planting Garlic and Shallots

Tomatoes and corn may be the darlings of the vegetable garden, but it’s the alliums that are the garden’s culinary workhorses. They’re used most every day in our kitchens! And...

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