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Planting your Garden
Planting is probably the most crucial step you will take in the growing season.
Planting a seed, transplanting volunteer seedlings, rooting a cutting, and dividing one plant into many, are great adventures!Not only is it fascinating, but you get your own plants for practically nothing, and in whatever quantities you desire. You can have masses of color, and armloads of flowers to pick, for a pittance of an investment.
Planting is probably the most crucial step you will take in the growing season. This is where it will all begin. Be sure to observe the proper Moon Phase and organic gardening principles when setting out your garden and the harvest will be bountiful.
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Victory over food prices: Home gardens boom:
In 2009, vegetable gardening is experiencing a revival, as Americans struggle to make ends meet. A recent National Gardening Association poll projects a 20 percent rise in the number of households growing vegetables this year over last, including 7 million new gardens.
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Victory Gardens for a new era:
Under the gaze of Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture whose statue graces the top of the golden dome of the Statehouse in Montpelier, a group of students on Thursday began planting what's believed to be the first vegetable garden at a state capitol in the nation.
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10 Best Garden Crops For Beginners:
For beginners at gardening, one key is to NOT take on too much at first. Grow into gardening slowly.
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Basic Knowledge on Home Gardening: In these days, home gardening has become more and more popular, for more and more people have realized the benefits of the home gardening. Home gardening can give you fresh vegetables and wonderful scene. But it is not easy to handle your gardening. You need know a few basic rules and knowledge.
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Vegetable Garden: Planning and Layout: Growing vegetables can be a great way to save money, improve your diet, get exercise, and enjoy the outdoors. And the best part about vegetable gardening is that you can do as much or as little as you want.
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What are the Most Important Vegetable Gardening Tips That you Should Know?: There are literally thousands upon thousands of different vegetable gardening tips and home gardening tips out there that you can learn about and use to your advantage, but if you are just getting started in gardening and want to know what the absolute most important vegetable gardening tips are that you should know, here they are.
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The 10 Easiest Vegetables to Grow at Home: Here are some crops that even the least green thumbed among you can tackle, and tips on how to make them flourish.
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Planting Vegetable Gardens Basics - Back to Fundamentals: There are several basics of planting vegetable gardens know matter what type of vegetables you're going to plant, no matter whether you live in the city or the country, and no matter the size of the garden you're going to plant.
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Planting a Vegetable Garden - 5 Tips For Success: Planting a vegetable garden can be a fun and exciting spring ritual. For most, the annual hope for a great growing season is high as is the desire to provide fresh vegetables for the family. Here are five tips to help you be successful this season.
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Preparing The New Garden Plot: There is more to a good-looking landscape than plants. Here are some tips about other materials that go into creating the perfect garden.
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Plant Talk - Planting tips: Apple trees and garden plots are covered in this article. Straight talk for the home gardener.
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Planting Around the Home For the Family and For Your Treasured Times Outdoors: You will find that the produce that is located in your local grocery store could affect your family. First, things like wax and chemicals usually taint the produce. You will find that the fruit will absorb these chemicals too, so it is still consumed even if you wash your fruit.
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Good Planting Practices: After the fall season, spring is the next best season for planting new trees, shrubs and perennials. The warm days, cool nights and increased rainfall provide excellent growing conditions for plants, especially their root systems.
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Avoid Zucchini Syndrome - How Many Vegetables to Grow: Growing your own veggies. To avoid having too much of a good thing, here's how many vegetables to grow for today's smaller families.
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Gardening and Astrology: Thinking about getting back into the garden? Even if you're growing some window boxes to have a piece of Earth around, don't make a single move without consulting the Stars!
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Planting (and Harvesting) Under the Light of the Silvery Moon: Some gardeners believe that the best times for garden activities are dictated by the phases of the moon. Not that your garden will be a flop otherwise, but rather, as one moon gardener says, you should "take advantage of the impetus provided by nature."
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Planning Your Spring Vegetable Garden: Now is the time to plan your vegetable garden. When you do, consider the benefits of crop rotation. Crop rotation is a method of restoring soil nutrients, which have been depleted by previous crops.
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Planting Vegetable Gardens For Peace and Relaxation - Feel the Enjoyment: Stress is a major factor in most people's lives, but many have found that planting vegetable gardens can give them a slice of peace and relaxation while reaping the rewards of having fresh grown vegetables.
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The Basics of Garden Planning: Garden planning is one important part prior to gardening. One must consider time, proper plant selection, and the correct outline of your garden.
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Tips on Getting Ready For the Start of a New Growing Season: Spring is the start of a new growing season. Time to get your garden ready for planting and finish what you couldn't get done before winter set in.
