There are many reasons to mulch vegetable crops, but the biggest reason is to prevent weeds. With 20 raised beds in my garden, I wouldn’t be able to keep up with weeding if I didn’t mulch.

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In today’s digital age, it is more common to find children playing video games and texting friends rather than planting seeds, cultivating young plants, and enjoying the fruits of their labor. Many children no longer know where their food comes from, and they rarely consume enough fresh fruits and vegetables as part of their daily diets. Thats why we need to keep growing more gardeners. 

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Virtues: Spring beauty is a woodland wildflowers that blooms in mid-spring, with delicate-looking flowers that make a big impression when the plant is allowed to colonize. The plant is important as a food source for bees and flies in spring. …

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Specialist iris growers have developed a fantastic array of bearded iris varieties with clear colors, weather-resistant petals and sturdy stems. The advent of Internet buying makes it easier than ever to source new varieties of iris for your garden. However, the sheer number of bearded iris cultivars and the dazzling creativity of their names make choosing any one (or six) an intimidating prospect for novice fanciers. Weve got tips to help you.

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Monochromatic gardens feature plants and flowers that showcase one main color. Of course, there will be other colors that help to raise the focal color to the highest height, but upon first glance monochromatic gardens appear to be all pink, …

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The little hillside was perfectly content with its wildness once, proud of its brazen disarray. It was delightfully unkempt and blissfully uncultivated, dynamic and self-regulating, chaotic and biotic. It maintained a thicket of crisscrossing branches, a stockpile of leaf litter and a healthy collection of decaying detritus, just like the woodlands around it. It was one with the forest, a picture of nature. It was beautifully disorganized, untidily alive.

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Virtues: Nasturtiums add bold, bright color to the garden with their large flowers. Their round foliage and mounded shape make them a great choice for containers, hanging baskets and the edges of beds. Common name: Nasturtium Botanical name: Tropaeolum majus …

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