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Month: December 2023

Winter Gardening

Winter Gardening

The 2024 gardening season has begun with the arrival of new seed catalogs!  Mid-winter is the ideal time to take inventory of what happened in 2023, which seeds will be needed and begin preparations for the next gardening season.  It’s also important to take care of indoor plants and get started with early pruning of woody plants when we have an occasional nice winter day.  Here are some details… Got seeds?  Before ordering new seeds, I like to check my…

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Christmas Tree Care

Christmas Tree Care

Here are three simple tips that will help your Christmas tree stay green and hold its needles longer:  1)  Just before placing your tree in the stand, cut off 2 inches from the trunk bottom so there is a fresh wood exposed to submerge in the water.  If the cut surface has dried out after being cut it can no longer take up water. 2)  Always refill the stand reservoir with clean warm water through the holidays.  All cut plants…

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