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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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Pay it 4ward: Stylists plant garden for their boss recovering from multiple surgeries

September 9, 2021 admin

“But the time that she did spend here, they just wanted to make sure that she was happy and she was loved,” said Graves.

Blake was so impressed by the garden James and Mary planted for their boss, she contacted KOB 4 to help Pay it 4ward with $400.

Blake told James and Mary they were having their picture taken for something else.

“I know that your owner is Trish, but that’s also your sister and your friend, and I know that you feel for her having had so many surgeries. So as a thank you, I just want to

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Lose the lawn: This Ann Arbor group will plant native gardens for free

September 7, 2021 admin

ANN ARBOR, MI — Vera Irwin doesn’t understand grass.

That is, she doesn’t understand why anyone would want a lawn full of it.

“It’s not pretty,” said Irwin, of Ann Arbor. “It requires maintenance for nothing. It’s your Saturday, Sunday. Why would you get on your tractor and make sure you have short grass?”

Irwin isn’t alone. She’s one of 57 people who had gardens of native plants installed or supported by Adapt: Community-supported Ecology last year.

Adapt, founded and directed by William and Nell Kirst, is an Ann Arbor-based volunteer organization that installs native plant gardens in people’s yards

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Plant These Fruiting Ground Covers in Your Forest Garden

August 15, 2021 admin

As a forest garden designer, I often focus on trees, upright shrubs, and canes when thinking about obtaining a yield of fruit. But even the ground cover layer in a forest garden can provide a yield of this type. Fruiting ground cover plants are useful for suppressing weeds and unwanted growth, conserving moisture, and reducing evaporation from the soil. They can also fulfill a range of other ecosystem functions.

Before planting any new ground cover, check with your regional University Extension office or a local garden center expert for advice on plants that may be invasive in your area.

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Senegalese plant circular gardens in Green Wall defence | Senegal News

July 31, 2021 admin

Every night, Moussa Kamara works at his bakery preparing hundreds of loaves. But at sunrise, instead of going home to sleep, he now starts a second back-breaking job – hoeing the earth and tending newly sown seeds in a specially designed circular garden.

Kamara, 47, believes the garden will prove even more important than the bakery in the future for feeding his extended family, including 25 children, and other residents of Boki Dawe, a Senegalese town near the border with Mauritania.

He is part of a project that aims to create hundreds of such gardens – known as “Tolou Keur”

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What to Plant in the Fall for the Lushest Garden You’ve Ever Seen

July 26, 2021 admin

Your summer garden may be at the height of its beauty right now, but there’s still tons of time to add plants that will extend gardening season well into fall. In fact, many flowers and edibles don’t really start to shine until autumn’s sunny days and cooler nights arrive. Annual and perennial flowers and many vegetables will keep producing all the way until a hard freeze. Just make sure when planting perennials, which return for many years, that they can survive winters in your USDA Hardiness zone (find your zone here). Also, most perennials need to be planted at

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