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Seed Starting
Start Your Seeds with the Right Tools Starting seeds indoors is an exciting step toward a flourishing garden. Whether you’re planting peppers or flowers, proper preparation and tools make all...
Seed Starting
Start Your Seeds with the Right Tools Starting seeds indoors is an exciting step toward a flourishing garden. Whether you’re planting peppers or flowers, proper preparation and tools make all...
Grow & Learn - Gardening Articles
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Overwintering Lavender: How to Protect It in Wi...
Lavender is a beautiful and fragrant herb cherished for its culinary, aromatic, and ornamental uses. However, this Mediterranean native can face challenges in colder climates. Ensuring your lavender plants thrive...
Overwintering Lavender: How to Protect It in Wi...
Lavender is a beautiful and fragrant herb cherished for its culinary, aromatic, and ornamental uses. However, this Mediterranean native can face challenges in colder climates. Ensuring your lavender plants thrive...
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Forcing Daffodils Indoors for Winter Blooms
Growing daffodils indoors is a simple way to bring bright color and fresh flowers into your home during winter. To successfully force daffodils, start with firm, healthy bulbs and choose...
Forcing Daffodils Indoors for Winter Blooms
Growing daffodils indoors is a simple way to bring bright color and fresh flowers into your home during winter. To successfully force daffodils, start with firm, healthy bulbs and choose...
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Nitrogen Fixing Cover Crops for Home Gardens
Nitrogen-fixing cover crops can improve soil fertility and support healthier crop rotations, but their benefits depend on proper plant growth, compatible bacteria, and effective management. Legumes such as clover, vetch,...
Nitrogen Fixing Cover Crops for Home Gardens
Nitrogen-fixing cover crops can improve soil fertility and support healthier crop rotations, but their benefits depend on proper plant growth, compatible bacteria, and effective management. Legumes such as clover, vetch,...
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Best Soil for Garlic: Prepare for Fall Planting
Preparing the right soil and planting bed is an important first step toward growing healthy, productive garlic. Before fall planting, choose a sunny, well-drained location and avoid areas where water...
Best Soil for Garlic: Prepare for Fall Planting
Preparing the right soil and planting bed is an important first step toward growing healthy, productive garlic. Before fall planting, choose a sunny, well-drained location and avoid areas where water...
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Compost Pile Microbiology for Healthier Soil
A healthy compost pile depends on the activity of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that break down organic materials. These microbes need the right balance of carbon, nitrogen, air, and...
Compost Pile Microbiology for Healthier Soil
A healthy compost pile depends on the activity of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that break down organic materials. These microbes need the right balance of carbon, nitrogen, air, and...
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Composting in Winter in the Willamette Valley
Winter composting in the Willamette Valley is possible, but cooler temperatures and frequent rain can slow decomposition and create moisture challenges. Successful winter composting starts with choosing a well-drained location,...
Composting in Winter in the Willamette Valley
Winter composting in the Willamette Valley is possible, but cooler temperatures and frequent rain can slow decomposition and create moisture challenges. Successful winter composting starts with choosing a well-drained location,...
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USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: What Gardeners Shoul...
Use the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map to identify your average annual extreme minimum winter temperature zone, then pair it with chill-hour and site conditions when choosing fruit trees.
USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: What Gardeners Shoul...
Use the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map to identify your average annual extreme minimum winter temperature zone, then pair it with chill-hour and site conditions when choosing fruit trees.
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November Gardening Tips: Your November Garden C...
November gardening depends heavily on your local climate, soil conditions, and frost dates. This complete November gardening checklist helps gardeners decide which tasks are appropriate for their region, from planting...
November Gardening Tips: Your November Garden C...
November gardening depends heavily on your local climate, soil conditions, and frost dates. This complete November gardening checklist helps gardeners decide which tasks are appropriate for their region, from planting...
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Fall Cleanup Tips for Winter Garden Pest Preven...
Fall garden cleanup is an important part of preparing vegetable beds for winter and reducing potential pest and disease problems in spring. Rather than removing everything, effective winter garden pest...
