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Cool as a Cucumber | DALLAS GARDEN BUZZ

July 25, 2024 Do you know that not all cukes are created equal? To simplify, there are two fundamental kinds of cucumbers, American and English. Each can be utilized for pickling and slicing. This yr I made a decision to attempt the English selection in my raised backyard mattress. Additionally,…

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Apple care

There’s been an outstanding fruit set on my apple tree – a mixture of early heat on the proper time for pollinators adopted by loads of rain means June drop hasn’t actually occurred right here this 12 months. I thinned these just lately alongside dozens extra and eliminated a few…

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searching for flower bulbs, with ken druse

HAVE YOU DONE your bulb procuring but? It’s ordering time each for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you’ll solely purchase now in case you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species. Ken Druse and I each have been making lists of bulbs we as soon as…

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Is it good to spray crops with water?

In lots of locations I’ve learn that you must spray the crops no less than as soon as a day, which is one thing that worries me lots as a result of not at all times a good suggestion. For instance, if I did it myself, it wouldn’t be lengthy…

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Water Colours within the Backyard

By Ginger Baer, Gilpin County Grasp GardenerThis is the time of the yr that we get flooded with our seed catalogs. Oh, to dream of heat, sunny, gardening climate.  These catalogs do assist brighten a gray wintery day. Nonetheless, while you get by means of the catalog and make your…

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A 12 months at Brandywine Cottage: E-book Assessment

It’s the center of January, and I’m hungry for spring. Spring gained’t come for one more couple of months in my local weather, so I whet my urge for food with inspirational gardening books. Considered one of my favorites is The Layered Backyard (aff. hyperlink) by David Culp. I reviewed…

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Have you ever thought of a broadfork?

I made a decision on a broadfork in a roundabout manner. I used to be rooting pink pussy willow cuttings and needed to present them a soft residence for a number of years earlier than planting them of their wilder, permantent location. I had surplus colchicum corms that I knew…

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