Wildflower Meadow Gardening
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So you want to create the eye-catching color and diversity of a wildflower meadow. Unfortunately, just throwing out a few seeds won’t produce the desired results. Natural meadows evolve over many years, adapting to environmental conditions and developing intricate associations between plants, animals, and microorganisms. A planted wildflower meadow can rival nature and deliver low-maintenance advantages in time, but only if it is established correctly and modeled after surrounding natural plant communities. These recommendations are for establishing a wildflower meadow in an open, sunny, welldrained area.
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Benefits of Gardening
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Americans face a lot of stress factors including constant bombardment with information about environmental issues, economic concerns, health worries, and community strife. Gardening is a tool to abate life’s stress, enhance the environment, develop individuals, and build communities.
Website: www.cmg.colostate.edu | Filesize: 171kb
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HOME VEGETABLE GARDENING
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Gardening means different things to different people. Thousands view gardening as a hobby, a relaxing escape from the pressures of an urban environment. For these people, the food produced may be almost secondary. Growing fresh vegetables, herbs, or fruits provides a great sense of joy and accomplishment. A vegetable garden can also reduce the family’s food budget, and it can be a source of hard-to-find vegetables such as kohlrabi, Chinese cabbage, horseradish, salsify, and pak choi. One of the main reasons that people garden is that vegetables from the supermarket cannot compare in taste, quality, or freshness with vegetables grown in the home garden.
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Short Season Vegetable Garden
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Pacific Northwest gardeners may find the growing season where they live too short to grow certain vegetables. Air and soil temperatures may be lower than optimal for plant growth. Untimely frosts or snow, combined with low humidity and excessive wind, make it necessary for the home gardener to use special practices to get the best production. The techniques outlined in this publication will be essential to grow most vegetable crops.
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Home Vegetable Gardening
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A well-tended garden can supply you and your family with a variety of nutritious, healthful vegetables to be enjoyed fresh or preserved for later use. When space is limited, a plentiful supply of such crops as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and okra can be grown on a few properly cared for plants.
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Organic Vegetable Gardening
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Successful vegetable gardens are not accidental. They are the results of planning, constant care, and the will to make things grow. Among the many things a vegetable garden may offer toward a satisfying experience are fresh air, exercise, sunshine, knowledge, supplemental income, mental therapy, and fresh food, rich in vitamins and minerals, harvested at the best stage of maturity.
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RAISED BED GARDENING
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Raised bed gardening has become a popular gardening practice. Smaller lots and families have led to the downsizing of planting areas and the amount of produce needed.
Website: www.oznet.ksu.edu | Filesize: 212kb
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