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Low-Stress Organic Veggie & Herb Gardening
This is our first year in our new home. It’s thrilling to see the hundreds of tulips poking through the snow dust. The previous owner has some nice flower beds and a herb bed, but no vegetable garden.…
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Fool-Proof Tips for Container Gardening
Avis Licht is a landscape gardener, educator, and author of the wonderful book, The Spring Garden Made Easy. Her passion is to create beautiful gardens that incorporate edibles that can be harvested y…
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Growing an Edible Garden
By Erica Sofrina, author of Small Changes, Dynamic Results! Feng Shui for the Western World I interviewed a wonderful teacher and Landscape Designer, Avis Licht whose passion is to create beautiful…
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5 Simple Ways To Get Your Garden Ready for Spring
With spring exactly a month away (it officially starts on March 20), as a gardener and food advocate, my thoughts are naturally turning to food and getting my garden ready for spring. I am not unusual…
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A Colorful Garden in the Winter
In Northern California, the five-acre garden at Campovida is bright with colorful vegetables and fruits, even during the winter months. With a history that goes back to the 1980s, the property was re…
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Toxic Waste in Fertilizers?
In case you needed another reason to avoid conventional fertilizers, you can add that they may contain toxic waste to the list. EPA regulations allow fertilizer manufacturers to use fly ash which c…
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7 Reasons Why You Should Grow Your Own Food
Not that being part of a trend is ever a good reason to start or learn something new, but if it helps you move forward by being part of the "in" crowd, then you really need to plant your own edible ga…
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It’s Fall: Plant Cool-Season Vegetables
As I have written about before, many gardeners believe that fall is the best time of year to plant because winter rains and cooler temperatures help plants get a healthy, established root system easie…
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10 Ways Organic Gardening is like Good Business
I was out puttering in my garden this morning, planting a few new perennials – (I’m running out of space for planting new things!). My mind was on work, as it is a lot these days. I stood up for a sec…
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My Top 10 Favorite Flowers
Now that gardening season has returned in full force, it’s time to revel in the glorious abundant beauty of nature (unless, that is, she is thrashing us with her rages). One of my favorite things abou…
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Sounds very very good. I'll try it; thanks for sharing
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