3-31-09 Spring Along with Me In This Issue: March in the Garden Planting Tomatoes Gardenerd Tip of the Week: Free Mulch Product of the Month: Gardenerd Recycled Grocery Tote 1.…
5-21-08 Itchin' For Vacation In This Issue: 1. What's Growin' On in May 2. Vacation Watering 3. Gardenerd Tip of the Month - Shade Gazebo 4.…
4-19-08 Welcome to Spring In This Issue: 1. Clearing the Cobwebs for Spring 2. Organic Gardening Classes - Coming in May! 3. Gardenerd Tip of the Month…
2-02-06 Here Comes Spring In This Issue: Here comes spring! What to Plant Gardenerd Tip of the Month Hats off to spring 1. Here comes spring! No words make my…
Spring starts next week, and if you haven’t started gardening, let this be the call to action. Since we’ve been experiencing technical
difficulties with our search feature on Gardenerd.com, we wanted to offer these helpful posts to help guide your gardening endeavors in the meanwhile.
Seed Starting – start seeds indoors for lettuces, tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash, melons, cucumbers and beans.
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One of the wonderful and often surprising things about being a blogger is that every once in a while companies send you free stuff. They hope
that you’ll review their product and spread the word. Let it be known, if it isn’t already, that I never promote things that I don’t completely believe in, and I don’t get paid to wax rhapsodic
about them.
That said, I was delighted to find …
Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company holds a place in the heart of many an organic vegetable gardener. Their gorgeous seed catalogs are the industry standard of “garden-porn”, with beautiful pictures of
hundreds of varieties many eyes have never seen before.
While away on a writing retreat, I stopped by their West Coast store, the Seed Bank. It is aptly named because it is located inside an old bank. A corner building in the center of town proudly
displays Heirloom Seeds in the two-story bank windows. You can’t miss it.
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There’s a point at which every garden hits autopilot. With a little planning and adequate irrigation it can happen while you’re on vacation. During my trip to Italy my garden took off, and when I got
back it was time to harvest the first fruits of the season. (My apologies to those still covered in snow out there. Your time is coming 
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Some may recall that our community garden plot was going through some hard times last year – excessive zinc in the soil, nematodes – things were just …