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The Practical Herbalist Garden How-to section contains a plethora of practical, organic and often easy procedures for creating and managing your garden.

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Harvest Your Own Rose Hips

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Harvest Your Own Rose Hips As autumn creeps into our backyards, the settling temperatures help develop the fruit of on our rosebushes. This fruit is a sweet treat called rose hips. Rose hips offer a generous dose of vitamin C and iron. Tools...

Creating the Snail-Free Garden

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Creating the Snail-Free Garden Gardens are full of life. Some of that life, like snails, is not good for the garden.The biggest snail invader in Oregon gardens is the Brown Garden Snail, which was originally imported to San Francisco in the 1850s...

Ripening Green Tomatoes

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How to Ripen Green Tomatoes Gardeners become desperate to salvage their crops as autumn lowers the thermostat. While the daytime temperatures are warm enough to ripen tomatoes, nighttime temperatures threaten developing fruit. These crops...

Creating the Wire Worm-Free Garden

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Creating the Wire Worm-Free Garden Wire Worm Damaged Radishes Wire worms love fleshy roots like potatoes, radishes, parsnips and carrots. They don't usually kill a plant but will leave a gardener's labor of love riddled with holes and...

Top 7 Reasons to Plant Oregon Grape in Your Garden

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Top 7 Reasons to Plant Oregon Grape in Your Garden Oregon Grape Offers Winter Interest Oregon's state flower has been seeing a resurgence of popularity in cultivated landscapes. This prickly green shrub was once difficult to find on...

Deer-Proofing Your Garden

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Deer-proofing Your Garden Deer are graceful creatures to observe in natural settings. The romance wears off when you see the damage they've raked through your flower beds. As human habitation spreads more thickly, the deer's natural predators are...

Chickens in the Garden

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Utilizing Chickens in the Garden Preparing new beds for spring planting is a lot of work on your own. Chickens are great helpers in the garden if you let them. Their little feet are built in rakes for clodded soil. The beds that I didn't let the...

Sweet Gum Seed Pods as Slug and Snail Repellant

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Sweetgum Seed Pods as Slug and Snail Repellent photo/Sue Sierralupe November and December is the time to gather organic slug and snail deterrent for next summer's garden. Autumn winds that rattled the sweetgum trees and loosened their...

Potato Towers: How To Make Vertical Garden Bed for Tubers

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Potato Tower How-to by Sue Sierralupe Gardening the city requires some ingenuity. Space is at a minimum. Potato Towers are easy to build garden beds that can house baking potatoes, new potatoes, sweet potatoes or yams. The taller your potato...

Garden Cloches: How To Make a Recycled Mini-Greenhouse

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Garden Cloches: How to Give Your Garden a Head Start by Sue Sierralupe This cloche was made from reused plastic bags, bamboo and leftover agricultural pipe (schedule 80). photo/Sue Sierralupe Spring weather in the Willamette Valley is...

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