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May15

Featured Garden: Fluttering Flower Garden

A flower garden in Westland, Michigan

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Westland, Michigan, Fluttering Flower Garden is a colorful and diverse, flower-filled garden.

May08

Featured Garden: Green Kathleen's Chicken Junction

A raised bed garden with chickens in Arlington, Texas

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Arlington, Texas, Green Kathleen's Chicken Junction is a raised garden featuring organic vegetables, chickens and rabbits.

May04

What Does Observing Lilacs Right Now...

...Have to do with the White House Next Year?

You're invited to observe lilacs this spring...for reasons you might not expect.

May01

Featured Garden: Gypsy Garden

A backyard flower and vegetable garden in Greencastle, Indiana

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Greencastle, Indiana, A Gypsy Garden is three gardens in one - producing veggies for the kitchen, flowers for cuttings and food for butterflies.

Apr24

Featured Garden: Artist-Run Container Garden

An artist's container farm in Chicago, Illinois

The Featured Garden series presents weekly editor's picks of gardens from YourGardenShow.com.

Located in Chicago, Illinois, the Artist-Run Urban Apartment Container Farm is a green-filled deck garden utilizing creativity to grow plants in a small space.

Apr18

Control Garden Pests the Natural Way

With these easy, organic solutions

Guest Blogger - Laurie Neverman

Like many home gardeners, Laurie started growing her own fruits and vegetables in part to avoid the toxic chemicals used on most commercial produce. Why put in all that time and effort to eat poison? These are Laurie's most used options to get rid of unwelcome garden pests.

Apr11

Feed the Bees, Harm the Bees?

A Citizen Science Update

YourGardenShow - Emmet Brady

As a continuing part of YourGardenShow's Citizen Science initiatives and support for the Great Sunflower Project, we will bring you a series of posts with breaking news about our pollinators, the bees.

In this Citizen Science Update, Emmet Brady reveals an ironic twist - the poisoning of the bees could come as a result of farmers and beekeepers trying to feed them.

Mar30

Support Bees with the Native Bee Perpetual Calendar

April Bee of the Month: Osmia lignaria

The “Garden Variety Native Bees of North America” perpetual calendar is both a guide to some of our more common native bees and a gardening calendar that never goes out of date. This month's featured calendar bee is Osmia lignaria (Mason Bee).

Mar20

It's the First Day of Spring?

We thought it was already here!

YourGardenShow - Kate Hoppe

Even as the Northern Hemisphere ushers in the first day of spring today, March 20th, 2012, many across the United States have seemingly bypassed winter altogether.

Mar12

3 Easy Tips to Extend Your Growing Season

Guest Blogger - Laurie Neverman

Guest Blogger Laurie Neverman provides northern growers with her three favorite techniques to get a jump start on the growing season.

Mar09

Why Grow it Forward?

A special message from the founders of YourGardenShow and Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Co.

While Grow it Forward is an heirloom seed contest complete with some great prizes, the message and effort are so much more.

Feb22

How to Build a Cold Frame

And get a jump on spring planting

Kate Hoppe

Cold frames are a great way to keep plant starts warm while it's still too cold to plant directly in the ground and to harden off plants prior to planting. But why spend $100 on a cold frame when you can build your own for much less?

Feb14

Plant the Seeds of Love this Valentine's Day

What better a gift of love than one that keeps on giving?

Feb10

"Grow it Forward" in Heirloom Gardens Across North America

Plant heirlooms and help preserve our agricultural heritage

Join in with fellow gardeners across the U.S. and Canada to preserve the legacy and diversity of heirloom plants by “Growing it Forward."

We're launching an heirloom seed contest with some great prizes!

Feb03

Building Hardscapes Around Trees

Considerations to help your trees thrive

Guest Blogger - Robert Kourik

In the building of hardscapes, such as parking lots, sidewalks or outdoor patios, due consideration of trees in the landscape is needed to prevent damage or even death. Robert Kourik offers some guidelines to allow for the adequate space needed for root growth near hardscape areas.

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  • Kathleen has some wonderful Ideas!
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