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Are Your Plants Ready?

Are Your Plants Ready?

June brings better gardening weather, what a welcome change!  Although it’s been dry for Vermont spring, recent rains have created better conditions to get new plants into their outdoor homes for the summer.  Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, onions, and salad greens have mostly been planted out.  It’s time for heat loving plants like basil, tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, squash, okra, sweet potatoes, & peppers to be in the ground.  Annual flowers like geraniums, petunias, marigolds, nasturtiums, and snapdragons will do well outside…

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The Great Tomato Race!

The Great Tomato Race!

Rain or shine, our gardens are now heading into the home stretch with tomatoes leading the way!  Tomatoes are actually sub-tropical plants and don’t know that winter is coming so they are still growing and producing as though they have many months ahead.  We know better and there are several things we can do right now to get the most out of what’s left of this year’s growing season for tomatoes and our other gardening investments.  Despite the calendar and…

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At Last, Transplant Time

At Last, Transplant Time

The end of May has brought almost ideal gardening weather, what a welcome change!  Although it’s been a bit dry for Vermont spring, it looks like a great time to get all those ready-to-go plants into their new homes for the summer.  It’s still a little early for some heat loving plants like basil, tomatoes, beans, artichokes, okra, & peppers, but almost everything else can move out.  Some adventuresome gardeners have already planted out their tomatoes and they might do…

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