Many of the new Echinaceas have been appearing in our local garden centers. Most of us aren’t going to be able to resist buying them to join our other coneflowers, […]

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With food prices rising more and more people are starting vegetable gardens. Our local Agway ran out of certain types of seed very early in the season and I noticed […]

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We dead head plants (if we can find the time) for a number of reasons. One is too keep the plant from setting seed. A large amount of a plant’s […]

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Companion gardening is the planting of two or more plants in close proximity for the benefit of one or all of them.  Benefits provided by the companion plant may include: […]

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The chemicals we put on our roads and sidewalks to melt ice and snow all work in the same way; they depress the freezing point of water by adding dissolved […]

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