Starting your own seeds
I used to say that gardeners should start seeds in their homes mainly because it’s fun. I don’t say that
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Gardening How-to
The Potato
They are the fourth largest food crop in the world, packed with nutrition, easy to grow and very versatile in
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Plant seeds or buy plants?
For the past decade, gardeners have been under the spell of big growers about planting your favourite seeds, many from
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Art of Growing Potatoes
Have we lost the art of growing potatoes? At one time, every garden had a potato plot where it was
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Pruning shrubs
New life for old shrubs Nearly all well-established gardens have at least one old shrub which is often ignored until
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Deadheading
Off with their heads! How and why you need to deadhead New gardeners sometimes shy away from cutting back their
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Gardening trends
One of the wonderful things about gardening is its changeability in trends. No two years are ever the same and
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Birch trees in the urban landscape
by Dorothy Dobbie When and where to plant a birch The best time to plant a birch tree is spring
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Basic pruning techniques
by Mike Allen There are some basic pruning techniques that must be followed to enhance and maintain a healthy tree.
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Drought-tolerant plants
Plants have several different ways of dealing with drought. For example, some, like cactus and other succulents, store water in
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