Autumn typically signals the end of home grown vegetables, from the garden, but with a little ingenuity, you can harvest garden fresh produce, well into the winter months. My Central Pennsylvania garden continues to supply fresh vegetables during the fall and winter, when most gardeners in my growing region are content to dream about next summer’s bounty. Read on, to discover simple tricks, that will fortify your garden against the onslaught of frigid weather.

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How To Have Fresh Vegetables From Your Garden All Winter

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My Dad died on Monday morning the 4th February. This was the end to a long illness and many trips down to Durban to visit him in hospital. Things are not back to normal yet, so rather than let my blog suffer, I have asked a few other garden experts to contribute articles to my blog. This week, I will run articles by them. This one is on Gardening Tips, which is appropriate to my blog name.

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21 Gardening Tips

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Having your own garden is always blissful, as you watch the fruits of your labour come to fruition, either as a herb to be used in food, or as a flower to enhance the appearance of the surrounds. Plants and flowers provide us with fresh, clean air, helping our planet be a better and cleaner place. They achieve more for us than other people do. Well, now you can do your bit, with an aeroponics indoor garden and here are the benefits, that you and the nature will get from it.

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How To Start An Indoors Aeroponics Garden

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In deciding on the site, for the home vegetable garden, it is good to dispose once and for all, of the old idea, that the garden “patch” must be an ugly spot in the home surroundings. If thoughtfully planned, carefully planted and thoroughly cared for, it may be made a beautiful and harmonious feature of the general scheme, lending a touch of comfortable homeliness, that no shrubs, borders, or beds can ever produce.

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How To Start A Vegetable Garden

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Most people will agree, that orchids are the most beautiful flowers and most would agree, that they would like to have orchids around their home, to add to the beauty.  These delicate flowers come in so many different colours, but all of them are exquisite.  The orchids seem so delicate, that most people would never contemplate growing these magnificent flowers, on their own.  Now indoor orchid gardening has become easier, for people without special gardening talents. 

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How To Grow Orchids Indoors

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In the past, there have been only a couple different kinds of apple trees, that you could buy. But now, thanks to the wonders of genetic engineering, if you want to buy an apple tree, you are able to choose between many different types of apples and flavours. Here, I will outline five different, popular types of apples, that you can consider for your first apple tree.

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Some Varieties Of Apple Trees

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Having a steady supply of fresh fruit, from your backyard, is quite a nice thing. Many people strive to attain this dream. However, many people fail to realize just how easy it is to obtain a fairly serious infestation of worms, in their fruit. I can’t think of anything more unpleasant, than biting into an apple, off of the tree you’ve slaved over for so long, only to find that you have not been diligent enough, with your pesticides.

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How To Combat Worms In Your Fruit

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If you are lucky enough to have some fruit trees, like a cherry tree, in your yard, I am sure I don’t need to tell you, how much enjoyment can come from them. Just eating the delicious fruit, that spawned from your tree, is a rewarding experience in itself. Looking out your back window and seeing a magnificent, glorious cherry tree, is also rewarding. Most people are impressed, just by the fact that you have a cherry tree, because they are usually thought of, by non-gardeners, as some sort of exotic plant.

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How To Stop Birds Damaging Your Fruit Trees

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One of the most frustrating things, that can possibly happen, to someone who has slaved for hours and hours, to grow a fruit tree, is the unexplainable barrenness that can sometimes occur, when there should be a plethora of fresh fruit. I know this from personal experience. My neighbours all consider me the gardening guru, because of my extensive knowledge and my continued activity in the garden, but this is only because gardening has been my passion, for years and years and like a sponge, I have accumulated so much information in my mind.

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How To Deal With Barren Fruit Trees

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I have always wondered who ever determined what was a weed and what was a flower. There are some delightful looking weeds that grow in the garden even when we don’t want them to be there. I guess the best explanation of what represents a weed, and what represents a flower is, a weed is a plant that is growing somewhere that it shouldn’t be.

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How To Tell The Weeds From The Plants

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