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3 days ago |
au.lifehacker.com | Amanda Blum
June is a cusp month in gardening: All the seedlings you’ve nurtured all spring, from tomatoes to onions, have finally left the nest and are going into the ground. After you breathe the sigh of relief at the end of May to simply enjoy the landscape for a moment, it is time to pick up the seed box again. All the mid-summer vegetables need to be seeded, and in some cases, you can luck out and direct sow outside.
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4 days ago |
au.lifehacker.com | Amanda Blum
I remember the moment I reached for the knife: I was attempting to divide a clump of irises with rhizomes so thick that my shovel refused to cut through them. I thought to myself, “a serrated knife would cut right through these”—and after a moment of reflection, couldn’t come up with a reason not to do precisely that. And just like that, a bread knife that saw no action in the kitchen became one of my most valued garden tools.
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4 days ago |
yahoo.com | Amanda Blum
I remember the moment I reached for the knife: I was attempting to divide a clump of irises with rhizomes so thick that my shovel refused to cut through them. I thought to myself, “a serrated knife would cut right through these”—and after a moment of reflection, couldn’t come up with a reason not to do precisely that. And just like that, a bread knife that saw no action in the kitchen became one of my most valued garden tools.
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5 days ago |
au.lifehacker.com | Amanda Blum
If you need a reminder that summer has finally landed, berries are here to remind you. Home gardens are spotted with tiny colored jewels of strawberries, currants, and oso berries. Cherries, raspberries and blueberries are beginning to blush with color as they ripen, just as the peonies and irises fade. Peas are popping off of tall vines, nasturtiums have begun to sprawl across garden beds, and spring-planted spinach and chard are sky high.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Amanda Blum
This summer is predicted to be another scorcher, with record breaking temperatures across the U.S. beginning in June. While traditional summer crops do require heat, which is why we wait for summer to grow them, extreme heat waves or heat domes are a different thing altogether. Plants have a series of behaviors they'll display when under heat pressure. They can wilt, which is what it sounds like, due to water stress.
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