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In The Garden Planning Before Planting Is Key: How many times have you gone to the garden store and bought some plants that you absolutely loved only to get home and not be able to find a suitable place in the garden? Here's some things to think about in order to plan that perfect garden...
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Sunny Windows Are Perfect For Starting Outdoor Plants: February is the longest month in the year - at least so it seems to the winter weary gardener impatiently waiting to plunge his hands into the good earth. That's probably the real reason so many seedlings are started in sunny windows, though there are practical aspects, also.
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Start Your Seeds Indoors For A Jump On Spring Planting: Mary Hanna has written a guide on how to start your garden indoors by planting seedlings. To get a jump on your spring garden and to avoid frost, follow these simple steps for a gorgeous healthy garden.
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Starting from seed - Now is a good time to begin planting: More people across the country are planting their own gardens to save money at the grocery store, and many of them are trying to do it as cost-effectively as possible. That often means growing their own plants from seed.
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Hardening Off Isn't Hard: Hardening off refers to the process of acclimating plants from indoor temperatures to the outdoors. Because plants usually are grown in greenhouses (or, as seedlings in our kitchen window!), they've been pampered. They need to be introduced slowly to the elements of wind and intense sun.
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How to Read a Seed Catalog: Before choosing seeds from a catalog, you' ll need to know which growing zone you live in. Growing zones, also known as hardiness zones, are based on the average minimum temperatures for each zone. A growing zone map is included in every good garden catalog, making it quite easy to identify your garden? s hardiness zone.
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Enjoy Starting Your Garden: When spring arrives it is time to think seriously about your garden. Although there are tasks during summer and fall, spring is the time to let your creativity shine to create a garden that will show off all season.
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Four Essential Gardening Tips - Starting a Garden: There are a few gardening tips that have worked for me in the past that I am going to share with you because when starting your own garden there is no reason to head in with your eyes closed. There is plenty of information about gardening in your arsenal. The Internet, gardening clubs, books, magazines and the help of your local nursery are all great caches of gardening tips. The main thing that I have noticed is that planning your garden on paper is a must.
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How to Get Into Gardening -- Easily: When you were a kid, there was nothing better than running around outside, with the wind in your hair and the earth under your bare feet. Now that you've grown, you might be surprised to find that the feeling is exactly the same. If you haven't tried gardening, it's time to roll up your sleeves, and pant legs, and get reacquainted with the great outdoors.
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No Dig Gardens - How to Build One: No Dig Gardening is a clean, green, easy way to grow your own vegetables. This article will explain what a no dig garden is and how to build one.
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Like Planting Veggies In a Barrel: For those who garden in small spaces, whiskey barrels are the best thing since whiskey. A barrel sawn in half at its waistline makes a sturdy planter about two feet in diameter and 16 to 18 inches tall. There are plenty of pots and planters on the market, elegant enough for the choicest lily, but this homey container never seems to lose its appeal.
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Planting a Denver hay bale vegetable garden: I'd like to share a fun garden technique with all my Denver readers. It involves planting a vegetable garden in a hay bale. The premise is to use the fertilized hay bale as a gardening medium, rather than soil. This method should work especially well in the summer heat of Denver.
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How to Create a Butterfly Garden: It' s quite easy to create a butterfly garden. You may even find that you already grow some flowers that attract butterflies. With just a little effort you can create a beautiful haven for these lovely winged creatures, and the butterflies will appreciate your efforts.
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Companion Planting for the Home Gardener: In nature, where plants grow without cultivation, there is always a mixture of plant types growing in an area. The selection of the plants living in an area depends on the soil type, local climatic conditions and horticultural history. With a few exceptions, the plants that grow together in the wild are mutually beneficial, in that they allow for maximum utilization of light, moisture and soil.
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Planting Tomatoes: In this article we're going to discuss the planting of tomatoes. This isn't something to try if you're new to gardening. Tomatoes need special care.
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Let’s Plant Potatoes in the Garden: Potatoes, taters, spuds
call them what you will, potatoes are a staple in the diet of many people all over the planet. Potatoes are a nutritious, versatile vegetable, and they? re incredibly easy to grow. But before you run out to the garden with your shovel and hoe, there are a few things you should know about planting potatoes.
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Planting A Vegetable Garden Reaps Hidden Health Benefits: Read about the health benefits from planting a vegetable garden in your own back yard. Pick perfectly ripe, perfectly delicious tomatoes without having to wonder what chemicals went into growing them. Become healthier and fitter by planting a vegetable garden in the smallest of spaces. Planting a vegetable garden is a healthy way to relieve stress, eat healthier and safer - because you control what goes on your vegetables, provide better nutrition to your family with fresh vegetables, and get some exercise while enjoying the warm sun and environment.
