Garden Tools: tips, resources and reviews for gardeners
This space features reviews of good books or articles, plant societies or web pages, or other timely tips: tools that gardeners can use to grow a better garden
Number of Garden Tools: 192
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| Spring is the time to prune Group 3 clematis back to 1 foot tall. These clematis bloom in late summer/fall. Read the why and how of pruning other groups of clematis on the web at the Royal Horticultural Society website. | ||
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| Season | Spring | |
| Date | 2003-03-12 | |
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| Wondering what's the best time of year to sow your cilantro seeds or plant onion sets? The Maritime Northwest Garden Guide: Planting Calendar for Year-Round Organic Gardening by Seattle Tilth defines a complete time-line for sowing a wide range of edibles and flowers. Also included are a number of excellent articles on organic gardening techniques, like summer cover crops and recipes for preventing powdery mildew. The book is available from the Seattle Tilth Association in Wallingford, 206-633-0451 or at their website. | ||
| Keywords | Vegetable seedlings, Sowing, Garden calendar | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-03-05 | |
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| Kitchen Garden from Great Britain is the only magazine devoted to growing fruits and vegetables. The glossy monthly magazine includes growing tips from readers, articles on growing techniques and new cultivars, plus a monthly feature on small-scale chicken rearing. Subscribe for a mere $73.00 dollars a year at their website, or read it for free at the Miller Library. | ||
| Keywords | Vegetable gardening, Fruit--Care and maintenance, Chickens | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-03-05 | |
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| Plant your peas on George Washington's birthday! Snow, snap, shelling and sweet peas for flowers can all be sowed outside now. Don't forget to get a packet of Rhizobia bacteria inoculant to help your pea plants make their own nitrogen fertilizer from the soil. Inoculant can be purchased at nurseries where seeds are sold. You can also use the inoculant when you sow bean seeds in June. Read all about growing perfect peas online: All About Peas, and Ensure Your Bounty of Peas. | ||
| Keywords | Fabaceae (Pea family) | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-02-26 | |
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| A good book to help those of us living on tiny urban lots, or in the even smaller spaces of condominiums and townhouses is Big Ideas for Northwest Small Gardens by Marty Wingate (Sasquatch, 2003). It guides the city gardener through design consideration and appropriate plant selection. One chapter answers common questions city gardeners have, such as "Can I have a wildlife garden?" Color photography by Jacqueline Koch helps make this informative book a pleasure to read. | ||
| Keywords | City gardening | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-02-19 | |
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| Once you've spent a pretty penny on a new hellebore you will want to protect your investment by learning exactly what they need to thrive. Read The Gardener's Guide to Growing Hellebores by Graham Rice and Elizabeth Strangman (Timber Press, 1993) for details on cultivation, propagation and essays on hellebore species and hybrids. Color pictures will whet your appetite for more of these delightful winter bloomers. | ||
| Keywords | Helleborus | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-02-05 | |
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| For a free introduction to starting seeds look to Thompson and Morgan's Guide to Germination. You will find the secrets to growing plants from seed including details on pre-treatments, coping with tiny seeds and hardening off your seedlings for life outdoors. | ||
| Keywords | Seeds | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-01-30 | |
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| Starting plants from seed is a fine way to save money, but it requires a bit of patience and commitment to see the seeds through germination to planting out weeks or months later. The book Gardener's A-Z Guide To Growing Flowers From Seed To Bloom by Eileen Powell (Storey, 2004) will arm you with the knowledge you need to successfully transform tiny seeds into healthy flowering plants. Entries for individual plants detail planting depth, recommended temperature and the best time to transplant outside. | ||
| Keywords | Seeds, Seedlings--Transplanting | |
| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-01-29 | |
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| If you prefer quality over novelty look to these resources to discover award-winning plants:
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| Season | All Season | |
| Date | 2003-01-22 | |
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| If you feel emboldened after successfully growing a pot of paperwhites, why not keep the indoor flower display going through winter. For inspiration and good instructions read Forcing, etc: the indoor gardener's guide to bringing bulbs, branches and houseplants into bloom by Katherine Whiteside (Workman, 1999) Included are details on forcing bulbs and flowering shrubs, in addition to techniques for propagating house plants and tender perennials like coleus. The color photos will stimulate your enthusiasm. | ||
| Keywords | Forcing, Bulbs | |
| Season | Winter | |
| Date | 2003-01-15 | |
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