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Seven Practical Gifts for Gardeners

We’re ten days away from Christmas Eve. It’s time to start shopping if you haven’t done so already, and I wanted to offer a few suggestions for finding practical gift for gardeners this season. Holiday Gift Ideas for Gardeners The Best Weed Tool Over 20 years ago, CobraHead sent me a prototype of their hand ...

Know your enemies in the weed wars

This week my mother was bemoaning not sprinkling a pre-emergent in her garden earlier in the season. (Of course, this was because she flew out to visit us!) I asked her what weeds are her biggest problem, but she wasn’t quite sure. This is an important piece of the puzzle. If you're going to gain ...