Tag: Winter To-Do
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Front Yard Makeover — Native Plant Edition: 9 Steps to Planting a Tree
Our retaining wall is up. ✅ Rain garden and river (trench) dug. ✅ Mulch applied (i.e. mess hidden). ✅ Now: Tree planting time! 🌳 The focal point for our small front yard will be our Vine Maple (Acer circinatum). I wanted a small deciduous native tree; that way we get summer shade and winter light.…
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Super Simple Soil Testing Guide
A beautiful flower peeping from green leaves. A sweet carrot. A fragrant clove of garlic. This is where gardening begins for most of us. In learning about the plants we cultivate, we inevitably end up getting the real dirt. Then as our understanding grows, dirt becomes soil. Soil becomes sand, silt, and clay. Sand, silt,…