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WHICH OF THE HUNDREDS OF TOMATO VARIETIES SHOULD I PLANT?: Tomatoes are such a staple in the modern diet that it is hard to believe there was a time when this versatile fruit was once thought to be poisonous.
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Choosing Healthy Plants: Do you know how to go into a nursery and choose a healthy plant? It's harder than you might think if you don't know what to look for. When you go into a nursery always look around and see if the plants are well cared for and seem to be healthy.
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Herb Gardening - Grow Your Own: Herb gardening is fun, and you can grow exactly what you want. Herbs can be grown indoors in containers and outdoors in containers or on a small plot of soil in many configurations. And they will be fresh and ready to use in your kitchen when you need them.
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Starting Your Own Herbs From a Seed: They say you should talk to your plants, indoors or out, to make them happy. I don't know if my long, deep, philosophical discussions make my plants happy, but they sure do make my neighbors laugh right out loud. Sometimes it takes a little coaxing to get a baby herb to peek its little head above the dirt..
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Planning an Herb Garden: Herb gardens can be planted for a variety of reasons. Some people plan their gardens for growing medicinal products, skincare products, cooking accents, and so forth. No matter what reason you have for planting your herb garden, there are a few basics that you should know about herbs and their functions. There are several basic kinds of herbs; herbaceous, evergreen, and annual.
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Tips for Planting an Outdoor Herb Garden: Planting an Herb Garden is simple even for those of you with a brown thumb. Before planting, there are some tips and suggestions that you can follow to help make your herb garden a success.
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How To Grow Parsley And The Many Uses Of The Parsley Herbs: The humble parsley herbs have been around for centuries. The Greeks planted the parsley herb as a border for their gardens. They also used the parsley herb to crown winners at competitions and to decorate tombs.
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Companion Planting Vegetables For Increased Crops: With the right combination, companion planting in your vegetable garden is a great way to improve growth, reduce disease, encourage beneficial insects to thrive and discourage pests. But first you need to know the right combinations!
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The Ultimate Magic Garden: Spring is the season to start planting seeds for the future. For me, the ultimate Magic Garden would be planted using the Feng Shui bagua as a guideline for the boundaries of the plot and incorporate flowers herbs and plants that correspond to each signifigant direction.
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3 Steps To A Healthier Garden: Your Guide to Soil Preparation. What follows are general rules or guidelines for preparing any garden for planting.
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Your Vegetable Garden and the Soil that It Grows In: You've decided that you wanted vegetable garden, but how do you know if it will grow well in the soil that you have? A successful garden starts with a fertile, well-prepared soil.
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Growing crops by following the lunar calendar: Biodynamic farming (BD) is also a form of organic farming as it not only avoids the use of pesticides and chemical-based fertilizers but also offers advise on the time of crop sowing according to the lunar crop cycle.
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The Night Shift: Many plants bloom exclusively at night. Many more wait until evening to release their heady scent. White flowers and plants with variegated foliage glow softly as they reflect the moonlight.
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Grape Planting Tips: Of all the steps in producing good quality wine, planting your grapes and picking the varietals are the most important. The best winemaker cannot turn poor grapes into good wine, but you can make great wine if your grapes are first quality.
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Plant corn now and in August: It is not just corn anymore. Corn comes in endless kinds of sweet and supersweet enhanced and colors of yellow, white and mixed. Select varieties that take the fewest days to mature. Plant now and again in August.
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Planting Avocado Seed - How to Grow the Perfect Avocado: Once you know how easy it is to go about planting avocado seed, you'll start growing your own indoor avocado plant that will bring you years of enjoyment, and some nice fruit, too! Just follow these simple steps, and soon, you'll see your avocado seed begin to sprout and turn into a beautiful plant.
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GROWING EGGPLANTS: The National Garden Bureau has picked eggplant as the vegetable to showcase for 2008. It is easy to grow from seed, is widely adaptable, and is genetically diverse with several types to choose from that you may not be familiar with.
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Organic Gardens - How To Start An Organic Garden Fast: One of the latest crazes that has caught on all over the world, especially in light of global warming and its all of the food contaminations that people have experienced is the hobby of organic gardening. Here are a few tips on how you can prepare the way for a successful and fast-growing organic garden.
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How Do I Go About Starting An Organic Garden?: Now that we have shown you how to start an organic garden you can go and choose a spot in your garden and get started. Soon you will be on the way to producing all your own lovely organic products.