Fall Cleanup Tips for Winter Garden Pest Preven...
Fall garden cleanup is an important part of preparing vegetable beds for winter and reducing potential pest and disease problems in spring. Rather than removing everything, effective winter garden pest...
Watch & Learn - Gardening Videos
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Garden Tip Of The Week
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Harden Off Your Seedlings Before Transplanting ...
Hardening off is the gradual process of preparing indoor-grown seedlings for outdoor conditions such as sunlight, wind, and changing temperatures. Rather than following a fixed schedule, gardeners should adjust exposure...
Harden Off Your Seedlings Before Transplanting ...
Hardening off is the gradual process of preparing indoor-grown seedlings for outdoor conditions such as sunlight, wind, and changing temperatures. Rather than following a fixed schedule, gardeners should adjust exposure...
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Heeling In Bare Root Trees When You Cannot Plan...
Temporarily store a dormant bare root tree by heeling it in, keeping every root covered, moist, cool, and protected until the planting site is workable.
Heeling In Bare Root Trees When You Cannot Plan...
Temporarily store a dormant bare root tree by heeling it in, keeping every root covered, moist, cool, and protected until the planting site is workable.
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Why Plant a Fall Cover Crop?
Build inoculant checks into summer and fall cover-crop planning, including crop compatibility, seed treatment, package coverage, and planting timing.
Why Plant a Fall Cover Crop?
Build inoculant checks into summer and fall cover-crop planning, including crop compatibility, seed treatment, package coverage, and planting timing.
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Cool-Season Seeds to Start for Fall and Winter ...
Plan when to start cool-season vegetables for fall and winter harvests, including brassicas, roots, greens, succession sowing, warm-soil germination, and frost protection.
Cool-Season Seeds to Start for Fall and Winter ...
Plan when to start cool-season vegetables for fall and winter harvests, including brassicas, roots, greens, succession sowing, warm-soil germination, and frost protection.
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June Gardening Activities: Summer Garden Checklist
Use this June garden checklist to manage warm-season sowing, irrigation, mulch, plant support, fruit thinning, garlic harvest, pests, and summer heat.
June Gardening Activities: Summer Garden Checklist
Use this June garden checklist to manage warm-season sowing, irrigation, mulch, plant support, fruit thinning, garlic harvest, pests, and summer heat.
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How to Monitor Codling Moth Activity in Spring
Use pheromone traps and consistent records to detect spring codling-moth flight, establish local timing, and support degree-day monitoring.
How to Monitor Codling Moth Activity in Spring
Use pheromone traps and consistent records to detect spring codling-moth flight, establish local timing, and support degree-day monitoring.
Roots, Blooms & Harvest
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When to Plant Broccoli: Seasonal Planting Diffe...
Broccoli is a cool-season crop that thrives in moderate temperatures, and timing is essential for a successful harvest. Many gardeners wonder when to plant broccoli for the best yield. Knowing...
When to Plant Broccoli: Seasonal Planting Diffe...
Broccoli is a cool-season crop that thrives in moderate temperatures, and timing is essential for a successful harvest. Many gardeners wonder when to plant broccoli for the best yield. Knowing...
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Edible Landscaping with Fruit Trees, Berries & ...
Design an edible landscape with fruit trees, berries, herbs, greens, and flowers while planning for mature size, access, safety, and maintenance.
Edible Landscaping with Fruit Trees, Berries & ...
Design an edible landscape with fruit trees, berries, herbs, greens, and flowers while planning for mature size, access, safety, and maintenance.
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When and How to Fertilize Your Fruit Trees
Healthy fruit production starts with proper nutrition. Applying the right fertilizer for fruit trees ensures steady growth, strong roots, and quality harvests. The best fertilizer for fruit trees varies by...
When and How to Fertilize Your Fruit Trees
Healthy fruit production starts with proper nutrition. Applying the right fertilizer for fruit trees ensures steady growth, strong roots, and quality harvests. The best fertilizer for fruit trees varies by...
