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A robust example of small-space gardening is on Lakeside Garden Tour

August 4, 2022 admin

Tom Hickey calls the small cottage gardens that surround his east side home his Garden of Eden.

“When we walk out into our garden, all the shrubs and trees make it feel like we are enclosed in an area far away from the city. When it’s in full bloom, it looks like everything is woven together. It looks like an impressionist painting. It’s our little Garden of Eden,” he said.

He also calls the gardens in his 40-by-120-foot lot “organized chaos.”

“There is a lot of stuff packed in this little yard,” he said of the gardens he has tended

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Man Gives Chunk the Groundhog His Own Garden to Eat Crops

August 2, 2022 admin

When Jeff Permar of Middletown, Delaware, noticed that the veggies in his garden were being eaten, he was determined to find the culprit. It wasn’t just some nibbling here and there, either. In all his 20 years of gardening, Permar says he’d never seen so much damage: “Everything I was planting was getting eaten to shreds.” He suspected the culprit lived under his shed, so he installed a motion-detecting camera nearby and waited. After catching some other greedy critters, the camera finally captured footage of the animal guilty for most of the damage: a groundhog, whom Permar named Chunk. The

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Innovate to pollinate: hi-tech ways to welcome insects into your garden

August 1, 2022 admin

When you are sitting in your garden, cup of tea in hand, do you find yourself grumbling when you spot a beetle nibbling your hydrangeas or a fly landing on your prized patch of raspberries? Or do you welcome these tiny visitors, as part of the life of your garden?

Some creatures are difficult to like but, as the threat of an insect apocalypse looms, it is clear we need to try harder to get along. In Britain, flying insects alone have declined as much as 60 per cent in the past 20 years, a survey by Buglife and Kent

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1,000 Pound Statue of “World Famous Cow” Installed at Botanic Garden in Traverse City

July 31, 2022 admin

The Botanic Garden in Traverse City welcomed a new addition on Friday in the form of a 1,000 pound cow statue.

The statue is of a world famous cow called Colantha, and it’s part of the new Children’s Sensory Garden at Historic Barnes Park.

Efforts for the new garden is headed by the Friendly Garden Club.

Sandi Clark, president of the Friendly Garden Club, says it’s been their dream to establish a children’s garden.

“Over the last two years we’ve had extensive planning sessions and engaged a landscape architect to help us design the garden,” Clark explains. “The whole theme

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A Garden Maker’s Creed: How to Make A Garden And Tend Your Soul

July 29, 2022 admin

Christie Purifoy is a writer who loves to grow flowers and community. Seriously, her garden is BLISS. And her book Garden Maker is both poetic and practical. I genuinely LOVE this book! In its beautiful, photo-filled pages, you’ll find everything you need to get started growing your own flowers, and you’ll drink deeply of the wonder and wisdom our God offers us only in the garden. It is with deepest gratitude and joy that we welcome Christie to the farm’s table today…

Guest Post by Christie Purifoy

Flower gardens don’t begin with flowers. They don’t even begin with seeds. They

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Garden Talk: 8 things to do in Michigan gardens right now

July 28, 2022 admin

Sometimes we forget that gardening is done gradually throughout the growing season. There are several important actions to take in our gardens right now.

Let’s divide the gardens into flower gardens, vegetable gardens and our biggest garden: our lawns.

Flower gardens are filled with hungry plants right now.

There are at least two months of bright beauty left from annual flowers. This means we need to fertilize for blossoms, and fertilize sufficiently. I want to tell you to fertilize heavily, but you can fertilize too much. If you don’t know how to decide which fertilizer analysis to use, just get

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What garden plants grow best in the fall and when should you plant?

July 26, 2022 admin

Nobody can out-garden Mother Nature. I don’t care how many certificates, degrees, or other accolades you have framed and hung on your wall or how much dirt is stuck under your fingernails — weather eventually outlasts us all.

No matter how judiciously you’ve staked and trained your tomatoes, pulled weeds, and managed moisture in the garden ground, we’re now moving into the dog days of summer. Plants in the veggie garden will have either bolted, succumbed to one or another insects or diseases, or been eaten by the neighborhood deer.

And if they haven’t yet, their time is coming soon.

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