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    Yellow Perennial Flowers: Bring Sunshine to Your Yard

    Living in Zone 5a impacts a gardener’s desire to extend the season. From the sprouting of the first bulbs in spring to the battle against the first frost in fall (with a yard full of quilts and sheets protecting annual flowers), keeping the floral show live as long as possible is the goal. In...
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    3 Easy Ways To Preserve Garden Harvest

    Summer is the most wonderful time of the year for so many gardeners. Everything is in full bloom and those of us who grow fruits and veggies are up to our elbows in fresh, organic food. It really is the time of plenty, and when we’re in the thick of it, it’s hard to imagine what scarcity feels...
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    3 Design Ideas for a Cattle Panel Trellis

    In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps of building a simple and eye-catching cattle panel trellis to add height and a little bit of wow-factor to your garden. These trellises are the most commented-upon features in my home garden. During harvest season in my garden the plants are...
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    Your Garden Should Make You Feel Good

    In one of the classes I teach we start off with a garden visualization. We close our eyes and imagine ourselves sitting in our summer gardens. (Come on, play along!) It’s one of those crystal clear, blue sky days with no humidity and no mosquitoes (and no weeds?!). Just a perfect summer day...
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    Gorgeous Summer Blooming Perennials

    Are you a vegetable gardener, a perennial gardener, or both? Did pursuing one lead to an interest in the other? I often teach and travel with the Creative Vegetable Gardener, and it’s interesting to meet gardeners from all over the country and discover whether they grow just flowers, just...
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    Colorful and Unusual Bulbs to Plant in Autumn

    If you live in a northern climate like mine, you probably feel color starved by the time spring rolls around each year. After months of looking out your window and seeing endless variations gray, white, and brown, you might start to think you’ve forgotten what other colors look like. That’s why...
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    Pictures of vegetable gardens: the creative + colorful!

    My front yard vegetable garden is a riot of color in the summer. In the darkest months of the year when we can’t be out in our own vegetable gardens, the next best thing is looking at pictures of vegetable gardens. One of the gifts of the off-season is the space and time to dream, imagine, and...
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    5 Unique Ideas For a Beautiful Vegetable Garden

    The first few years of establishing a vegetable garden are focused on learning the ins and outs of growing vegetables. You’re figuring out when to plant each vegetable, which of the thousands of varieties of tomatoes you like best, and how to tell the difference between weeds and newly sprouted...
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    5 Stunning Vegetable and Flower Garden Ideas

    Vegetable gardens are ugly. This is a commonly held belief by a lot of people. Or, at least, vegetable gardens aren’t as pretty as perennial gardens. They should be hidden in your backyard and you should save your front yard for growing trees, shrubs, flowers, and grass. Do you know what I say...
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    17 Purple Vegetables You Need to Grow in Your Garden

    One of the big benefits of growing your own food is the ability to plant vegetables you wouldn’t find while walking down the produce aisle of your local grocery store. You can buy orange carrots, green beans, and red tomatoes anywhere. But, in your garden, you can leave those boring choices...
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    Fabulous Flowers For Raised Beds

    One of my missions is to bust the misconception that vegetable gardens aren’t attractive. I strongly believe that you can have a vegetable garden that produces a lot of food and is beautiful to look at. What’s the secret? Plant lots and lots of flowers among your vegetables. Annuals are my...
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    Our Gardens Yesterday and Today – 1917 cartoon

    Mr. Patriot’s front garden in Town, as it was. And as he hopes to have it this year. Potatoes, Parsnips, Turnips. By W.K. Haselden Daily Mirror, Great Britain 19 Jan. 1917
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    1700’s – The Food Gardens at the Fortress of Louisbourg

    From the Fortress of Louisbourg by SchoolNet Founded in 1713 for its cod fishery, Louisbourg enjoyed three peaceful decades as a French colonial seaport. New Englanders captured the town in 1745, but watched its return to France three years later. The peace was shortlived and in 1758, the...
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    World War 1 Food Garden Parade – video

    World War One Food Garden Parade. circa 1914. Produce from village war gardens on display. Opens with parade. Man leading horse pulling a wagon of produce and Union Jack stuck on front. Boy Scouts walk behind the wagon carrying gardening tools and flags. Then a local marching band. This...
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    1889 – My Handkerchief Garden – A City Farmer in the 1800’s

    My Handkerchief Garden, 1889 By Barnard, Charles, 1838-1920 New York, Garden Publishing 62 pages Excerpts below: At last it was found ; a six-room house with a mere handkerchief of a garden, measuring about one-thirtieth of an acre, or about as big as a city back yard. The soil was a wet...
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    The Earth and I are friends now – 1943 wartime ad – tribute to the new millions of amateur farmers

    1943 National Dairy Products Corporation and affiliated companies “The Earth and I are friends now” Last year I never thought of the earth except as something to walk on. But in the spring I turned up the sod and planted seed. Summer – grubbing for weeds and watching things grow – I got...
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    Maria makes garlic scape pesto at our garden

    Click on the YouTube icon to get a higher quality video. We grow lots of garlic at the Vancouver Compost Garden. But not many people know about scapes, the flowering stems that appear in June about three weeks before the bulbs are harvested. Maria picked some of our scapes and prepared a quick...
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    Aphids on Fava Beans attract beneficial insects

    Click on the YouTube icon to get a higher quality version. Maria uses her macro lens to close in on our Fava Beans, which are covered in black aphids. Instead of reporting a bad news story, she points out all the beneficial insects dining on the aphids and shows us a bucket of ripe beans that...
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    27 Garden Theme Holiday Ornaments

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    Fun and Educational Nature and Gardening Gifts For Kids

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