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Planting Seed Trays for Your Winter Garden (video)

You may be sitting in a heat wave right now, but it’s time to start planning your winter garden! Master Gardener Jen Aron gets a head start by planting some lettuce seeds in a seed tray. In this demonstration she uses a 72-cell tray, but any size will do. Other possible crops you might want [...]

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Planting Beets

Beets have a sweet, earthy flavor that is unlike any other vegetable I have tasted. And the gorgeous deep ruby red color inspires me to search for new ways to incorporate them in my lunch and dinner plans. Unfortunately, most people have only experienced beets as purple pickled pieces of a stodgy salad. Truthfully, I [...]

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Don’t Throw it, Grow It! 68 Windowsill Plants from Kitchen Scraps

I have to admit that when my husband and I first bought our home a few years back the last thing on my mind was gardening. I was mainly concerned with un-doing all the peach colored paint with gold flecks on the living room walls and what seemed like endless amounts of border and stencil [...]

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