Traditionally Basil is associated with Italian cooking and with good reason. It is often found in pasta sauces, is the prime ingredient in Pesto and even has found its way on to pizza. There are...
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Perhaps the most popular plant that people grow in their vegetable garden are tomatoes. Tomatoes versatility in the kitchen contributes to this as it is used in some of the most popular...
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Growing Cannas is a little like bringing a piece of the tropics to your own garden. If you live in USDA growing zones 8-10 than Cannas can be treated as perennials but for the rest of the country...
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After gaining some experience growing plants in general during my teens my gardening interest seemed to gravitate toward flowers as an adult. The more I read and learned about this aspect of...
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When you’ve finished planting your flower beds and you can’t fit another container on your porch or deck it’s time to do what I call “going vertical”. An often...
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Container gardening can be an awful lot like a chicken recipe (My apologies to our readers who are Vegetarians. Please don’t hold it against me!). Think of all of the different ways that...
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This is a quote by Claude Monet and this is how we feel after attending Day 1 of the 2014 California Spring Trials.  Two of the biggest trends we observed coming out of the trials are colors...
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Congratulations Wildcat fans! Your team made it to "The Final Four"! Get creative, celebrate your team's accomplishment and enjoy that memory even after the tournament ends. Check out our...
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