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Beginner's Guide to Flower Gardening: The first thing you need to do is learn a little bit about flowers in general. You need to learn the difference between annuals and perennials, for example. Annuals need to be replanted every year, but perennials keep blooming year after year.
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A Guide to Planting Grass: Growing the perfect lawn can be tricky, but there are some tips to keep in mind. Especially if you're starting over because your last lawn was not healthy, make sure that you prepare the soil before planting the seeds. After they sprout, they need additional care to help them thrive.
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Tips for Planting Bulbs in Spring: You have your garden tools in hand, you're thinking about plant bulb in spring, and you're wondering if you are going to waste time and money doing so. No, you're not. You just need to consider these tips before embarking on spring bulb planting.
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Planting Spring Flowering Garden Bulbs: The planting of spring flowering bulbs is an important and exciting event in the annual gardening calendar. As the tiny green shoots emerge heralding the beginning of the end of Winter slumber. Garden bulbs are triumphant ambassadors of garden colour and are the forefront at the start of the new gardening year.
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Planting and Caring for Flower Bulbs: There is nothing quite as welcome as those beautiful spring flowers that seem to emerge from nowhere to welcome the arrival of spring. Bulb type flowers are really unique plants, because they spend most of their days resting quietly beneath the surface of the soil.
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Planting Tips on Growing Beautiful Tulips: Gardening tips on how to plant and grow tulips or any flower bulb in your garden. Just a few basic steps will ensure that you will enjoy beautiful springtime flowers next spring.
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Night Blooming Plants: There are many flowers and plants that bloom at night. Here is a listing of these types of plants. A nocturnal garden is one of the best kept secretes of the avid gardener.
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Organic Gardening Principles: The reasons why you should learn organic gardening principles are many. It might be because you want to start a new garden, but you do not want to damage the environment. Maybe you want to transform your current garden. You may want to serve some delicious, organic fruits and vegetables to friends and family. Whatever your motivation maybe, you should always consider certain things when planning a garden.
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Planning Your Garden from Scratch - the Planting: Planting is the term professional gardeners use for
..plants. In other words, trees, shrubs, grasses, bedding plants, etc. and there are endless varieties to choose from. The easiest thing to do is to buy a book with a reference list in it showing the soil type, sun/shade and watering requirements.
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It's time to plant those gardens: We have finally arrived at the time of the year when we can start planting our gardens. Normally the first week of April is good for planting potatoes.
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Gardening Throughout The Year - A Seasonal Planting Guide For Beginners: Growing a garden can, at times, be almost an art form. This is because it is not always as simple as planting something and letting it grow. Even though it would work to do that, many people understand that careful planning and consistent effort are required in order to grow a garden that will produce consistently throughout the growing season. This would be true of both a vegetable garden and a flower garden. Either one will need to be planned out and cared for in order to have real success with your gardening. So what all is needed in order to make sure that your garden produces well throughout the year?
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Fall Planting of Trees: Fall is the ideal time to plant a tree--both for the gardener and the tree! The weather is cooler, so it is more enjoyable working outdoors. The tree also benefits because the soil is better able to retain moisture now than during the hot days of summer, so it becomes established easily.
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Planting Zones: Planting zones in the United States, which are also known as Hardiness Zones, can be thought of as the rate of survival to the plant life in that particular region during cold periods, such as winter. In effect it is the survival rate ability of a plant during the winter months that can fruitfully live on into the next growing season. The zones were first developed by the United States Department of Agriculture, or the USDA.
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Planting Zones Hold Key Information For Gardeners: It's necessary to know a little about the various planting zones - particularly your own - before you hunker down and get to work in your garden. Why, you might ask? Your planting zone is the deciding factor as to the specific plants you ought to be planting in order to have them thrive in your climate.
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Planting Vegetable Gardens Indoors - What You Need to Decide: Everyone enjoys fresh garden vegetables when they grow them themselves or purchase them at a farmers market. Even if you do not have a backyard, you can enjoy planting vegetable gardens by using your indoor space. You have to make a few decisions before you begin concerning space, containers, and of course, the appropriate vegetables.
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Artifical Light for Starting Seeds and Indoor Growing: In starting seeds indoors and growing house plants, light, along with temperature and humidity, can be controlled and thus become a tool for producing luxuriant healthy growth. With fluorescent light you can give plants just the illumination they need all the time, no matter what the weather outside.
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Creative Planting Projects for Every Season!: 3 creative gardening projects that will deepen your understanding of plant growth and care.
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