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Dealing with weeds in your garden isn’t a whole lot of fun, is it? I think we all have our most dreaded weeds that are a nightmare to control. So for this week’s garden column, I wrote about why it’s important to keep up with pulling weeds as well as the things we gardeners can do to reduce this odious […]
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Plant Partners: Science-Based Companion Planting Strategies for the Vegetable Gardener by Jessica Walliser (Storey Publishing, 2020, 206 pp., $24.95) by Susan Mulvihill Many gardeners are familiar with the concept of companion planting: some plant combinations promote better growth and production while others inhibit these desirable outcomes. Or do they? A long time ago, I read Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise […]
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In today’s garden column, I talk about organic gardening. This is something that is very easy to do by using good cultural practices. Here is a link to it in The Spokesman-Review: Investigate different ways to control pests. By the way, I hope you’re not getting tired of hearing about floating row cover! I think it is such a great […]
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When I conducted my reader survey recently, I saw a recurring response to my question about your biggest challenges: dealing with weeds! There were other challenges mentioned, too, but we’ll get to those another time. Last year, I wrote a garden column on strategies for both dealing with weeds and preventing weeds from growing in the first place. Here is […]
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Don’t we all hate weeds? After all, they get in the way of the lovely plants we’ve placed in our gardens on purpose. I recently had a request to share some of my weed strategies, so have written a column on that very subject. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Best weeding tools are your […]
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