Amending Soils in Fall
Fall is a great time to condition the earth. That is because the soil has worked hard helping plants grow all spring and summer and may be depleted of nutrients
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Seasonal Blooms
Diversity is not only the spice of life, but is its very foundation! In this blog, we will follow the sequence of blooms of the trees, shrubs and perennials in
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – Gardening with Granulars
Let’s discuss granular fertilizers! Why even use a granular? And what are some of the ways you can use them in landscape plantings and in potted plant culture? There are
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – The Summer Veg Garden
Here in the Blue Ridge in North Carolina, there are plenty of opportunities to grow vegetables. We have had “spring” since February, and gardening tasks included the planting out of
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Preparing for Summer
In this installment, I’d like to share the things I learned in attempts to grow on a property in which wildlife has free reign. How do you protect your garden
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Companion Planting, part I
Four plant families (the Amaryllidaceae, Apiaceae, Asteraceae, and Labiatae) can be the basis of companion planting. What are companion plants and why bother with them? In this blog series, we
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Starting Plants from Seed in the Spring
Spring a season filled with the promise of a new beginning, and this hold true for the growing season. Late winter or early spring is when gardening enthusiasts should be
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Joe’s Journal, Winter edition: Seeds of Change, Part IV
The Summer Garden The native plants from the Americas, in contrast to those of the Mediterranean and Eurasia, were exported to Europe by the Spanish explorers in the 1500s. But
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Joe’s Journal, Winter Edition: The Four to Six Seasons, part 2
Toward Better Gardening in a Changing Climate: Creating a Tailor-Made Almanac One of the most useful tools one can have along with a spade, shovel, rake, and compost pile is
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Joe’s Journal, Winter Edition: Indoor Hydroponics
Gardening does not have to end with the onset of winter. You can take it indoors! Here, we’ll describe the how-to of setting up an indoor hydroponic system. There are
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