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Spooky or silly? How do you carve your jack-o’-lantern? Whether you go for fun or fright, jack-o’-lantern carving is a family-friendly way to mark the season. Have you ever wondered how the tradition got started? As with much folklore, it…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening Tags: Author:Annette, Gourds, Halloween, Holidays, Pumpkin
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What did you have for breakfast? If your plate included toast with jam, fresh berries, granola with nuts, coffee and juice, you had a nice balanced breakfast, right? Take away everything that needs a pollinator and your left with only dry…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Annette, Insects, Native Plants, Pollinators
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Raise your hand if you love butterflies. Wow, that’s a lot of hands. It’s hard to resist the fluttering appeal of butterflies with their delicate wings, zig-zag flight and graceful presence in our gardens. So, why resist? Revel in butterflies’ visits…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Annette, Butterflies, Caterpillar, monarch
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Hot enough for ya? It’s only July, but we’ve had more than our share of relentless heat. Have you ever wondered how plants cope with heat? It’s not as if they can turn on their air conditioners or pour themselves…
Read MoreCategory: Food Gardening, Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Annette, Climate Change, drought, heat, Native Plants
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Boonsboro, MD – Ladybugs.Lacewings.Ground beetles.Wasps. What do all these insects have in common? They are the good guys, the beneficial insects that help keep bad bugs at bay in our gardens. Nine out of 10 insects are beneficial. Yes, most…
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If only I’d known. How many times have we slapped our forehead at our gardening follies and mumbled that under our breath. So today, I am paying homage to the lessons my garden has taught me. Soil is god. Healthy…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Annette, Chemicals, Insects, Soil, Tips
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I think that I shall never seeA poem lovely as a tree. Joyce Kilmer I love trees. The wind whispering through a grove of pines. An oak’s limbs raised to the sky in winter. The pink pom-poms of a cherry…
Read MoreCategory: Lawn & Garden Tags: Author:Annette, trees and shrubs