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  • Fall Planting – Onions

    Aug 26, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Tried to Grow Onions and Failed – Here’s the Secret to Success Fall Planting – Onions As gardeners we have come to think of autumn as the end of the gardening season. It is anything but the end. Autumn, for each of you, represents the beginning of next year’s gardening season, and there is no better way to begin next year’s season than by planting onions, shallots and elephant garlic. Today, we are going to discuss onions, a vegetable that can or should be planted in the fall. Onions can be planted in the fall for a mid-summer crop. They can also be planted in the spring for a late autumn or early winter crop. Onions are one of the most important home garden crops available for cultivation today.

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  • Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall

    Aug 25, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Bulbs, Garden Tools, Growing Instructions, onions, Perennials, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    Basket of Shallots Shallots, For Best Results Plant These Little Buggers in the Fall Many of our winter hardy vegetables – onion and elephant garlic sets, parsnips, salsify, etc. - can be planted in both the spring or the fall, but to be really successful with shallots, you should try to plant them in the fall. Shallots are sold as sets, but unlike onion sets where each ‘set’ is a baby onion and will produce a single mature onion, a shallot ‘set’ can be a nearly mature single shallot and this shallot will produce 4-6 mature shallots. From a single sack of 6 shallots you should expect to get 25-40 shallots. Shallot Sets Buy Now for Fall Planting Shallots benefit greatly from being planted in soil that has been amended with Rock

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  • Pole Beans Belong in Every Vegetable Garden-Here are 6 of the Greatest

    Apr 30, 2019 Categories: Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized, Vegetables

    The Heirloom Scarlet Runner Pole Beans in Thomas Jefferson’s Hanging Gardens at Monticello Pole Beans Belong in Every Vegetable Garden- Here are 6 of the Greatest Visit THE LEESBURG FLOWER & GARDEN FESTIVAL site for details Visit THE SHEEP & WOOL site for details Beans, corn and squash are the quintessential American crops – the trinity of vegetables – The Three Sisters. Of these three sisters, perhaps beans, are now the most pervasive crop originally exported from the New World to Europe, Africa Asia and Australia. There are many types of beans: bush, pole, runner, half runner, wax, shell, cowpeas, etc., but in today’s America maybe the most relevant type of bean is the pole bean. For more than a century now, pole beans have been scorned by commercial and home gardeners because

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  • How Zinnias Were Used To Communicate The Unspeakable During The Victorian Era

    Apr 12, 2019 Categories: Annuals, Container Plants, Growing Instructions, Pollinators, Seeding the Future, Uncategorized

    The King of Purple Zinnias – Royal Purple How Zinnias Were Used To Communicate The Unspeakable During The Victorian Era WE’RE BACK!!! Thank all of you who visited our booths during the 2019 Indoor Flower Show Season, and a special thanks from me, personally, to those of you who cameto thank me for these newsletters. You have no idea how powerful the impact of a simple expression of thanks can be. Now that spring is really underway in most parts of the country, we are going to publish our newsletters every two weeks. It is time for all of you gardeners to be outside with your hands in the soil and your hearts with your plants. What precious little free time you have should be spent enjoying your gardens not staring at

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  • Achillea


    Mar 01, 2016 Categories: Growing Instructions

    Achillea
 - A Little History and Some Growing Instructions Achillea also known as Yarrow or Sneezewort to 19th century Americans is a vigorous and hardy perennial native to Europe, Asia and the Americas. There are white, yellow, red and pink varieties. According to Breck, in his 1851 book, The Flower Garden, the pink species was native to the United States. In general, the plant was known for its wound healing abilities, but the red variety was prized for bladder troubles and ulcers. Achillea is a very old plant. Pollen has been found at the burial sites of Neanderthals which would mean that it has been used by humans for at least 60,000 years. For the Native Americans, the plant was an important member of the medicines used

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