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  • Berries In the Home Garden

    Berries In the Home Garden

    What’s better than harvesting your own fresh berries for dessert or breakfast every day? It’s easy to do and won’t require much space in…

  • Lions, Tigers and Dragons

    Lions, Tigers and Dragons

    We often focus on insect pests in the garden, like aphids. In this post, I would like to introduce you to some of our…

  • June Gardening ‘To Do’ List

    June Gardening ‘To Do’ List

    Direct sow warm season veggies like corn, beans, cukes and squash and flowering annuals like nasturtium, cosmos etc. Spring Bulbs –Cut flower stems of…

  • What can I do about Japanese Beetles?

    What can I do about Japanese Beetles?

    Hand Removal in the morning or evening is one of the best solutions in dealing with Japanese Beetles, but here are some further suggestions…

  • Berries in the Home Garden

    Berries in the Home Garden

    by Halton Master Gardener, Liza Drozdov In this issue, the first of our 4 part series on berries, we’ll focus on strawberries and raspberries.…

  • May Garden ‘To Do List’

    May Garden ‘To Do List’

    When is it time to prune your roses? Check the May Garden ‘To Do’ List to find out when and learn much more about…

  • All About Groundcovers

    All About Groundcovers

    Groundcovers can be useful and time saving plantings to incorporate into your garden design.

  • The Magic of Moss

    The Magic of Moss

    The Magic of Moss – Moss can be used as mulch, in Fairy Gardens and was even once used for bandages as recently as…

  • From Seeds to Garden Transplants –    Part 2 of 5

    From Seeds to Garden Transplants – Part 2 of 5

    Last month I wrote about preparing your grow light set up for starting seeds indoors, and this month we will discuss planting your seeds…

  • Plants as Mulch

    Plants as Mulch

    As experienced gardeners, we all know that if there’s bare soil, a plant will take its place, usually an opportunistic plant with more aggressive…

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