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July Gardening

July Gardening

This is the time of peak flowers and rapidly growing fresh veggies, weeds and pesty bugs.  It’s the best of gardening and time to enjoy all your work coming into fruition. There is also work to do. Mulching and fertilizing, regular weeding, watching for pests (bugs & critters) but also early harvests have begun, and succession plantings can start. In this article I’ll cover some ideas about converting weeds to fertilizer, mulching, planting, and hilling potatoes. Weeds are simply taking…

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Companion & Succession Planting

Companion & Succession Planting

Garden planting and transplanting is now in full swing and everything we want to grow can be planted out including favorites like tomato & pepper plants, squashes, potatoes, onion sets, broccoli, herbs, or greens.  But one question remains, which plants make good garden companions with each other, and which do not?   Plants affect their neighbors and the soil around them so we should try to place compatible or non-competitive plants near each other when possible.  A similar principle applies when…

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Companion Planting & Succession Planting

Companion Planting & Succession Planting

Garden planting and transplanting is now in full swing and everything we want to grow can be planted out from now on.  It’s even not too late for planting of favorites like tomato & pepper plants, squashes, potatoes, onion sets, or greens.  But one question remains, which plants make good garden companions and which do not?   Plants affect their neighbors and the soil so we should try to place compatible or non-competitive plants near each other when possible.  A similar…

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Companion Planting & Succession

Companion Planting & Succession

Garden planting and transplanting is now in full swing.  If we can avoid any more cold spells pretty much everything we want to grow can be planted from now on.  But one question remains, who makes good garden companions, who do not?   Plants affect their neighbors and the soil so we should try to place compatible or non-competitive plants near each other when possible.  A similar principle applies when deciding which plant follows recently removed ones (succession).  We don’t want…

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