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Leaflet Spring 2023
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Gardener's checklist for spring
It's a busy time in the garden. There are weeds to be pulled, edible crops to be sown, and pests to manage. Don't forget to nurture your soil with a layer of compost and mulch. Here's a full list of springtime chores...
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Ready to start your spring edibles garden? How about some squash?
Zucchini has a bad reputation. Tales abound of zucchini taking over the vegetable garden, crowding out green beans and tomatoes, growing as long as baseball bats overnight...
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Welcome a beautiful blooming camellia to your landscape
Searching for an attractive, evergreen, blooming shrub for your garden? Perhaps a camellia is in your future...
Leaflet Winter 2022-23
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Why you should nix the "neonics"
Neonicotinoids, often called “neonics,” are the most widely used class of insecticides in the world. These neurotoxins are used on food crops as well as ornamentals...
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Emergency! Wake up call for our beloved monarch butterflies!
Who doesn’t thrill at the sight of a fluttering monarch, flitting from flower to flower, sipping nectar and spreading pollen? Well, folks, the Western Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is close to the extinction level...
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Gardener's checklist for winter
Here's a a month-by-month to-do list to keep your garden in tip top shape in the winter.
Leaflet Fall 2022
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Gardener's checklist for fall
It's a dry year, no doubt about it, but there are still apples to harvest, bulbs and cover crops to plant, and tools to clean. Here's a a month-by-month to-do list to keep your garden in tip top shape in the fall.
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Try your hand at growing mushrooms – no garden required!
Many of our local farmer’s markets offer an expansive variety of mushrooms with fabulous enticing names: lion’s mane, Matsutake, charcoal burner, hedgehog, oyster...
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Oakleaf hydrangea
Oakleaf hydrangeas offer year-round interest to the garden. In spring, the young leaves unfurl bright green and fuzzy...
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What to do with that rake in the fall
There’s nothing like the glowing presence of autumn colors, each brilliant red, orange, and yellow leaf backlit by the sun...
Leaflet Summer 2022
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Gardener's checklist for summer
More heat, less water. This year it's more important than ever to keep a layer of mulch in the garden, pluck water-hogging weeds, and thin fruit on fruit trees. Keep up with garden chores for your best summer garden ever.
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Garden myths busted
Unsure what's fact and what's fiction when it comes to gardening? Gardening myths are as common as blackbirds in a sunflower field. Some have just become bad habits; others have been passed down for generations...
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When gardening is a slippery slope
Hillside gardening requires a little more of the gardener: more attention to safety, more specialized techniques for stabilizing the slope, and in many cases, more money...
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Verbena bonariensis: a see-through plant that enlivens the summer garden
Verbena bonariensis, aka purpletop verbena, is a tall, airy plant with clusters of two to three-inch purple flowers on long, airy stems that bloom mid-summer till frost...