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  1. Gardening Articles - Lose Weight with your Home Vegetable Garden

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-29
    I love the commercial where they show a heavy set man getting ready to get on the treadmill to do his daily exercise routine. He starts stretching, bending and moving as if he is getting his body rea...
  2. Tobacco Makes a Very Picky Crop

    by Garson Smart - 2009-06-28
    If you love cigars--if you're a true cigar aficionado--you probably wonder, every now and again, what life is like for the hard-working folks who grow the tobacco for your favorite cigars.Well, if it'...
  3. Gardening Articles - Home Vegetable Gardening: Concentrate on Planting

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-27
    What does it mean to concentrate? By definition it means to focus in on something and ignore the surroundings. In home vegetable gardening the definition is fairly similar, except we do not ignore a...
  4. Gardening Articles - Home Vegetable Gardening: Practice Intercropping to Use More Space

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-26
    Back when I first started home vegetable gardening, what seems like many many moons ago, I never even heard of intercropping. In fact the first time I even heard the word I thought someone had made i...
  5. Gardening Articles - Desert Landscaping Styles

    by STEVE BOULDEN - 2009-06-25
    Deserts are defined not by heat, but by aridity. Most deserts have less than 10 inches of rainfall a year, and this is the natural situation in significant parts of the south-west of the United States...
  6. Gardening Articles - Going Organic Can Sometimes be out of Your Control

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-24
    There will come a time when you do everything right for your vegetable garden, family, pets, kids and so on, to make sure you are going as "organic" as possible, only to have something out of your con...
  7. Gardening Articles - Three Tools the Home Vegetable Gardener Can't Live Without

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-23
    When I started vegetable gardening I was a mere seven years old. I would go out and help my dad turn the soil over, plants some seeds, even bury the food waste in the backyard. Of course back then b...
  8. Gardening Articles - A Greener Option In Grow Light Systems

    by SUSAN SLOBAC - 2009-06-22
    Many indoor gardeners are looking for ways to cut energy consumption. Greenhouses require a great deal of energy to run the lights, fans, heaters and all the myriad other equipment needed to keep the...
  9. Gardening Articles - Vegetable Gardening: Help My Squash are being Attacked!

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-22
    I have been growing squash (zucchini variety) for 7 years in my home vegetable gardening. They are easy to grow and the few plants I do have produce a harvest that supplies my entire family as well a...
  10. Business Articles - High Output LED Grow Lights Leads To Superior Plant Growth

    by SUSAN SLOBAC - 2009-06-22
    If you are a commercial plant grower or hydroponic gardener, you know that speed in getting your plants from seedlings to marketable size rapidly means the difference between making a profit and not. ...
  11. Construction Articles - How to build a Garden Bridge at Handcrafted garden bridges.

    by JOE GURARO - 2009-06-20
    Most people think it would be very difficult to build a garden bridge but wood craftsman Joe at www.RedwoodgardenBridges.com says" A person with basic woodworking skills can easily build a simple gar...
  12. Understanding Organic Gardening

    by tommyd - 2009-06-19
    If you have a passion for gardening and you have never tried organic gardening then why not try it. It requires a lot of work, but it can be done. Some people start it as a hobby and let it grow from ...
  13. Gardening Articles - Garden Design - Considering Microclimates And Planning

    by STEVE BOULDEN - 2009-06-15
    Wherever you live, and whatever the weather conditions in your area, your garden will have its own special climate - its microclimate - brought about by a number of factors working together. The facto...
  14. Gardening Articles - Vegetable Gardening: Can I Grow Celery?

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-11
    How do you determine which vegetables you grow in your home garden? I was recently watching a television program about gardening and the host was interviewing a home owner and the vegetable garden th...
  15. Gardening Articles - Vegetable Gardening: Is there a right time to water the garden?

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-08
    It is Monday morning and it is raining cats and dogs. You think to yourself that the buckets of water that are falling out of the sky are a good thing. Good because your vegetable garden really does...
  16. Gardening Articles - Vegetable Gardening: Succession Cropping

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-06
    In the early spring, the cooler months, that is when I get my spinach, radishes and lettuce in the ground. Within a month or so I have fresh vegetables ready to be harvested. The only problem is onc...
  17. Gardening Articles - Six Vegetable Gardening Questions you Need Answered

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-05
    When is it safe to plant vegetables outdoors? You log on to the USDA website, find the frost map for the United States, look up your zone and low and behold it is time to plant. But wait there's mor...
  18. Sometimes You Feel Like A Nut And Sometimes A Fruit?

    by Bruce A Tucker - 2009-06-03
    According the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, the industry that produces and sells nuts and fruits make up a large part of the diet for many people here in the Unite...
  19. Gardening, Vegetable Gardening: Improve Your Soil's Conditions with these Four Items

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-06-02
    I have been vegetable gardening for a very long time. In that time I have come across a lot of things I should have been doing, and many things I should not have been doing. For example on the "do n...
  20. Gardening, Vermicomposting Tips for your Vegetable Garden

    by MICHAEL PODLESNY - 2009-05-31
    Vermicompost is the end result of organic matter being consumed by earth worms. Also commonly known as worm castings, vermicompost adds much needed nutrients to the soil that have been depleted with ...