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Perennial Vegetables are Delectable

Perennial Vegetables are Delectable

Ellen Wells

Have your garden’s perennial vegetables raised themselves from the depths of the earth yet this spring? Rhubarb and asparagus are likely breaking through the soil this month. Strawberry plants will...

Perennial Vegetables are Delectable

Ellen Wells

Have your garden’s perennial vegetables raised themselves from the depths of the earth yet this spring? Rhubarb and asparagus are likely breaking through the soil this month. Strawberry plants will...

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Growing Herbs Indoors

Growing Herbs Indoors

Ellen Wells

Are you bored on the weekends without your outdoor gardening tasks? Last month’s post—all about growing microgreens indoors—was meant to have gotten you through the winter lack-of-gardening blues. If you...

Growing Herbs Indoors

Ellen Wells

Are you bored on the weekends without your outdoor gardening tasks? Last month’s post—all about growing microgreens indoors—was meant to have gotten you through the winter lack-of-gardening blues. If you...

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Microgreens for Winter Indoor Growing

Microgreens for Winter Indoor Growing

Ellen Wells

As the garden’s hardy greens are finally about to succumb to continued winter cold weather, it’s time to move your vegetable production inside. I’ve been setting up a microgreens growing...

Microgreens for Winter Indoor Growing

Ellen Wells

As the garden’s hardy greens are finally about to succumb to continued winter cold weather, it’s time to move your vegetable production inside. I’ve been setting up a microgreens growing...

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Houseplant How-Tos

Houseplant How-Tos

Ellen Wells

Now that the vegetable and flower gardens are taking a long winter’s nap, it’s time for us to turn our attention to what’s growing inside our homes. Houseplants are not...

Houseplant How-Tos

Ellen Wells

Now that the vegetable and flower gardens are taking a long winter’s nap, it’s time for us to turn our attention to what’s growing inside our homes. Houseplants are not...

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Getting a Leg Up for Next Spring

Getting a Leg Up for Next Spring

Ellen Wells

Except for a few hardy greens left to harvest , we’re done with the gardens for this season. And by “done” I mean we’ve got very little energy left to...

Getting a Leg Up for Next Spring

Ellen Wells

Except for a few hardy greens left to harvest , we’re done with the gardens for this season. And by “done” I mean we’ve got very little energy left to...

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Bringing Indoor Plants Back Inside

Bringing Indoor Plants Back Inside

Ellen Wells

I live in an unheated three-season cottage May through October. The last week of September reliably presents one or two nights that dip down to 50F. Like a splash of...

Bringing Indoor Plants Back Inside

Ellen Wells

I live in an unheated three-season cottage May through October. The last week of September reliably presents one or two nights that dip down to 50F. Like a splash of...

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