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#FallisforPlanting Shrubs - National Garden Bureau

Victory Garden 2.0 #FallIsForPlanting Shrubs

Fall is the Perfect Time to Plant Shrubs Shrubs are some of the most reliable and hardworking plants in the garden. They are long-lived, big enough to make an impact while still fitting into gardens of any size (even container gardens!), and some offer the same flowers, fragrance, leaf color, or pollinator appeal as your...

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Victory Garden 2.0 #FallisforPlanting Perennials

How-to, Perennials

Tips on planting your perennials this Fall Fall is a great time to add perennials to your Victory Garden 2.0! Fall may be a better time to plant perennials than spring. Like spring, fall has cooler, rainier weather that is more conducive to helping plants establish. Unlike spring, fall doesn’t subject freshly planted perennials to...

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Hydrangea Check Up Time

Planning and Design, Plant Care & Maintenance

Take time for a Hydrangea Check Up Are Your Hydrangeas Blooming? Every gardener I talk to, especially in the northeast and New England, is doing a happy dance this season: their hydrangeas are in full bloom. Despite temperature fluctuations, the sudden freezing temperatures of November 2019, and the wacky late spring weather we had (hailstorms,...

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Bee-Friendly Shrubs & Perennials for your Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Perennials, Planting Tips, Pollinator Gardening

Adding bee-friendly shrubs and perennials to your garden. Bee-friendly and Butterfly-friendly plants continue to pique the interest of gardeners... whether they’re edible growers hoping to lure pollinators to boost the veggie harvest, ornamental gardeners who adore the interest butterflies and bees provide to the landscape or naturalists who wish to help feed and protect bees...

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10 tips for creating your own Pollinator Garden - National Garden Bureau

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Garden Planning & Design, How-to, Pollinator Gardening

10 tips for Planting your Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0 Help the Pollinators with a Victory Garden 2.0 The passion and urgency that inspired the original Victory Gardens are needed today to meet another threat to our food supply and our environment—the steep decline of pollinators. Pollinator decline is an ecological reality of our time, well-publicized...

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5 tips on Building Your Own Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Building A Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed

Garden Planning & Design, How-to

5 tips for building your own Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed Today’s gardeners have more options for where and how to start their gardens than the original Victory Gardeners. Of course, in-ground is always an option, as are container gardens for your Victory Garden 2.0. Raised beds are...

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Victory Garden 2.0 - 10 tips for container gardens - National Garden Bureau

Plant a Container Victory Garden 2.0

Container Gardening, Planting Tips

Ten tips for planting a container Victory Garden 2.0 Grow a Container Victory Garden? Yes, You Can! James H. Burdett did not address container growing in The Victory Garden Manual, but times were different in 1943. Today, growing edibles in containers is probably one of the fastest emerging trends we are seeing. Plus, with vegetable...

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Working with Nature by incorporating Permaculture - National Garden Bureau

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

Foodscaping, Garden Planning & Design, Planning and Design

5 easy ways to create a permaculture garden design leveraging the natural processes to regenerate the ecology of the site. “Permaculture” is one of those words that you hear in gardening enthusiast circles, but what the term means is not exactly well known. This guide will help you understand a bit of what permaculture is...

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Seeds for a new Garden Season - Let's Grow Compact Vegetables - National Garden Bureau

Tasty Compact Vegetable Seeds to Grow

Container Gardening, Planting, Seeds and Seed Starting

Looking for compact vegetable seeds that are easy to grow? Here are some new and old favorites to grow this season. ‘Tis the season of seed catalogs! I love finding them in my mailbox. It’s a wonderful time of year to curl up and read about all the new and old vegetable varieties. A great...

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Perennials for Fall Color!

Perennials

As the season progresses into autumn... We certainly hope to enjoy flowers in the garden as late as possible although we take some solace and enjoyment when seeing the tapestry of rich coloration of fall color throughout our woodlands and gardens. Mother Nature certainly makes the call on when the season's transition and for those...

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Victory Garden 2.0 #FallIsForPlanting Shrubs

Victory Garden 2.0 #FallisforPlanting Perennials

Hydrangea Check Up Time

Bee-Friendly Plants Create a Perfect Pollinator Garden

Pollinator Victory Garden 2.0

Building A Victory Garden 2.0 Raised Garden Bed

Plant a Container Victory Garden 2.0

5 Ways to Incorporate Permaculture Into Your Garden Design

Tasty Compact Vegetable Seeds to Grow

Perennials for Fall Color!

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