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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Joe’s Journal, Winter Edition: A Year-Round Seed Starting Schedule
I have found that creating a system of organization for seed starting helps not only with timely sowing, but with time management. First start with listing the plants that you
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Joe’s Journal, Fall Edition: On Mulches, Leaf Mold, and Composts
Fall is a great time to condition the earth. Whether you are amending a vegetable garden, flower bed or lawn, the techniques that follow will help make your landscape more
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Joe’s Journal, Fall Edition: On Seed Saving
If you grow heirloom varieties, you may want to consider seed saving. If you grow hybrid garden varieties, just stop reading now! Why is that? Many garden plants are hybridized
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Protecting Your Harvest
The actual definition of gardening: the practice of growing and cultivating plants for birds, rabbits, deer and insects to consume! The most confounding thing about growing plants is that the
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