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Feb 7, 20232 min read
CGS Winter Sowing with Plastic Milk Jugs
MATERIALS Clean, dry, and empty gallon-size milk, vinegar, etc. jugs. Make sure jugs are translucent – light needs to pass through....
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Nov 28, 20222 min read
Three Tools Do So Much!
I spent much of Summer 2019 with my face about 18 inches above the ground. Most of the time, I was installing transplants of native...
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Feb 3, 20223 min read
Prune That Troublesome Limb Out of Your Tree!
How to prune a branch off a tree correctly.
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May 14, 20202 min read
Turning Turf Into Veggies and Native Plants!
How to Turn Old Lawn Into a New Garden This garden belongs to Joanne S. Dole, an experienced organic gardener who teaches at the Columbus...
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Apr 22, 20200 min read
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Apr 22, 20201 min read
Essential Tools & Materials for New Gardeners
NEW GARDENER Buy/Share/Rent LIST OF ESSENTIAL TOOLS & MATERIALS * starred items are the ONLY essential tools you need to get started! *...
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Apr 17, 20203 min read
Build a (Vegetable) Bed
Start building your vegetable bed NOW! Building a great vegetable garden begins with the initial idea to DO IT. In fact, you can grow...
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Apr 3, 20202 min read
Get Outside While the Getting Is Good!
April 3, 2020 Just when you think winter in Ohio will NEVER end, along comes a day like today. Sunny, warm, and just dry enough to turn...
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Mar 30, 20202 min read
SEEKING SEEDS & SEEDLINGS!
Seeds and veggie transplants have been difficult to obtain in some areas this spring. Here are ideas to help you get your garden started ...
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Mar 16, 20203 min read
Perform or perish / An Oakland gardener prefers tough love to spoiling her plants
Written by Tisa Watts, this piece was originally publish January 25, 2006 in the San Francisco (CA) Chronicle. Recently my next-door...
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Mar 16, 20203 min read
Native Bees, Honeybees, and Wasps – Oh My!
Everyone knows the woes of honeybees these days, but do you know about our native bees? In North America, we are home to over 4000...
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Mar 16, 20202 min read
Why Not Compost?
You know you want to. You know you should. But are you going to screw up and make a big stinky mess? Learning to compost discarded plant...
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Jul 21, 20192 min read
State of the Prairie (July 2019)
As many of you know (and may have seen), I’ve been hard at work building a prairie in our front yard. We’re blessed with a big suburban...
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Mar 4, 20192 min read
Neonics, greenhouse plants, and pollinators
I recently received a question about mail-order plants and the widespread use of insecticides commonly called “neonics” (neonicotinoids)...
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Mar 4, 20191 min read
Stumped by "stump pruning"
This is a great example of what happens after a tree is “stump pruned.” For some reason (unresolved hostility, perhaps?), a...
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