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Transplant Time is Here

Transplant Time is Here

June brings better gardening weather, what a welcome change!  Although it’s been dry for Vermont spring, recent rains have created a great time 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…

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Transplant Time is Coming, Are Your Plants Ready?

Transplant Time is Coming, Are Your Plants Ready?

Whether you grow your own seedlings (Congratulations!) or buy your garden plants, they will need some preparation for the transition out to the “real world”.  There are big differences between indoors (house or greenhouse) and the tough world outside and plants need a little help to adapt to those hard conditions outside.  This process is called “hardening off” and it is easy if you follow these basic steps.  Hardening off is a stressful transition for plants because they have to…

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