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Lavender Recipes for Health and Beauty - Year of the Lavender - National Garden Bureau

Lavender Recipes for Health and Beauty

DIY Crafts & Gifts, How-to
Easy Lavender Recipes to make at home from your garden The whole world is in love with lavender right now! This fragrant herb has become a key ingredient in almost every type of body care and home product on the market.  The easily recognizable scent is both calming and cleansing.  They say there are over...
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"There is Corn in Egypt" Salad Recipe - National Garden Bureau

What to Do With a Bounty of Corn?

Recipes
A delicious summer corn salad recipe filled with your garden bounty! To celebrate the Year of the Corn, garden communicator Shelley S. Cramm, author of God’s Word for Gardeners Bible, shared her corn salad recipe, with a little background on the ingredients and their Biblical connection.* “There is Corn in Egypt” Salad This side dish...
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Hydrangea Check Up Time - National Garden Bureau

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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Victory Garden 2.0 Summer Maintenance

Plant Care & Maintenance
Summer Maintenance Tips for Your Victory Garden 2.0 “When the pandemic hit, I decided to plant a vegetable garden.” I’ve heard this from consultation clients and Plantrama listeners for the past three months, and my response is always the same. “Congratulations! You made a terrific choice.” I recognize that the stress of the COVID crisis...
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Ask An Expert: Growing Watermelon in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Planting
15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Watermelon Yes, You Can! Growing Watermelon in your Victory Garden 2.0 During the summer, watermelon is the favorite “must-have" way to beat the summer heat. Take your Victory Garden 2.0 up a notch by enjoying the fun and excitement of growing watermelon. Yum! You won't believe what...
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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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15 questions answered about growing strawberries in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask An Expert: Growing Strawberries in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Planting
15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Strawberries Growing Strawberries in your Victory Garden 2.0 You've tackled tomatoes, peppers, and wildflowers, so now what should you add to your Victory Garden 2.0? Strawberries! Strawberries are a fun addition that can easily be grown in gardens, containers, and window boxes! Think strawberry shortcake, strawberry pie,...
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Growing Wildflowers in your Victory Garden 2.0 - National Garden Bureau

Ask An Expert: Growing Wildflowers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

Flower Gardening, How-to, Pollinator Gardening
15 How-To Questions Answered About Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Ask An Expert: Growing Your Own Wildflower Garden Wildflowers are one of Mother Nature’s loveliest gifts and a perfect addition to your Victory Garden 2.0. Their changing panorama of colors, shapes, sizes, and heights provides delight throughout the seasons. Wildflowers can be used anywhere. In...
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Ask An Expert about Growing Peppers for your Victory Garden 2.0

Ask An Expert: Growing Peppers in Your Victory Garden 2.0

How-to, Vegetables
Successfully Growing Peppers in Your Victory Gardens 2.0 With so many different varieties, shapes, sizes, colors, and degrees of hotness, you can imagine why peppers are a very popular and desired vegetable to add to any Victory Garden 2.0. Did you know the pepper is a nutritional powerhouse? A serving of the most popular type...
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