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What Is Organic Gardening and Why Go Organic?

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Cold Frame vs Greenhouse

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Easy Monthly Fall Garden Clean-Up Checklist

Homemade Weed Killers – More Harm Than Good

Planting a Symbolic Garden – Remembering People by Their Plants

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Why Get a Soil Test Done in the Fall?

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What Is This Foam on My Plant?

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Identifying Garden Weeds

Don’t Work Wet Soil

Spring Snows – Can They Hurt Plants?

The 2017 Gardener’s Gift Guide

Garden Travel: The New Jersey Botanical Garden at Skylands Manor

Garden Toads

July in the Garden

Common Garden Pests

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Easy Oatmeal Muffin Recipe

This easy oatmeal muffin recipe makes a tasty breakfast, tea-time treat, or snack. It’s a plain, unassuming, honest muffin: no dripping sweetness, no sugary topping. The freshly cooked old-fashioned oatmeal keeps the batter moist. If you do not overbake them (as I have done in the past), they retain this moist, fluffy texture. No, they…

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How to Start Herb Seeds the Right Way: Free Course

Learn how to start herb seeds the right way with The Herbal Academy’s new, FREE online course! Home Garden Joy is an Herbal Academy affiliate. We love their ebooks and courses. I’ve taken many of them and found them to be very helpful. They get to the heart of herbalism without introducing spiritual aspects in…

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How to Prepare Raised Beds for Spring Planting

The snow and ice have finally melted. In the mornings when I walk my dog through our farm, I can hear a rooster crowing on a neighboring farm. Cardinals have begun singing in the dawn. It’s spring, folks. And while the calendar reminds me we can still feel winter’s icy breath, spring planting is just…

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Swedish Tea Bread

I first made Swedish tea bread for my 50th birthday. Three of my friends have birthdays in the same month and invited me to their family group birthday celebration (they are all relatives). I shaped the bread into braided rings and decorated it with sliced almonds. It was a hit, and I have made it…

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