Start Preparing for a Spring Vegetable Garden

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It’s time to start thinking about your Spring vegetable garden! Do you see what has landed in my mailbox? Yes, the vegetable garden seed magazines are arriving! I absolutely love looking through the seed magazines. I will probably thumb through […]

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Three Step Fall Containers

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Now that summer is creeping to a close you may want to begin thinking about your fall foliage. Many containers that you may already be using for summer can easily be revamped for fall. I (Litsa) snapped these three easy […]

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Gardening: Volunteer Pumpkins

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A few weeks ago I mentioned that we had volunteer vegetable plants growing. I knew that one of the plants was a type of squash but I was unsure on what type. This volunteer squash plant was growing beside the […]

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Tips for Healthy House Plants

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Do you have houseplants throughout your home? I (Litsa) have never had a roomful of houseplants but I love having a few houseplants interspersed through the living room, kitchen, & play/sun room. These few houseplants mainly decorate the areas by […]

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Foraging for Wild Huckleberries

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Huckleberries are currently in season in Central Virginia. We are fortunate to have a ton of wild huckleberry bushes in our yard. Most of the time, the critters grab up the huckleberries before we can collect them. However, there seem […]

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Garden Update: Tomatoes, Berries & Beans

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When the garden starts producing, it is pure joy! Every time I head to the garden and see fruit and vegetables ready to pick, a surge of happiness runs through me. It is just so cool to be able to […]

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How to Get Rid of Ants in the Garden

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When we were planting our vegetable garden this Spring, we came across an unusual amount of ants. It seemed that everywhere I dug, an ant nest was uncovered. There were a variety of ants too! From tiny to large and […]

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Gardening: Volunteer Plants

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One of my favorite parts of having a Spring vegetable garden is discovering volunteer plants. Every year we have volunteer plants popup. Most of the time we have volunteer tomato plants. Volunteer plants occur when seeds from dropped fruit or […]

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