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25.06.18 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Moneysaving Tips for Gardeners

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Dirt Cheap Garden Ideas Not everyone can afford a bath size water garden kit, but what about using an old tub that was cast off from a remodeling project? What about old teacups turned into bird feeders? Or signs made out of old lumber, or the newest trend… making stuff out of wooden pallets? In the…

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22.08.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Tomato Troubles

August + gardening tips

I have large tomatoes, plenty of them…that is not the trouble. Hornworms. and cracking, those are the troubles. Right now, I am picking the fruits just turning red and ripening them on my window. Hornworms are officially called Manduca quinquemaculata. As caterpillars they are voracious pests, munching through incredible amounts of your tomato harvest. How To…

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28.06.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

If You Need To Save On Water In The Garden

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At the time I write this June is closing. We have plenty of moisture in the ground this year, but that is not always the case. Especially as the summer marches on, drought becomes a real possibility. A few water saving tips can make a difference in how your plants weather the heat and dry times…

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27.03.16 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Tip for Blooming Peonies

Garden Perennial Plants + gardening tips

Planting Depth For Peonies . “Plant peonies for a lifetime of spring flowers, but remember not more than three inches below the surface” From Kim, Hypertufagardener If the growing points are too far below the soil surface, it hinders or even prevents the plant from blooming. A general rule is to place the plant about…

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26.03.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

10 Useful Gardening Tips For Spring

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I gathered up some expert gardening tips from around the web, from beginners to a few unusual ones. 1 Soak your seedlings …the roots of the seedlings become so entangled that separating them without damaging the roots is not easy to do. What can you do in such a case? Fortunately, here’s a trick that…

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09.08.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List

Featured + garden basics + gardening tips + using garden tools

The Bare Essentials Some essentials when brand new I’ve done a lot of tweeting and writing about weeding this season. There are a couple of reasons for that including the unusually wonderful weather (from my perspective, anyway), and my desire to have my yard look like I actually garden, despite many trips to visit the…

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07.05.14 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Ready To Eat Local? How About Slow Gardening?

Featured + Food + gardening tips

Go Slow Slow Food and Slow Gardening are related. What is slow food you ask? Sourcing your ingredients locally and using high quality is the gist of it. Growing your own would be a part of it, but patronizing the farmer’s markets and encouraging your grocer’s to supply locally produced products would be part of…

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08.12.13 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Christmas Gardening

gardening tips + winter

originally posted Dec 1, 2008 Christmas gardening isn’t really winter gardening. It is set apart quite like the holiday itself. The Christmas garden might find itself lit up as we brave the cold to string lights on our bushes and along the eaves of the porch. Some of us can’t resist a few evergreen or…

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17.07.11 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Answering more of your questions

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In the interest of how people find my gardening pages I occasionally see certain questions pop up. If I were the searcher I would like those answered. After you garden for awhile you sometimes forget how many things were a mystery at first. So to the person who asked,”What is peat moss used for in…

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07.07.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Mid July Chores

garden chores + gardening tips + July

It finally heated up and this is what we expect in July: hot muggy weather. It is time to keep up with the weeds, hoeing them out in the morning means that the hot sun is killing the weeds and not you. Afternoons are made for sipping lemonade in the shade of a tree. Look…

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