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September Garden Tips

September Garden Tips

Gardens are now heading into the season finale with harvests of almost everything. Dry weather has been hard on many veggies and flowers but extra mulching and watering can keep plants healthy. This is a good time of year to apply foliar compost tea and your own homemade biofertilizers (see July article). It’s also a good time to get a soil test so you know what is needed for next year.  Tomatoes, peppers, broccoli, and cabbage will do well if…

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August Abundance!

August Abundance!

Despite the lack of rain, it’s great to see your garden in full maturity and producing an abundance of veggies, herbs, flowers, and soon to be harvested potatoes, onions, carrots, beets, and more.  It’s the reward that a hard-working gardener deserves and should enjoy this time of year.  Proper harvesting is key to good production, the more you pick the more you get!  Leaving fruits on plants to get over-ripe or go to seed tells the plants its job is…

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