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Uplevel Your Seed-Starting Game

Uplevel Your Seed-Starting Game

Ellen Wells

It seems like every gardening-adjacent company is posting about seed-starting topics at the moment. It is that time of year, after all. We’ve decided to do something a bit more...

Uplevel Your Seed-Starting Game

Ellen Wells

It seems like every gardening-adjacent company is posting about seed-starting topics at the moment. It is that time of year, after all. We’ve decided to do something a bit more...

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Groundcovers in Winter

Groundcovers in Winter

Ellen Wells

A guest post by Shannon Currey. As much as curling up with a good book, a hot beverage, and a fuzzy blanket is sublime during winter, there’s another activity that...

Groundcovers in Winter

Ellen Wells

A guest post by Shannon Currey. As much as curling up with a good book, a hot beverage, and a fuzzy blanket is sublime during winter, there’s another activity that...

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Growing Herbs on Windowsills

Growing Herbs on Windowsills

Ellen Wells

For me, growing herbs indoors in a sunny window is way more satisfying than growing houseplants. Why is that? While both houseplants and herbs add that much-needed touch of fresh...

Growing Herbs on Windowsills

Ellen Wells

For me, growing herbs indoors in a sunny window is way more satisfying than growing houseplants. Why is that? While both houseplants and herbs add that much-needed touch of fresh...

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Holiday Plants: Rescue or Refuse Pile?

Holiday Plants: Rescue or Refuse Pile?

Ellen Wells

If you are anything like us here at Organic Mechanics, you do your best to keep plants living no matter what. You probably even double down on your efforts when...

Holiday Plants: Rescue or Refuse Pile?

Ellen Wells

If you are anything like us here at Organic Mechanics, you do your best to keep plants living no matter what. You probably even double down on your efforts when...

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Community Gardening: Meeting Gardeners Where They Are

Community Gardening: Meeting Gardeners Where Th...

Ellen Wells

If there is one thing we know about gardening, it’s that the word “community” is always implied. The act of gardening doesn’t take place in a vacuum. A “community” is...

Community Gardening: Meeting Gardeners Where Th...

Ellen Wells

If there is one thing we know about gardening, it’s that the word “community” is always implied. The act of gardening doesn’t take place in a vacuum. A “community” is...

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Start Your Cacti and Succulent Collection

Start Your Cacti and Succulent Collection

Ellen Wells

Cacti and succulents to me are the terrestrial versions of the ocean’s bizarrest sea creatures. To look at their needle-packed or plump branches, their rainbow of colors, their “I can’t...

Start Your Cacti and Succulent Collection

Ellen Wells

Cacti and succulents to me are the terrestrial versions of the ocean’s bizarrest sea creatures. To look at their needle-packed or plump branches, their rainbow of colors, their “I can’t...

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