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Grow So Easy – Planting Cool Weather Crops Like Beets
One season gardening used to be all I did. Put in the plants in the spring, harvest in July, August and sometimes in September and clean up in October. Then the prices of organic produce shot through...
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Grow So Easy – Planting Lettuce In the Dead Of Winter!
This winter, according to Accuweather, my Mid-Atlantic zone is running about 10 degrees colder than normal. I would say so! With wind chills, we have hit negative numbers like -17 and -24 degrees....
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Grow So Easy – Garlic – How To Grow & Harvest It
I got lucky when I married Italian because garlic is, was and always will be one of my favorite foods in the kitchen. And it’s one of my favorites to plant. Garlic is another crop that basically takes...
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Grow So Easy – Fall Garden Clean Up
How much do you hate cleaning up your garden in the fall? I used to. When I looked out my kitchen window and saw more brown than green, I would grimace and think, “…next weekend.” Inevitably, clean...
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Grow So Easy Organic: How To Grow Great Green Cucumbers
One of my favorite, childhood memories is eating cool crisp cucumber slices on homemade bread slathered with mayonnaise. My mom could raise just about anything but she really got a ton of cucumbers...
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Grow So Easy Organic – Find Free Tools to Start Your Garden
Want to start organic gardening but don’t want to spend a lot of money? You can and it’s pretty darned easy. Unlike traditional gardening, if you go organic, there are a lot of things you will NEVER...
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Avoid GMO Food – GROW YOUR OWN!
Cool weather and cool raised bed of a 55 Chevy truck making for happy lettuce, spinach and onions. Organic gardening is the easiest, best way to avoid all the GMO foods currently on the market –...
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COLD Air in the Mid-Atlantic & My Garden is Shivering!
Holy cats! It’s so cold here that the heat came on last night! Temps dropped into the low 40’s and the wind has been keeping up a constant dialogue, sweeping across my recently planted veggie babies...
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Japanese Beetles Decimating My Plants
It must be July. This is the month when the Japanese Beetles swarm in, over and under all of my plants and make veritable skeletons where once there was beautiful green. Japanese beetles turned this...
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Water Saving Tips From EarthEasy
I tend to save water all year round and as much as possible. But the heat waves of July and August and the temperatures in the high 90’s just remind us all that water conservation should be an integral...
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How Easy Is Organic Gardening? Very!
Organic gardening is easy to do. I wrote Grow So Easy; Organic Gardening for the Rest of Us for a young woman who wanted to go organic but was sure it was just too hard to do. I also wrote it because I...
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When To Plant Veggies
It’s that time of year…finally! I think I can actually start planning on putting out some of my home-grown plants. Weather in zone 6B has finally moderated. No more wild extremes like 81 degrees on...
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Tips for Fall Garden Clean Up
My garden in July, 2016. T.S. Eliot got it wrong. April isn’t the cruelest month; it’s September. It’s the time of year when your garden goes from lush, green, verdant… Garden clean up in progress To...
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Free Organic Gardening Book
If you ever wanted to learn all about organic gardening, the good, the bad and the ugly…just sign up for this blog and sit back. Every week or so, I am going to upload a chapter of my organic gardening...
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Practical Organic Gardening – Free Book – Chapter 3
Only one chapter today because it’s a long one. It you want to garden, DO NOT invest a lot of money in tools…just read on to find you how you can get started for next to nothing… So, what makes organic...
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Practical Organic Gardening – Free Book – Chapters 4 & 5
Today we look at weeding and feeding! Again, this is so simple I wonder why EVERYONE doesn’t do it. And, if you have some initiative, feeding your soil won’t cost you a dime! Raising your own food is...
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Practical Organic Gardening – Growing Tomatoes!
Fox Cherry tomatoes are a staple in my garden. As promised, it’s time to start thinking about what to plant. Most gardeners, me included, rely on one summertime favorite, the tomato, to grace their...
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Practical Organic Gardening – Free tips on Growing Lettuce
Red Butterhead lettuce makes a soft, beautiful head that’s perfect for salads. I love raising my own lettuce. It’s a love born out of hate. That sounds like an oxymoron but it isn’t. I started...
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Free Organic Gardening Book – How to Grow Beets
One season gardening used to be all I did. Put in the plants in the spring, harvest in July, August and sometimes in September and clean up in October. Then the price of organic produce shot through...
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Free Organic Gardening Book – How To Grow Peppers
Pepper seedlings It’s way too cold to put any warm weather plants out including peppers. But it’s not way too cold out to figure out if you want to grow peppers and if you do, what kind you want to...
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