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Two Minutes in the Garden

Protecting Your Garden From Deer Damage

Deer can cause a lot of damage to your garden, but there are ways to prevent or reduce it. Learn...

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Baking Soda in the Garden: Is it Really Harmless?

Also known in many parts of the world as bicarbonate of soda or bicarb soda -- you see it...

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Starting Seeds: An Overview

What's the advantage of starting seeds -- especially indoors? What do you need? What do seeds...

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Growing Carrots in Your Garden

Carrots are one of the most popular vegetables to grow in the garden, and you can get them in a...

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Whacking Tree Trunks and Other Strange Garden Tips

Does hitting the trunk of a tree with a baseball bat or or a stick make it produce more leaves --...

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Do Comfrey and Other Plants Grab Nutrients Deep in Our Soil?

In permaculture circles, they're called dynamic accumulators -- plants that accumulate above...

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Humidity and Houseplants - Increasing Humidity Indoors

Humidity doesn't get as much attention as temperature, light and soil moisture, but it can have a...

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Growing and Propagating Aloe vera

It's one of the world's most popular houseplants. Easy to grow and easy to propagate -- and maybe...

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Why Leaves Change Color (and Why Some Don't Fall)

What makes the leaves of some trees change color? Is there a benefit to the trees? And what about...

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Is it Safe to Use Paper in the Garden?

Many gardeners put paper overtop of a lawn to create a new garden bed. Or add paper to their...

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Horticultural Oil: How Does it Work? Is it Safe?

You hear it suggested a lot in gardening circles as a pesticide and maybe even to prevent...

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Why You Can't Have True Blue Roses (and Many Other Popular Flowers)

Blue flowers do exist in nature, but not in many of our most popular flowers. And it's even been...

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Using Human Urine in the Garden -- Benefits and Risks

It's not for everyone, but human urine in the garden has lots of enthusiasts. Urine contains lots...

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Monarch Butterflies and the Garden (Part 2): Milkweed

We've all heard that we should be planting more milkweed to help a declining number of monarchs,...

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Monarch Butterflies and the Garden (Part 1): Migration

They've become poster children for the global decline in insect numbers and they face significant...

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Attracting Dragonflies to Your Garden

They're big and colorful -- powerful fliers that stand out in a crowd. And they eat mosquitoes....

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Can We Sequester More Carbon in Our Garden -- and Should We?

Keeping carbon out of the air and in our garden can help the environment, but can we keep carbon...

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How Plants Capture Carbon and Help the Environment

Carbon sequestration is one way our plants help the environment -- by taking carbon out of the...

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Growing Oak Trees from Acorns

They aren't the world's fastest-growing trees, but you can start with an acorn and -- with some...

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How Oaks Benefit the Garden Ecosystem

Oak trees not only look great, they support a diverse range of birds, insects and other wildlife,...

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