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Gardening corner: Focus shifts to holiday plants
As you cross off the last item on the fall garden list, another list may be forming. The ...
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Gardening corner: Extending the growing season all in the seed
The last tomato has been picked. Potatoes and carrots have been dug and put into storage. A gardeners ...
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Gardening corner: Shoo fly! Well, perhaps it’s best they do what they do
It’s not often an adult son (50ish) has the opportunity to criticize the reading choices of his mother ...
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Gardening corner: Three chores you should never do late in the season
According to information released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), since 1896 the average winter temperatures ...
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Gardening corner: Leave the leaves for birds to feed and rest upon
In May, I offered some suggestions for reducing spring chores, mainly eliminating tilling your garden soil. We are ...
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Gardening corner: Cutting ties with underperforming plants
You may think this seems like the cart before the horse approach to gardening but sometimes we need ...
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Gardening corner: Tomato advice — one can never get enough
It’s that time of summer when there seem to be more vegetable questions than there are answers. Most ...
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Gardening corner: Employ a hedge to buffer out city noise
Have you ever given a thought to the sounds in your life? A strange question that bears some ...
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‘Companion’ planting has its benefits, rooted in science
Isn’t it ironic how the old gardening concepts become new with more knowledge and the switching of outdated ...
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Gardening corner: Fruit or vegetable? It’s all in the seed
Tomatoes are the iconic “fruit of the Gods” in folklore. In Central Oregon gardens tomatoes are the bane ...
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