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How To Help Your Houseplants Survive A Cold Winter

It’s midwinter here in Chicago; the real dog days. For months now green grass, blue skies, and lush landscaping have been replaced by bare cement and gray skies. If you live in the northern hemisphere, and are mesmerized by your houseplants lately, you are not alone. Our eyes are green-starved! Plants Have Winter Blues Too ...

Peppers and the Victory Garden 2.0

Like I did in my recent Tomatoes and the Victory Garden 2.0 post, I’m riffing off of the National Garden Bureau’s continuing series of articles, their latest being a Q&A with their NGB Experts that is all about peppers. The Victory Garden 2.0 project, as I’ve said before, is aimed at helping new pandemic-prompted gardeners ...

Tomatoes and the Victory Garden 2.0

Tomatoes is next topic in the new Victory Garden 2.0 blog series from the National Garden Bureau (NGB). The series has become so popular and so needed by new gardeners that it has grown in length (way beyond the original four posts!) and also content type. The latest edition about all new gardeners’ favorite veggie—tomatoes—is ...