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shopping for seed-starting grow lights, with leslie halleck

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:27:44 GMT

I’M ON MY third generation of seed-starting lights, a journey that began back in the day when shop lights with so-called cool-white and warm-white fluorescent..

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unusual seeds, with nate kleinman of experimental farm network

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 17:55:46 GMT

PARSLEY THAT WAS BRED not for its leaves, but as a root crop. Or a winter squash (above) with vivid green flesh, instead of orange...

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cold-frame 101, with niki jabbour

Sat, 02 Jan 2021 17:32:08 GMT

A NEIGHBOR with a new cold frame emailed me the other day, seeing colder weather finally in the forecast and wanting to know how to..

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our desert-island trees, with ken druse

Sat, 26 Dec 2020 15:54:16 GMT

THEY’RE THE garden’s biggest residents, relative space-hogs who also dictate a lot of what goes on with the patterns of light and shade. I’m talking..

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making the switch to native groundcovers, with duncan himmelman of mt. cuba

Sat, 19 Dec 2020 18:11:10 GMT

I’VE SPOKEN recently on the show about my personal war on certain groundcovers I planted years ago that have turned out to be hideous thugs...

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mastering microgreens, with kate spring of good heart farmstead

Sat, 12 Dec 2020 13:50:10 GMT

A “NEW YORK TIMES” column I did recently happily put me back in touch with organic farmer Kate Spring, who in our past conversations has..

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tuning in to heirloom collards, with chris smith

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 21:18:06 GMT

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES and pumpkins you’ve heard of, but why shouldn’t heirloom collards get just as much love—and space in our gardens? Tell the truth: Have..

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cookies, snacking cakes, pies & more: 5 new books to bake by, with ali stafford

Sat, 28 Nov 2020 20:13:13 GMT

YES, APPARENTLY more people gardened in 2020 than ever. And even before the holiday season was upon us, as it suddenly is, everyone was baking..

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gifts for gardeners: my tried-and-true gear

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 22:26:43 GMT

EVERY YEAR I do a guide of “gifts for gardeners,” and every year it’s the same stuff, basically (how unoriginal and embarrassing). But how can..

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seedlinked: a new way to shop for, learn about and evaluate seeds, with bjorn bergman

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 15:04:00 GMT

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU there’s a new way to shop for seed where your purchase yields not just the packets, but also educational support,..

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comfort books: cozy reads for you or for gifting, with katrina kenison

Sat, 21 Nov 2020 14:49:59 GMT

YOU’VE HEARD OF comfort food and oh boy, have we all been hungry for that non-stop this crazy year. But how about comfort books—whether to..

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time to feed–and count–the birds: project feederwatch, with cornell’s emma greig

Sat, 14 Nov 2020 21:51:58 GMT

A FLOCK OF ROBINS visited my garden recently for a three-day-long field day. By the time they decamped, I was down about 40 mature winterberry..

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desert island shrubs: trying to name our favorites, with ken druse

Sat, 07 Nov 2020 20:17:03 GMT

SHRUBS: I think of them as the sort of human-sized plants, and they definitely are the backbone of the garden. Ken Druse and I each..

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fighting weeds: an all-season approach, with mt. cuba’s duncan himmelman

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 16:15:30 GMT

‘THERE’S ALWAYS a weed out there, no matter when.” That’s what today’s guest, education manager Duncan Himmelman of Mt. Cuba native plant center in Delaware,..

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hot (and cold) garden glimpses as fall abruptly winds down

Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:42:11 GMT

SEEN THIS WEEK in the garden (and originally posted on @awaytogarden Instagram): My “selfish crabapple,” variety ‘Ralph Shay’ (above, with little bluestem grass), whose fruits..

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ho, ho, ho! $10 off till 11/10 on my autographed book

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 19:25:37 GMT

I KNOW, it’s only Back-to-Standard-Time Week (I just made that up), not yet Black Friday (somebody else made that up). But in this most dystopian..

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bee-friendly garden cleanup, with heather holm

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 21:21:34 GMT

IN A RECENT conversation with Doug Tallamy about ecologically minded fall cleanup, he raised the name of Heather Holm, and how some of the pollinator..

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a snail’s tale (win ‘the sound of a wild snail eating’)

Sat, 24 Oct 2020 15:38:20 GMT

IT WAS NO ORDINARY SNAIL; far larger than any familiar native species in my cold zone, and obviously out of place. It was fall 2013,..

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groundcovers: out with the old, in with the natives, with ken druse

Sat, 17 Oct 2020 15:07:01 GMT

WHAT THE WORD “groundcover” means has really changed in the years Ken Druse and I have been gardening. And I’ll admit right here, some of..

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deepening our nature connections, with julie zickefoose

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 19:18:10 GMT

ONE OF THE WAYS many of us have been getting through the last seven months is by taking comfort in the outdoors, in all that..

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