Be on the Lookout for These Bugs!

 |  25th Apr 2011  |  Filed under Home Pest Control, Using Organics

Bugs to Look Out for This Spring

Spring brings about many wonderful things – birds chirping, flowers growing, days spent outdoors. It also is a time where we notice little creepy crawlers! Four common bugs that we find in our homes or gardens include bed bugs, ticks, grub, and aphids. You can alleviate critter concerns by learning a little bit about each and how to solve your insect problem&hellip

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Your Spring Garden Checklist

 |  13th Apr 2011  |  Filed under Flower Gardening, Lawn & Landscape, Vegetable Gardening

Your garden is ready to get to work this spring, but you’re not sure where you need to get started! Use this handy list of tasks to get your garden cleaned up and ready to grow!f

Take a walk – walk around your garden and take inventory of plants that survived the winter and plants that may needreplaced
Pick up – collect any trash or stray papers that may have landed in your gardens or&hellip

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Give Your Garden a Head Start

 |  13th Apr 2010  |  Filed under Vegetable Gardening

Location: WI

Living in Wisconsin means dealing with a short growing season and there is nothing I like better than eating fresh vegetables I’ve grown in my own garden… So I start them indoors from seeds.

There are so many advantages to starting garden seeds indoors. You’ll control your harvest from seed to table . . . no potential of bringing home problems from the nursery and&hellip

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Dreaming of the Perfect Garden

 |  21st Mar 2010  |  Filed under Vegetable Gardening

Location: Vermont

March has always been a time to dream of the perfect garden. In the 18th century Miss Lucy Pegram Blow drew the sketch below. No still too cold outside to plant, the day when she sat by the fire and drew out her dream of summer bliss.

 

Here’s an artist’s rendering of what this 18th century garden looked like in full&hellip

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